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  Clan MACKAY
Donald, the son of Morgan, married the daughter of MacNeil of Gigha on the Kintyre coast, and from the son of this pair, named Aodh, the clan derives its patronymic of MacAodh, or MacKay.
In 1628, Sir Donald Mackay was raised to the peerage of Lord Reay by Charles I. His grandson, Colonel Aenean Mackay of the Scotch-Dutch Brigade, married the heiress of the Baron van Haefton.
The Mackays suffered badly in the Strathnaver clearances between 1815 and 1818 and finally in 1829 the Reay estate was sold to the Sutherland family and in 1875 the chiefship passed to Baron Mackay van Ophermett who became 10th Lord Reay.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Donald Mackay (13 September 1933 - 15 July 1977), was an Australian anti-drugs campaigner who came to fame in 1977 through the circumstances of his presumed murder.
Mackay was born in Griffith and raised in Sydney.
Mackay's disappearance shocked the nation and many believed a gangland figure, Robert Trimbole, was responsible for the apparent contract style killing.
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 Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mackay was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh and at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated LLB and LLM, and at the University of Virginia, where he graduated LLM.
Mackay served as a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board from 1989 to 1995.
He was created a life peer in 1995, as Baron Mackay of Drumadoon, of Blackwaterfoot in the District of Cunninghame, and became a Privy Counsellor in 1996.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Mackay,_Lord_Mackay_of_Drumadoon   (255 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Donald Mackay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Donald Mackay, born and raised in Griffith, New South Wales, was an Australian politician from 1973 to 1976, and an anti-drugs campaigner.
Donald Mackay's son Paul is a councillor and runs the family furniture store.
Unfortunately for Mackay, at the trial of the men arrested, his name was read out during evidence, identifying him as the whistleblower.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Donald-Mackay   (1134 words)

  
 Donald Mackay and Mary Currie
Donald was the seventh child of William and Janet, and some six years older than my father.
Donald had a pleasant twinkle in his eyes, and that was inherited by his two sons.
Alas, mary Currie came from a family with coughs, and she died early, to be followed not long after by her husband Donald, from cancer of the stomach.
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 Trent University News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mackay retired as a full-time faculty member in Environmental and Resource Studies and Chemistry in July 2002, but continues his research and the supervision of three graduate students, as director of the CEMC.
Mackay was the first Canadian to receive the prestigious Honda Award for his work in Eco-Technology and the development of leading edge 'Mackay Models' in 2001.
Mackay's research is to contribute to "green chemistry" or "eco-chemistry" through the improved design and use of chemicals of commerce in which environmental issues are more fully evaluated.
www.trentu.ca /news/pressreleases/040319dmackay.html   (540 words)

  
 Clan Chiefs
Donald's son, Iye, was murdered along with his grandson, Donald, in the castle of Dingwall, 1370, by Nicholas Sutherland of Duffus, brother of the fifth Earl of Sutherland.
Donald was at the battle of Solway Moss 20, and returned to Edinburgh with the king, and was granted lands, forfeited to the crown, by charter, on 28 November 1542.
By her he had two sons, Donald and John-Beg, but because the marriage was within the forbidden degree of consanguinity, Donald was prevented by Canon Law from succeeding to the inheritance.
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 The Lords Reay
Exemplary among the exploits of the Mackay clansmen was the defence of the Pass of Oldenburg.
Donald, 1st Lord Reay, remained loyal to Charles I, opposing the Covenanters, and was a leader in the defence of Newcastle during the siege of 1644:
Donald Mackay died in February, 1649, in Denmark, and his body was returned to Strathnaver to be buried.
www.magma.ca /~mmackay/reay.html   (1223 words)

  
 Trent University News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Trent University's Dr. Donald Mackay, professor emeritus, has received Canada's highest honour for lifetime achievement in his appointment to the Order of Canada, as announced yesterday by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada.
Mackay, the founding director of the Canadian Environmental Modelling Centre (CEMC) at Trent, has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada and is among 102 new appointments, including 33 Officers.
Mackay's research has augmented the study of environmental science in the Trent community and around the world," she said.
www.trentu.ca /news/pressreleases/040128dmackay.html   (521 words)

  
 UBC Archives - Donald MacKay - Description
Donald Copeland Gibson MacKay was born in Barrie, Ontario and completed a B.A. (1929) and M.A. (1930) at Queen's University and his Pd.D. at Stanford University (1934).
Mackay then taught marine studies in zoology at the University of Connecticut, Stanford University and the University of Hawaii.
MacKay joined UBC's Dept. of Zoology in 1946 and the following year moved to the Dept. of Philosophy and Psychology as an assistant professor of Psychology.
www.library.ubc.ca /archives/u_arch/mackay.html   (343 words)

