Donald Mackay

Born: Abt 1776, , Inverness-shire, Scotland
Marriage (1): Cordelia Harriss on 23 Mar 1816 in St. George, Bloomsbury, Camden, Middlesex, England
Died: Dec 1851, Paddington, Middlesex, England aged about 75

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Cordelia Harriss

Rev. Sween Macdonald Mackay M. A.+

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/13027698/person/1399280120

And

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=UK1851Index_ga&h=550098&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=8860

And

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1851&h=6081881&ti=5538&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t13027698_p1399280120_kpidz0q3d1399280120z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid

And

He was possibly born at Snizort on the Isle of Skye. However his marriage record in 1816 records him as a bachelor not at widower. I am reasonably sure he is not the Donald Mackay in this record.
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/22629021/person/1811216997?ssrc=

bullet Death Notes:

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/16964530/person/443275841

And

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=4nJ5j6mGuT1TmieBZp0vfQ&scan=1

And

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/16964530/person/443275841?ssrc=

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Children. They had 7 children

1) Cordelia Mackay (1817 \endash 1870)
2) Donald Mackay (1818 \endash 1853)
3) Sween Macdonald Mackay (1824 \endash 1906)
4) Julia Mackay (1825 \endash 1905)
5) George Mackenzie Mackay (1827 \endash 1893)
6) Allan Douglas Mackay (1830 \endash 1876)
7) Ellen Frances Mackay (1832 \endash )

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/13027698/person/1399280122

And

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/16964530/person/443275841

• Web Based Info. https://www.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpilot.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Ftrk%3A%2Ffsrs%2Frr_948654748%2Fp1&hash=HloWXpZgU9zB10k5M56iYku8TUc%253D

And

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.2/9C97-Z5B/p1

• General Comment. Donald Mackay (1776-1851) came from Inverness in 1801 with a recommendation from James Grant, provost of Inverness, which gained him employment, first as an overseer with a Mr Gordon. He left this for a position as clerk with the merchants William Mackenzie & Co, principally because of the higher salary of £300 rather than £100.

He then bought two slaves, for £200 on 12 months credit, from Simon Fraser of Belladrum, and hired them out for £50 to Patrick Grant 'having experience of his humane treatment and knowledge of Negroes beyond what one can hardly belief for so young a Planter'. Grant had managed Mr Gordon's property for 12 months but was now bound for Essequebo with 'his ten Negroes and mine' to enter into a partnership in a wood cutting business.

By September 1802 Mackay's employer had provided him with credit for the purchase of '10 Negroes at a very moderate price' which he added to those he already hired out. Mackenzie & Co wound up their business in 1806 but by this time Mackay's income of £400 from hiring out his slaves was greater than his salary \endash and, as his board and lodgings were provided, he had probably paid off the cost of buying them.

In May 1811 he purchased a sugar estate, Reliance in Essequibo, with George Mackenzie, a partner in the task gang with Mackay for some years. The estate had 114 slaves and was bought, on credit, for £25,000. They were to pay for this by shipping 250,000 lbs of sugar each year to Robert & William Pulseford of London, until the capital and interest were paid off. Mackay estimated that they would, in fact, produce 500,000 lbs annually.

Mackay returned to England in 1815 and married Cordelia Harriss (1793-1854) the following year. In 1833, when it was clear that slaves would be freed, he embarked for Demerara 'driven to this necessity by the unprecedented spoliation of West India property by the British Government; an act of so villanous a character as could only be expected from the most lawless and despotic Government that ever cursed any Age or Country'. He subsequently claimed compensation of over £24,000 for 467 slaves.

In 1851, aged 75, he was living at Calloper House, Watford, Hertfordshire and died later that year. His eldest son, Donald, died three years later. Of his six other children, the three boys became a solicitor, a doctor and an Anglican clergyman, while the three girls married a doctor, an Anglican clergyman and the son of a solicitor.

http://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp?pageid=223621

• Census: UK, 1851. http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8860/HRTHO107_1714_1714-0635/6081881?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3ddonald%26gsfn_x%3dNIC%26gsln%3dmackay%26gsln_x%3dXO%26cpxt%3d1%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3diof%26cp%3d11%26mssng0%3dcordelia%26mssng0_x%3d1%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d6081881%26recoff%3d6%2b17%2b18%2b83%26db%3duki1851%26indiv%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

And

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=UK1851Index_ga&h=550098&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=8860

• Health. In the UK Census of 1851 he is recorded as being blind.
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8860/HRTHO107_1714_1714-0635/6081881?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3ddonald%26gsfn_x%3dNIC%26gsln%3dmackay%26gsln_x%3dXO%26cpxt%3d1%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3diof%26cp%3d11%26mssng0%3dcordelia%26mssng0_x%3d1%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d6081881%26recoff%3d6%2b17%2b18%2b83%26db%3duki1851%26indiv%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

Donald married Cordelia Harriss, daughter of John Harriss and Margaret Jones, on 23 Mar 1816 in St. George, Bloomsbury, Camden, Middlesex, England. (Cordelia Harriss was born on 21 Jun 1792 in London, Middlesex, England, christened on 16 Sep 1792 in London, London, England and died in Mar 1854 in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=Donald&gsfn_x=XO&gsln=Mackay&gsln_x=XO&msgdy=1820&msgdy_x=1&cpxt=1&catBucket=rstp&uidh=iof&msgdp=5&cp=11&mssng0=Cordelia&mssng0_x=1&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=2519782&recoff=6+7+24&db=LMAmarriages&indiv=1

And

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1623&iid=31280_195172-00165&fn=Donald&ln=Mackay&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2519782

One of the witnesses was John Harriss possibly her father.
The other is Ellis John Broughton. He is probably a relation of Ann Broughton who married Thomas Burford in this tree,

And

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=Cordelia&gsfn_x=XO&gsln=Harriss&gsln_x=XO&cpxt=1&catBucket=rstp&uidh=iof&cp=11&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=711931&recoff=4+5&db=pallotm&indiv=1

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