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Here is an update of research work completed to date.
I have now collected the copy birth certificate of John Hugh McKay, who was born on 03 August 1857 at abbots Ripton, the son of John McKay, railway plate layer, and Jane McKay, formerly Clutterbuck.
Came to United States when 21.
Resided at 12803 Park Grove Avenue, Garfield Heights
Info from Maureen says he was born in Abbot-Rippon, Lancashire England in 1857. And that he had a sister Margaret that lived in England.
I found a John Hugh Mackay that was born in Abbots Ripton, Huntington England on 8 Aug 1857. He had a sister Margaret + one more sister and 4 brothers???
-- 8 aug 1857 in Abbots Ripton, Huntington England
Id#: 0220201
Name: Mackay, John Hugh
Date: Feb 20 1933
Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #053.
Notes: Mackay: John Hugh, beloved husband of Matilda (nee Tyers), father of Jennie (deceased), Mrs. William E. Rose Arthur G., Grace and Grant, veteran of Cleveland City Lodge F. and A. M., at his residence, 12803 Melgrove Ave., Garfield Heights, O. At home until Monday a. m. Funeral Monday, Feb. 20. Services at Jones Funeral Home, Miles and E. 95th, at 1:30 p. m.
Letter received from researchers...
Hi!
Received your letter it brought back some memories. In 1995 and 1996 we
filled a mission in England and lived in a village called Wood Walton.
We lived about 10 to 15 miles from Abbots Ripton, where our post office
was. We had a friend who wrote a book about Wood Walton. In the back he
had copied some of the census records of the families living in the Wood
Walton area. He copied the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and the 1891
censuses of those living in that area. I did not find the family in any
but 1871. This what it said:
John Mackay, head of the house, 58 years old and married was a railway
labourer who was born in Scotland. Now the LDS Family History Centers
have the Old Parochial Records of Scotland and I think it is also
on-line. There you may find his birth date and exact place in Scotland
as well as the names of his parents. They list them by the surname and
also the given name. They are very good records and go back past the
time that Scotland's government recorded them. They are old church
records.
The road they lived on was called the Railway Huts Road. His wife, Jane,
was 49 and it said they thought she was born is Glousters, England. No
town was mentioned, just the shire. They had a son, William Grant Mackay
was an unmarried railway labourer and was 22 at the time. He was born in
Folser(?), Warwicks, England. That made me think they weren't sure of
the village and are sure of the shire. They also had a daughter, 15,
named Flora Adalaide Mackay born in Abbots Ritpon, Hunts, England. The
last child named was John Hugh Mackay, a son who was 13 and listed as a
labourer also born in Abbots Ripton.
You may want to check these other census records to see if they are in
other areas in England.
I hope this is some value to you. I work in an LDS Family History Center
and I am sure it is on line. so good luck!
Grace and Claude Li
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