Mackay Family Links
Mackay Family Genealogy, Robert Lindsay Mackay
My grandfather spent the greater part of his retirement researching his Mackay Family Genealogy. This site holds records of many hundreds of relatives and includes some splendid reconstructions of their lives and many great photographs.In around 1975, Mary Kille made tape recordings of Robert and Margaret as follows:
- Tape 1: MBM reciting Tam O' Shanter, by Robert Burns (15 mins).
- Tape 2: The McAlisters of Auchencarroch and McAlister Donald (45 mins).
- Tape 3: RLM's account of his ancestry and life up to 1918 (30 mins).
- Tape 4a: MBM's account of her life (30 mins).
- Tape 4b: RLM and MBM describing the life of China Bill and Donald Murray the inventor (30 mins).
- Tape 5a:
Christmas 1975 (40 mins).
- RLM: George Matheson, his toast to Robert Burns. The Highwayman. The Revenge. Puck's Song.
- MBM: The Thistle. To a Haggis. Robert Burns.
- RLM: Never ask for a kiss. George McKinlay.
- Cora: My Love's like a red, red rose. Robert Burns. London under Bombardment. When Father papered the parlour (song).
- RLM: The funeral of Kirsty McSporran at Strontean - Recollection. John asks RLM for the definition of a Highlander.
- Tape 5b:
Christmas Day at Parklands, Wolverhampton. (40 mins).
- Toasts by Adrian and Cathy.
- Adrian and Cathy: Bad Sir Brian Botany and Old Father William.
- Queen's speech for 1975.
- MBM: New Year's Days at Woodbourne. About 1905-8. How Horatius kept the bridge.
- RLM:
- An April son (Lance Corp. G.C. Mitchell re. 1915.
- Knee deep in grasses, fetlock deep in dew. George McKinlay 1916.
- The Exile. George McKinlay, 1909 (killed Somme, 1916).
- No coward soul is mine. Emily Bronte.
- Last week went to Birmingham University for lecture by GMM.
- Sent letter to Alison on the subject of poetry.
- Captain Webb from Dawley. John Betjeman.
- From: A Shropshire Lad. A.E. Houseman.
Sheila Mackay Genealogy
We know rather less of my mother's ancestors than we might like, especially on her father's side, but what is known is in the Family Tree of Sheila Thorne Hague.Alan Mackay
My father's Wikipedia entry includes a certain amount on the Quasicrystal history and has links to various work and obituaries.His funeral was on 8th April 2025. There is a Video of the Service, Service Text (or as a Word document), and Words of Condolence (also as a Word document). Alan's great-grandchild Marcus Bunton composed and played music specially for the funeral.
The Sho Takahashi web site is a showcase of the Curved World of Sho Takahashi. See also pages on Roger Penrose and Donald Booth.
Mary Kille
Here is Mary's Three Careers autobiography with her account of a medical life in Anesthesia, Family Planning and Sexual Assault. (Original WORD format document).Mary was interviewed in 2007 by Rob Willis for the Australian National Archives Project, conversing on Anesthesia, Family Planning and Sexual Assault: Part One and Part Two (an hour each).
Mary has written an account of the Mackay Clan history and her immediate ancestors, including a description of MBM and RLM's experiences of the two world wars: With a Spoonful of Medicine. There is also the original Word version if that is preferred.
Mary has also collated the letters of Gilmour Ewing Brown, a mining engineer, whose travels through South America and the Far East before the first world war are a facinating read: The Journeyings of Gilmour Ewing Brown. Also the Original Word version.