Hugh McKay (1791-1867) and Martha McKee (1798-1870)
The name McKay (of Scotland and Northern Ireland) and the name McKee (of Northern Ireland) are both anglicized forms of the Gaelic Mac Aoidh, a personal name meaning Son of Fire.
Hugh and Martha married 4 February 1817 in South Carolina. Hugh McKay was born in South Carolina 8 April 1791 in Washington District and he died in Clay County Alabama 12 October 1867. Washington District encompassed Pendleton County and included current Anderson County. Martha McKee was born in South Carolina 24 February 1798 and she died in Clay County 1 October 1870.
Hugh and Martha's graves are at the Old Providence Cemetery not far from Lineville as are those of their son Rev Samuel Martin McKay (1828-1891) and his wife Lucinda Emilee Walden (1828-1891). Samuel was a longtime minister of the Providence Congregational Methodist Church. The McKay family gave the land for the church and the cemetery.
The McKay Family Bible gives death dates for William McKee (15 May 1815) and for Jane McKee (23 April 1835 aged 76 years and 4 months). William and Jane are thought to be the parents of Martha McKee. Hugh recorded the 14 August 1820 death of 'my son William' in the family Bible. William, born a scant nine months after his sister Jane, died before the second anniversary of his birth.
Beatrice Mackey Doughtie, in her 1957 book The Mackeys (Variously Spelled) and Allied Families, gives information about the family of Hugh McKay and Martha McKee that she gathered not only from court records but from Rev Samuel Martin McKay's granddaughter Maggie Lee McKay who had information from her aunt, Samuel's daughter Mary Emilee McKay. Bible records were provided Doughtie by Rev Marion William McKay from the family Bible which had been in the possession of his grandfather Hugh Marion McKay, the tenth child of Hugh McKay and Martha McKee.
Doughtie suggests that the Alabama McKays are descended from Samuel McKay and William McKee who came from Ireland together (sailing on the Free Mason) and are among the immigrants found in the council journals of South Carolina after that province offered land on favorable terms to Protestants. Samuel McKay as well as William McKee petitioned for land. Samuel McKay was granted 450 acres and William McKee was granted 250 acres at the 6 January 1773 meeting of the council.
The 1820 Pendleton County census records that the household of Jame/Jane McKee has a resident 'foreign not naturalized.' This Jane was likely the widow of William McKee who sailed from Ireland to South Carolina in 1772 and died in 1815. Heads of households were granted 100 acres as well as an additional 50 acres for a wife and for each child. As William was granted 250 acres we may assume that he immigrated with a wife and two children. Jane, as eldest, appears to be the foreigner not naturalized in her 1820 household. Very possibly, Jane emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina with William aboard the Free Mason in 1772.
The following records are from Pendleton/Anderson County:
• William McKee and his wife Jane deeded land in Pendleton County on Wilson's Creek 1 September 1797 to Archibald McKee.
• Jane McKee renounced her dower right 22 March 1806.
• Jane McKee administered the estate of her deceased husband William McKee 7 August 1815. No list of heirs. This year of death is in accord with the death date in Hugh McKay's Bible of 15 May 1815.
• Hugh McKay, dower by wife Martha, deeded land on Wilson's Creek to Harmon Gable 2 March 1825 and to John Stephens 28 March 1833.
• Hugh McKay of Anderson County deeded land on Barton Creek, waters of Rocky River, to Thomas Simpson 8 February 1834. Martha McKay was a witness.
• Marthy McKee of Abbeville District SC 'being far advanced in age' signed her Will 12 March 1813. Administration with Will annexed 12 November 1827 by Hugh McKay and Jane McKee. John Branyon probated the Will in Pendleton District and asked that Hugh McKay be named administrator.
Hugh and Martha's children are Jane Miller, William, John Thomas, Nancy Caroline, Rachel Isabella, Samuel Martin, Martha Malinda, Eliza Lewars, Archibald McDuffie and Hugh Marion.
Hugh McKay père volunteered in the company commanded by Capt Thompson in the regiment of Col Reuben Nash's South Carolina volunteer militia 18 June 1812 and continued in service as a private in the War of 1812 for six months. Nash would play a part in the Creek War, companies in his regiment traveling from South Carolina to Alabama in 1814.
White prospectors began to intrude on Indian lands after gold was struck in Alabama in 1830. Native Americans were forced west of the Mississippi River and a land rush ensued as White settlers poured into Alabama.
The McKays were in Chambers County Alabama in 1839. The 1840 federal census for Chambers County records that the household of Hugh McKay consists of two males under 5, one male 5-9, one male 15-19, one male 40-49, two females 5-9, one female 10-14 and one female 40-49. Two persons are employed in agriculture. Hugh was commissioned Constable in Chambers County 14 May 1844.
