Old Photograph Crofter Spinning Wool Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish Crofter spinning wool outside her cottage on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Jenny Mackay from Uig spinning wool. The branches of Mackays, are as follows: Aberach Mackays, Scoury Mackays, Bighouse Mackays, Strathy Mackays, Melness Mackays, Sandwood Mackays, Dutch Mackays, Swedish Mackays, now von Key, Galloway Mackays, Argyle and Western Mackays, Erchar or Vic Farquhar, Polson, Achmonie Mackays, Mackie, Mack, and the three different forms of the name Iyeson or Mackay: Ison, Eason, and Esson. The MacKays in Argyllshire and Galloway became a sept of the Lords of the Isles, MacDonald of the Isles. In these areas, the name MacKay is derived from Morgan's grandson, Aodh, whose mother was a MacNeil of Gigha. MacKays in the Western Isles of Scotland also form a sept of the Lords of the Isles. MacKays or MacAys of Clan Chattan, from Inverness-shire eastward, are really a sept of Clan MacDhai, or Davidson. There are many Clan MacKay members in Nova Scotia, Canada.



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