  
 Donald Mackay's Descendants - dmag03.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Donald Mackay was born on 11 Nov 1866 in, Dornoch, Sutherland.
Thomas Mackay was born in 1875/1876 in, Dornoch, Sutherland.
Donald Ross was born on 18 Oct 1857 in Ardshave, Dornoch Parish, Sutherland.
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 Mackay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A Canadian pioneer in environmental chemistry, Dr. Donald Mackay, P.Eng., Director of the Canadian Environmental Modelling Centre at Trent University in Peterborough, gained international recognition in the field of oil spill research in the 1970s as a result of developing equations and mathematical models which describe their behaviour and effects in temperate and arctic oceans.
Mackay is the originator and developer of an environmental modelling system based on the concept of fugacity that provides valuable insight into the behaviour of chemicals in the natural environment, as well as a framework for future projections.
Mackay's over 400 peer-reviewed publications on the validation of chemical transport processes and the measurement of physical chemical properties are standard references for environmental chemists around the world.
www.peo.on.ca /events/awards/OPEA/2001/mackay.htm   (388 words)

  
 GSI Online | Donald John Mackay, A Tribute
Donald Archie MacDonald was an exemplary Gael—an incomparable collector of Gaelic tales, and an outstanding scholar in the field of Gaelic folklore.
Donald Archie had a particular gift for recording tales; he liked nothing better than to record the tales from the old story-tellers whom he knew so well, and when it came to explaining the different versions of the tales he was without peer.
The death of Donald Archie MacDonald is a tragic loss to Gaelic scholarship and a blow keenly felt by the Society.
www.gsi.org.uk /djmackay.htm   (1692 words)

  
 Clansfolk of MacKay
It was in that year that Sir Donald MacKay (also known as Donald Duaghal) raised two thousand men from the MacKay country to go and fight for King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (who was the champion of the Protestant cause).
Donald MacKay, former area representative in Pictou East, was preaching in Summerside, P.E.I., he started a pipe band, in which all members wore the Ancient MacKay tartan.
Malcolm's brother is piper to the Clan MacKay Society in Scotland.
www.chebucto.ns.ca /Heritage/FSCNS/Scots_NS/Clans/MacKay/Pipers_Mackay/Pipers_MacKay.html   (1758 words)

  
 Determinism and the Semidecibility of a Free Choice: Feucht, Dennis
Donald MacKay advanced an argument that for a free agent, physically determinate predictions about the agent were logically indeterminate for the agent.
Donald M. MacKay was a Scottish physicist, brain researcher, and contributor to the understanding of the relationship between science and Christian faith.
MacKay thus concludes that a physically determinate prediction for the predictor (a noninteracting observer) is not inevitable for the agent to whom it is offered.
www.arn.org /docs/feucht/df_determinism.htm   (1483 words)

  
 History of the Mackay Family
The Mackays had to defend their territory against their powerful neighbours the Earls of Sutherland but eventually had to sell out the last of their property in 1829 through debt.
In 1626 Sir Donald Mackay raised an army of over 3,000 men and fought in the Thirty Years War in Bohemia and later in Denmark.
The Irish MacKays, McCoys and Magees probably originated in Scotland, crossing to the Ulster Plantations in the 17th century.
www.rampantscotland.com /clans/blclanmackay.htm   (375 words)

  
 MacKay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
NSW pastoralist Donald Mackay who had led previous surveying expeditions to New Guinea in 1908, and Arnhem Land in 1925, chartered both ANEC III's, "Love Bird" and "Diamond Bird" to map a previously unmapped area of Central Australia.
MacKay carried out further expeditions to chart Australia's interior in 1933, '35 and '37, all at his own expense, and without any relief from the Government by the way of exemption of stamp duty or fuel excise.
Donald MacKay was truly a great Australian who did not want the Tanami Desert tragedy of Anderson and Hitchcock (see Canberra story) repeated through the lack of charts.
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 Clan Mackay Shield at St Columba
The MacKay clan were both numerous and powerful and theirs is a history of continual strife with their neighbours.
During the nineteenth century, the clan MacKay suffered greatly as a result of the Highland clearances, and by 1875 the direct line of the clan had died out, with the entire MacKay country being in the hands of the Lords of Sutherland.
Charles Mackay was the manager of the bonding business Allan & Poynter (founded 1844) and in 1882, he joined forces with James Whyte to establish a firm of whisky merchants, based upon the success of the earlier business.
www.highlandcathedral.org /armorial/mackay.asp   (818 words)

  
 Donald Mackay - Crime Scene Melbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Donald MacKay was murdered on July 15, 1977 for criticising organised crime figures making fortunes from the marijuana trade around his home town of Griffith.
The crown alleged a conspiracy to murder Mackay by Mafia identity and drug trafficker Giofranco Tizzone, with Roger Joseph, patron of the Victoria Police Gun Club, and Painter and Docker James Bazely as the hired executioner.
Fred Krahe had been one of many who openly pushed the opinion that Donald MacKay's disappearance had nothing to do with drugs and that he'd taken off with another woman.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lord Reay is a title in the Scottish peerage first conferred on Sir Donald Mackay of Far, the elder son of Hugh Mackay in 1628.
From a village in NW Caithness (11 ml WSW of Thurso) which was once a burgh of regality and granted to Sir Donald Mackay when he was knighted in 1616.
This sept of the Mackays are probably descended from William, son of Donald Mackay.
www.clanmackay.ca /reay.html   (69 words)