The 1850 census finds the McKays in Randolph County Alabama with household members Hugh McCay, Mary/Martha McCay, Elizabeth McKay (22), Eliza McKay (18) and Francis (Hugh) M McKay (10).
Martha and Hugh are still in Randolph County (PO Rockdale) in 1860. Their youngest son, Hugh Marion McKay (born in Alabama in 1839), is living with them. Father and son farm, Martha keeps house.
Clay County was established in 1866 from Talladega and Randolph counties. Most early countians (many of them of Scots, Irish or Scots-Irish descent), isolated by the rugged, densely forested Talladega Mountains to the west and the fast flowing Tallapoosa River to the east, survived through subsistence farming.
Martha, widowed, is living in Clay County Alabama (PO Lineville) with her son Hugh, a blacksmith, and his wife and children when the 1870 census is taken three months before her death. She is 71, can read but not write, and both of her parents are of foreign birth.
lili li née Loretta McKay Masters
4th great granddaughter of Martha and Hugh
3rd great granddaughter of Emilee and Samuel
11 September 2022
The name McKay (of Scotland and Northern Ireland) and the name McKee (of Northern Ireland) are both anglicized forms of the Gaelic Mac Aoidh, a personal name meaning Son of Fire.
Hugh and Martha married 4 February 1817 in South Carolina. Hugh McKay was born in South Carolina 8 April 1791 in Washington District and he died in Clay County Alabama 12 October 1867. Washington District encompassed Pendleton County and included current Anderson County. Martha McKee was born in South Carolina 24 February 1798 and she died in Clay County 1 October 1870.
Hugh and Martha's graves are at the Old Providence Cemetery not far from Lineville as are those of their son Rev Samuel Martin McKay (1828-1891) and his wife Lucinda Emilee Walden (1828-1891). Samuel was a longtime minister of the Providence Congregational Methodist Church. The McKay family gave the land for the church and the cemetery.
The McKay Family Bible gives death dates for William McKee (15 May 1815) and for Jane McKee (23 April 1835 aged 76 years and 4 months). William and Jane are thought to be the parents of Martha McKee. Hugh recorded the 14 August 1820 death of 'my son William' in the family Bible. William, born a scant nine months after his sister Jane, died before the second anniversary of his birth.
Beatrice Mackey Doughtie, in her 1957 book The Mackeys (Variously Spelled) and Allied Families, gives information about the family of Hugh McKay and Martha McKee that she gathered not only from court records but from Rev Samuel Martin McKay's granddaughter Maggie Lee McKay who had information from her aunt, Samuel's daughter Mary Emilee McKay. Bible records were provided Doughtie by Rev Marion William McKay from the family Bible which had been in the possession of his grandfather Hugh Marion McKay, the tenth child of Hugh McKay and Martha McKee.
Doughtie suggests that the Alabama McKays are descended from Samuel McKay and William McKee who came from Ireland together (sailing on the Free Mason) and are among the immigrants found in the council journals of South Carolina after that province offered land on favorable terms to Protestants. Samuel McKay as well as William McKee petitioned for land. Samuel McKay was granted 450 acres and William McKee was granted 250 acres at the 6 January 1773 meeting of the council.
The 1820 Pendleton County census records that the household of Jame/Jane McKee has a resident 'foreign not naturalized.' This Jane was likely the widow of William McKee who sailed from Ireland to South Carolina in 1772 and died in 1815. Heads of households were granted 100 acres as well as an additional 50 acres for a wife and for each child. As William was granted 250 acres we may assume that he immigrated with a wife and two children. Jane, as eldest, appears to be the foreigner not naturalized in her 1820 household. Very possibly, Jane emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina with William aboard the Free Mason in 1772.
The following records are from Pendleton/Anderson County:
• William McKee and his wife Jane deeded land in Pendleton County on Wilson's Creek 1 September 1797 to Archibald McKee.
• Jane McKee renounced her dower right 22 March 1806.
• Jane McKee administered the estate of her deceased husband William McKee 7 August 1815. No list of heirs. This year of death is in accord with the death date in Hugh McKay's Bible of 15 May 1815.
• Hugh McKay, dower by wife Martha, deeded land on Wilson's Creek to Harmon Gable 2 March 1825 and to John Stephens 28 March 1833.
• Hugh McKay of Anderson County deeded land on Barton Creek, waters of Rocky River, to Thomas Simpson 8 February 1834. Martha McKay was a witness.
