Mckay Family History
Mckay Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Aodha ‘son of Aodh’, an ancient personal name meaning
‘fire’. Etymologically, this is the same name as McCoy.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mckay
Name Distribution of Mckay Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mckay families
 214 - 426  72 - 213 |
 1 - 71  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mckay families
|
1,410 - 2,818 471 - 1,409 |
1 - 470 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mckay census records
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Mckay Family Origin
Mckay Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mckay Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Mckay Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mckay census records
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Military Service by Mckay
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