Kenneth (Mackay) Mackay of Torboll (1756 - 1835)

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Biography

of Torboll. There is a monument to Capt. Mackay in Dornoch Cathedral

had 14 children

Kenneth was born in 1756.

Sources

• The Genealogy of the Families of Douglas of Mulderg and Robertson of Kindeace with their Descendants, A.M. Ross & Company, Dingwall 1895, p77

• The family tree of the Dukes, Earls, Lairds and Chiefs of Clan Sutherland 1100-2015 by John M Sutherland-Fisher, Genealogist of Clan Sutherland

• The Peerage of Scotland by Sir Robert Douglas (1764) 1st edition within which are found:(Sutherland, Lord Duffus pages 194-196 and Sutherland Earl of Sutherland pages 660-667)

• The History of the Earldom of Sutherland by Sir Robert Gordon (written 1650) who was younger son of Alexander Gordon 12th Earl of Sutherland and created 1st Baronet of Gordonstoun

• The Sutherland Books Volumes 1-3 by Sir William Fraser (1892) [presented in 1894 by the Duke of Sutherland to Queen Victoria]

• Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage 1935 edition

• The Scots Peerage by Sir James Balfour-Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms of Scotland

• A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain ... by Bernard Burke

• Private papers referring to various cadet branches of the Sutherland family in the collection of John M Sutherland-Fisher, Genealogist of Clan Sutherland

• A short history of Clan Sutherland , the families of Sutherland, Forse and Duffus 12th -19th centuries by Daniel J J Sutherland, Historian Emeritus of Clan Sutherland.

• A Fighting Clan: Officers in Clan Sutherland 1250-1850 by Malcolm Sutherland, Historian Emeritus of Clan Sutherland.

• Private papers in the collection of James B Sutherland, Historian of Clan Sutherland

• Private papers in the collection of John M Sutherland-Fisher, Genealogist of Clan Sutherland

• Memorabilia Domestica by the Rev. Donald Sage, Minister of Resolis, Ross-shire (step-son of Jean Sutherland of Midgarty)