• Marthy McKee of Abbeville District SC 'being far advanced in age' signed her Will 12 March 1813. Administration with Will annexed 12 November 1827 by Hugh McKay and Jane McKee. John Branyon probated the Will in Pendleton District and asked that Hugh McKay be named administrator.
Hugh and Martha's children are Jane Miller, William, John Thomas, Nancy Caroline, Rachel Isabella, Samuel Martin, Martha Malinda, Eliza Lewars, Archibald McDuffie and Hugh Marion.
Hugh McKay père volunteered in the company commanded by Capt Thompson in the regiment of Col Reuben Nash's South Carolina volunteer militia 18 June 1812 and continued in service as a private in the War of 1812 for six months. Nash would play a part in the Creek War, companies in his regiment traveling from South Carolina to Alabama in 1814.
White prospectors began to intrude on Indian lands after gold was struck in Alabama in 1830. Native Americans were forced west of the Mississippi River and a land rush ensued as White settlers poured into Alabama.
The McKays were in Chambers County Alabama in 1839. The 1840 federal census for Chambers County records that the household of Hugh McKay consists of two males under 5, one male 5-9, one male 15-19, one male 40-49, two females 5-9, one female 10-14 and one female 40-49. Two persons are employed in agriculture. Hugh was commissioned Constable in Chambers County 14 May 1844.
The 1850 census finds the McKays in Randolph County Alabama with household members Hugh McCay, Mary/Martha McCay, Elizabeth McKay (22), Eliza McKay (18) and Francis (Hugh) M McKay (10).
Martha and Hugh are still in Randolph County (PO Rockdale) in 1860. Their youngest son, Hugh Marion McKay (born in Alabama in 1839), is living with them. Father and son farm, Martha keeps house.
Clay County was established in 1866 from Talladega and Randolph counties. Most early countians (many of them of Scots, Irish or Scots-Irish descent), isolated by the rugged, densely forested Talladega Mountains to the west and the fast flowing Tallapoosa River to the east, survived through subsistence farming.
Martha, widowed, is living in Clay County Alabama (PO Lineville) with her son Hugh, a blacksmith, and his wife and children when the 1870 census is taken three months before her death. She is 71, can read but not write, and both of her parents are of foreign birth.
lili li née Loretta McKay Masters
4th great granddaughter of Martha and Hugh
3rd great granddaughter of Emilee and Samuel
11 September 2022
Hugh McKay (1791-1867) and Martha McKee (1798-1870)
The name McKay (of Scotland and Northern Ireland) and the name McKee (of Northern Ireland) are both anglicized forms of the Gaelic Mac Aoidh, a personal name meaning Son of Fire.
Hugh and Martha married 4 February 1817 in South Carolina. Hugh McKay was born in South Carolina 8 April 1791 in Washington District and he died in Clay County Alabama 12 October 1867. Washington District encompassed Pendleton County and included current Anderson County. Martha McKee was born in South Carolina 24 February 1798 and she died in Clay County 1 October 1870.
Hugh and Martha's graves are at the Old Providence Cemetery not far from Lineville as are those of their son Rev Samuel Martin McKay (1828-1891) and his wife Lucinda Emilee Walden (1828-1891). Samuel was a longtime minister of the Providence Congregational Methodist Church. The McKay family gave the land for the church and the cemetery.
The McKay Family Bible gives death dates for William McKee (15 May 1815) and for Jane McKee (23 April 1835 aged 76 years and 4 months). William and Jane are thought to be the parents of Martha McKee. Hugh recorded the 14 August 1820 death of 'my son William' in the family Bible. William, born a scant nine months after his sister Jane, died before the second anniversary of his birth.
Beatrice Mackey Doughtie, in her 1957 book The Mackeys (Variously Spelled) and Allied Families, gives information about the family of Hugh McKay and Martha McKee that she gathered not only from court records but from Rev Samuel Martin McKay's granddaughter Maggie Lee McKay who had information from her aunt, Samuel's daughter Mary Emilee McKay. Bible records were provided Doughtie by Rev Marion William McKay from the family Bible which had been in the possession of his grandfather Hugh Marion McKay, the tenth child of Hugh McKay and Martha McKee.
Doughtie suggests that the Alabama McKays are descended from Samuel McKay and William McKee who came from Ireland together (sailing on the Free Mason) and are among the immigrants found in the council journals of South Carolina after that province offered land on favorable terms to Protestants. Samuel McKay as well as William McKee petitioned for land. Samuel McKay was granted 450 acres and William McKee was granted 250 acres at the 6 January 1773 meeting of the council.
