When Daniel Webster Quay was born on 6 August 1859, in Knox, Albany, New York, United States, his father, John Jacob Quay, was 49 and his mother, Emily M Warner, was 26. He married Idella Batcher in 1879, in Knox, Albany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Berne, Albany, New York, United States in 1910 and Albany, Albany, New York, United States in 1920. He died on 22 January 1937, in Knox, Albany, New York, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Knox Cemetery, Knox, Albany, New York, United States.
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Scottish and Irish: shortened form of McKay or McKee .
English: variant of Kay .
French: topographic name for someone who lived in a house on a quayside, from Old French quai ‘quay’.
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