Kennedy Family Tree » John McKay (1813-1888)
Personal data John McKay
Source 1Sources 2, 3- He was born in the year 1813 in Carsphairn, Kirkcudbright, scotland.
- He died on November 25, 1888 in Monkton Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, he was 75 years old.
Disease of Heart
- A child of John McKay and Janet Welsh
Household of John McKay
He is married to Mary Hunter.
They got married on December 15, 1838 at Dalry, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, he was 25 years old.
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Day of marriage December 15, 1838
- The temperature on December 15, 1838 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt windstil. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- In the year 1838: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
- February 17 » Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
- June 10 » Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
- July 15 » Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
- August 18 » The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads.
- September 3 » Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
- October 5 » The Killough massacre in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped.
Day of death November 25, 1888
- The temperature on November 25, 1888 was about 10.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 82 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- March 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
- March 20 » The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
- May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
- August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
- October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
- December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.
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- 1865 » Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (b. 1821)
- 1884 » Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
- 1885 » Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
- 1885 » Thomas A. Hendricks, American lawyer and politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
- 1909 » Edward P. Allen, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
- 1920 » Gaston Chevrolet, French-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1892)
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Brian Kennedy, "Kennedy Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/kennedy-family-tree/P21186.php : accessed May 6, 2025), "John McKay (1813-1888)".