The 1820 Pendleton County census records that the household of Jame/Jane McKee has a resident 'foreign not naturalized.' This Jane was likely the widow of William McKee who sailed from Ireland to South Carolina in 1772 and died in 1815. Heads of households were granted 100 acres as well as an additional 50 acres for a wife and for each child. As William was granted 250 acres we may assume that he immigrated with a wife and two children. Jane, as eldest, appears to be the foreigner not naturalized in her 1820 household. Very possibly, Jane emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina with William aboard the Free Mason in 1772.
The following records are from Pendleton/Anderson County:
• William McKee and his wife Jane deeded land in Pendleton County on Wilson's Creek 1 September 1797 to Archibald McKee.
• Jane McKee renounced her dower right 22 March 1806.
• Jane McKee administered the estate of her deceased husband William McKee 7 August 1815. No list of heirs. This year of death is in accord with the death date in Hugh McKay's Bible of 15 May 1815.
• Hugh McKay, dower by wife Martha, deeded land on Wilson's Creek to Harmon Gable 2 March 1825 and to John Stephens 28 March 1833.
• Hugh McKay of Anderson County deeded land on Barton Creek, waters of Rocky River, to Thomas Simpson 8 February 1834. Martha McKay was a witness.
• Marthy McKee of Abbeville District SC 'being far advanced in age' signed her Will 12 March 1813. Administration with Will annexed 12 November 1827 by Hugh McKay and Jane McKee. John Branyon probated the Will in Pendleton District and asked that Hugh McKay be named administrator.
Hugh and Martha's children are Jane Miller, William, John Thomas, Nancy Caroline, Rachel Isabella, Samuel Martin, Martha Malinda, Eliza Lewars, Archibald McDuffie and Hugh Marion.
Hugh McKay père volunteered in the company commanded by Capt Thompson in the regiment of Col Reuben Nash's South Carolina volunteer militia 18 June 1812 and continued in service as a private in the War of 1812 for six months. Nash would play a part in the Creek War, companies in his regiment traveling from South Carolina to Alabama in 1814.
White prospectors began to intrude on Indian lands after gold was struck in Alabama in 1830. Native Americans were forced west of the Mississippi River and a land rush ensued as White settlers poured into Alabama.
The McKays were in Chambers County Alabama in 1839. The 1840 federal census for Chambers County records that the household of Hugh McKay consists of two males under 5, one male 5-9, one male 15-19, one male 40-49, two females 5-9, one female 10-14 and one female 40-49. Two persons are employed in agriculture. Hugh was commissioned Constable in Chambers County 14 May 1844.
The 1850 census finds the McKays in Randolph County Alabama with household members Hugh McCay, Mary/Martha McCay, Elizabeth McKay (22), Eliza McKay (18) and Francis (Hugh) M McKay (10).
Martha and Hugh are still in Randolph County (PO Rockdale) in 1860. Their youngest son, Hugh Marion McKay (born in Alabama in 1839), is living with them. Father and son farm, Martha keeps house.
Clay County was established in 1866 from Talladega and Randolph counties. Most early countians (many of them of Scots, Irish or Scots-Irish descent), isolated by the rugged, densely forested Talladega Mountains to the west and the fast flowing Tallapoosa River to the east, survived through subsistence farming.
Martha, widowed, is living in Clay County Alabama (PO Lineville) with her son Hugh, a blacksmith, and his wife and children when the 1870 census is taken three months before her death. She is 71, can read but not write, and both of her parents are of foreign birth.
lili li née Loretta McKay Masters
4th great granddaughter of Martha and Hugh
3rd great granddaughter of Emilee and Samuel
11 September 2022
The name McKay (of Scotland and Northern Ireland) and the name McKee (of Northern Ireland) are both anglicized forms of the Gaelic Mac Aoidh, a personal name meaning Son of Fire.
Hugh and Martha married 4 February 1817 in South Carolina. Hugh McKay was born in South Carolina 8 April 1791 in Washington District and he died in Clay County Alabama 12 October 1867. Washington District encompassed Pendleton County and included current Anderson County. Martha McKee was born in South Carolina 24 February 1798 and she died in Clay County 1 October 1870.
Hugh and Martha's graves are at the Old Providence Cemetery not far from Lineville as are those of their son Rev Samuel Martin McKay (1828-1891) and his wife Lucinda Emilee Walden (1828-1891). Samuel was a longtime minister of the Providence Congregational Methodist Church. The McKay family gave the land for the church and the cemetery.
The McKay Family Bible gives death dates for William McKee (15 May 1815) and for Jane McKee (23 April 1835 aged 76 years and 4 months). William and Jane are thought to be the parents of Martha McKee. Hugh recorded the 14 August 1820 death of 'my son William' in the family Bible. William, born a scant nine months after his sister Jane, died before the second anniversary of his birth.