  
 Ceol Mor
Donald MacKay, now piper to H. the Prince of Wales, was then piper to Sir George Grant of Ballendalloch, 8 miles from my home, and thanks to Sir George's kindness, most of Donald MacKay's days off duty, when his master was at Ballendalloch, were spent with me at Laggan.
Unfortunately MacDonald's and MacKay's [see library] publications, long out of print, are now within reach of few, but copies are not so rare yet that they may not be forthcoming to check my work.
Donald MacKay, Piper to H. the Prince of Wales.
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 Home
The first Lord of Reay (Donald Mackay, Chief of Clan Mackay) met with the Devil on several occasions and was able to get the better of him.
The Prince of Darkness was none too pleased about this and followed Donald Mackay to Durness where he sought to waylay him in Smoo Cave.
The gaugers bribed one, Donald Mackay by name, who resided in the vicinity of the Smoo Cave, to conduct them in his small boat into the inner chambers of the cave, where the illicit practice of distilling was, they had heard, being carried out in regular and uninterrupted fashion.
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 Kirk Sessions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mackay at Kirkiboll was appointed treasurer, and was to give money to the following individuals: Henrietta Mackay of Braetongue, Flora Morison of Kirkiboll; Ann Roy of Tongue; Ann Marrach [spelling unclear] of Ribigill.
Donald Mackay of Borgy; Robert Clark and Donald McKay of Sculomy [sic] and Alexander McKenzie.
Mackay, Lord Reay's father sold the seats of the Church to the Tenants.
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 Important Dates in Clan Mackay History
1528 - The Mackays are associated with the Forbes in the feuds of the latter.
AEneas Mackay, a Baron of the Netherlands, Vice President of the Council of State and holder of the Cross of the Order of the Netherlands, became 10th Lord Reay.
His son, Donald James Mackay, succeeded as 11th Lord Reay, left Holland and was made a Peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Reay of Durness (8th October, 1881) with a seat in the House of Lords.
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 Scots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mackay, Bain Donald, age 39, of Tar, Laborer, Tr.
Mackay, Cha., age 17 of Tar, ensign to the Highland Co.
Macleod, Donald, of Tar, laborer, servt to Mackay of Strothie
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 mackay clan - direct from scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the troubles of the 17th and 18th centuries the Mackays supported the Hanovarian (government) forces against the Jacobites and helped secure the far north for the government.
The Mackays suffered badly in the Strathnaver clearances between 1815 and 1818 and finally in 1829 the Reay estate was sold to the Sutherland family.
Donald MacKay, Chief of MacKay, was knighted first Lord Reay and was knighted Baronet of Nova Scotia when he acquired Anticosti Island in (then) Nova Scotia.
www.scotsheritage.co.uk /mackay_clan.htm   (812 words)

  
 Herald Sun: Widow's anger at 'evil' accuser [09may05]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mackay was a vocal anti-drugs campaigner in the Honoured Society stronghold of Griffith in New South Wales.
The Nagle Commission into police handling of the Mackay murder identified Mr Grassby as the person who unsuccessfully attempted to persuade politicians in Victoria, NSW, and South Australia to read an unsigned document in their respective parliaments.
That document falsely claimed Mrs Mackay, her son Paul and the Mackay family solicitor were responsible for the death of Donald Mackay.
www.heraldsun.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5478,15220497^661,00.html   (1050 words)

  
 Caithness CWS - History - Family History - Mackays - Mackay 1 - Index
Here is a photo of Donald MacKay 1827-1907, flsmith of Berriedale, with wife Marion Ross 1820-1899, and I suspect one of their younger daughters, Christina b.
Donald was sent as an officer to the newly-formed 52nd Battalion (he had previously been with the 90th Rifles as well), and postcards sent to Winnipeg from Berriedale indicate that he spent time in Caithness during leave.
Joseph Grant and Williamina MacKay both died in 1939 in Winnipeg, and are buried at Brookside Cemetery.
www.caithness.org /history/familyhistory/mackay/mackay1/index.htm   (652 words)

  
 Donald Mackay
Donald started piping in Alness in the Highlands of Scotland at the age of 10, under the instruction of Pipe Major John D. Burgess MBE.
He is a regular competitor on the solo piping circuit, having taken 2nd place in the Silver Medal at Oban in 1999 and won the 'B' Grade Strathspey and Reel at the 2002 Northern Meeting.
Donald just one the Dunrobin Castle Gold Medal for piobaireachd last month, he was appointed as Pipe Major of the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band in October 2004.
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