Born about in Upper Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Alexander McKay
and Esther (McDonald) McKay
Sister of
Catherine (McKay) Munro, Mary (McKay) Pretty, William McKay, Esther McKay, Thomas McKay, Robert McKay, James McKay, Hugh McKay and Elizabeth McKay
Wife of
James Charles Taylor
— married
19 Feb 1858 in Lanark County, Canada West
Descendants 
Mother of
Esther (Taylor) Cardiff, Thomas Taylor, Alexander Taylor, James Taylor, Simon Taylor, Elizabeth (Taylor) Shaw, William Taylor, Robert Taylor, Hugh Taylor, John Taylor and Catherine Taylor
Died
at about age 79
in McNab, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Biography
This profile is part of the Mackay Name Study.
Alexandrina was born about 1839 in Lanark County, Upper Canada. She is the daughter of Alexander McKay and Esther McDonald.
In 1851, Lexie McKay was living with her family in Lanark, Canada West. [1]
She married James Taylor in 1858, in Lanark County, Canada West.[2]
Lexie, James and their children were living in McNab, Renfrew South, Ontario.[3][4][5][6]
Alexandrina McKay Taylor died on 27 Jul 1917 in McNab, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada of acute Bright's Disease.[7] She is buried at Albert Street Cemetery, Arnprior, Ontario, Canada.[8]
Sources
- ↑ Year: 1851; Census Place: Lanark, Canada West (Ontario); Schedule: A; Roll: C-11732; Page: 63; Line: 47 Ancestry.com. 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
- ↑ "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2CB-ZFJH : 17 March 2018), James Taylor and Leiza McKay, 19 Feb 1858; citing Lanark, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,030,058.
- ↑ Year: 1881; Census Place: McNab, Renfrew South, Ontario; Roll: C_13234; Page: 15; Family No: 58 Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1881 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
- ↑ Year: 1891; Census Place: McNab, Renfrew South, Ontario, Canada; Roll: T-6366; Family No: 39 Ancestry.com. 1891 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
- ↑ Year: 1901; Census Place: McNab, Renfrew (South/Sud), Ontario; Page: 13; Family No: 118 Ancestry.com. 1901 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
- ↑ Year: 1911; Census Place: 21 - McNab, Renfrew South, Ontario; Page: 12; Family No: 114 Ancestry.com. 1911 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
- ↑ Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Collection: MS935; Reel: 238 Ancestry.com. Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1948 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/204031825/alexandria-taylor : accessed 26 June 2021), memorial page for Alexandria McKay Taylor (1830–1917), Find A Grave: Memorial #204031825; citing Albert Street Cemetery, Arnprior, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada ; Maintained by Cliff Seibel (contributor 47941064) .
- 1871 census McNab A2, South Renfrew, Ontario, Canada page 36,
- James Taylor Male 36 Ireland Irish C Presbyterian Farmer Married
- Alexandrina Taylor Female 33 Ontario Scotch C Presbyterian Married
- Easter Taylor Female 13 Ontario Irish C Presbyterian
- Thomas Taylor Male 10 (1861) Ontario Irish C Presbyterian
- Alexander Taylor Male 8 Ontario Irish C Presbyterian
- James Taylor Male 6 Ontario Irish C Presbyterian
- Simon Taylor Male 4 Ontario Irish C Presbyterian
- Eliza Taylor Female 2 Ontario Irish C Presbyterian
- William Taylor Male 0 Ontario Irish C Presbyterian
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lexy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lexy:
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~6.25%
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