Beatrice Mackey Doughtie, in her 1957 book The Mackeys (Variously Spelled) and Allied Families, gives information about the family of Hugh McKay and Martha McKee that she gathered not only from court records but from Rev Samuel Martin McKay's granddaughter Maggie Lee McKay who had information from her aunt, Samuel's daughter Mary Emilee McKay. Bible records were provided Doughtie by Rev Marion William McKay from the family Bible which had been in the possession of his grandfather Hugh Marion McKay, the tenth child of Hugh McKay and Martha McKee.
Doughtie suggests that the Alabama McKays are descended from Samuel McKay and William McKee who came from Ireland together (sailing on the Free Mason) and are among the immigrants found in the council journals of South Carolina after that province offered land on favorable terms to Protestants. Samuel McKay as well as William McKee petitioned for land. Samuel McKay was granted 450 acres and William McKee was granted 250 acres at the 6 January 1773 meeting of the council.
The 1820 Pendleton County census records that the household of Jame/Jane McKee has a resident 'foreign not naturalized.' This Jane was likely the widow of William McKee who sailed from Ireland to South Carolina in 1772 and died in 1815. Heads of households were granted 100 acres as well as an additional 50 acres for a wife and for each child. As William was granted 250 acres we may assume that he immigrated with a wife and two children. Jane, as eldest, appears to be the foreigner not naturalized in her 1820 household. Very possibly, Jane emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina with William aboard the Free Mason in 1772.
The following records are from Pendleton/Anderson County:
• William McKee and his wife Jane deeded land in Pendleton County on Wilson's Creek 1 September 1797 to Archibald McKee.
• Jane McKee renounced her dower right 22 March 1806.
• Jane McKee administered the estate of her deceased husband William McKee 7 August 1815. No list of heirs. This year of death is in accord with the death date in Hugh McKay's Bible of 15 May 1815.
• Hugh McKay, dower by wife Martha, deeded land on Wilson's Creek to Harmon Gable 2 March 1825 and to John Stephens 28 March 1833.
• Hugh McKay of Anderson County deeded land on Barton Creek, waters of Rocky River, to Thomas Simpson 8 February 1834. Martha McKay was a witness.
• Marthy McKee of Abbeville District SC 'being far advanced in age' signed her Will 12 March 1813. Administration with Will annexed 12 November 1827 by Hugh McKay and Jane McKee. John Branyon probated the Will in Pendleton District and asked that Hugh McKay be named administrator.
Hugh and Martha's children are Jane Miller, William, John Thomas, Nancy Caroline, Rachel Isabella, Samuel Martin, Martha Malinda, Eliza Lewars, Archibald McDuffie and Hugh Marion.
Hugh McKay père volunteered in the company commanded by Capt Thompson in the regiment of Col Reuben Nash's South Carolina volunteer militia 18 June 1812 and continued in service as a private in the War of 1812 for six months. Nash would play a part in the Creek War, companies in his regiment traveling from South Carolina to Alabama in 1814.
White prospectors began to intrude on Indian lands after gold was struck in Alabama in 1830. Native Americans were forced west of the Mississippi River and a land rush ensued as White settlers poured into Alabama.
The McKays were in Chambers County Alabama in 1839. The 1840 federal census for Chambers County records that the household of Hugh McKay consists of two males under 5, one male 5-9, one male 15-19, one male 40-49, two females 5-9, one female 10-14 and one female 40-49. Two persons are employed in agriculture. Hugh was commissioned Constable in Chambers County 14 May 1844.
The 1850 census finds the McKays in Randolph County Alabama with household members Hugh McCay, Mary/Martha McCay, Elizabeth McKay (22), Eliza McKay (18) and Francis (Hugh) M McKay (10).
Martha and Hugh are still in Randolph County (PO Rockdale) in 1860. Their youngest son, Hugh Marion McKay (born in Alabama in 1839), is living with them. Father and son farm, Martha keeps house.
Clay County was established in 1866 from Talladega and Randolph counties. Most early countians (many of them of Scots, Irish or Scots-Irish descent), isolated by the rugged, densely forested Talladega Mountains to the west and the fast flowing Tallapoosa River to the east, survived through subsistence farming.
Martha, widowed, is living in Clay County Alabama (PO Lineville) with her son Hugh, a blacksmith, and his wife and children when the 1870 census is taken three months before her death. She is 71, can read but not write, and both of her parents are of foreign birth.
lili li née Loretta McKay Masters
4th great granddaughter of Martha and Hugh
3rd great granddaughter of Emilee and Samuel
11 September 2022
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