Bob Mackay - Mackays

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 his minimal surface models can be browsed and bought from Shapeways. 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).