When Mary McNaught was born on 12 January 1793, in Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Alexander McNaught, was 47 and her mother, Ann Boyd, was 37. She married James Kennedy on 3 February 1823, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Gorbals, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Tradeston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died on 12 December 1870, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 77.
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Scottish and Irish: shortened form of McNaughton .
Irish and Scottish: in Donegal (Ireland) and, reportedly, southwestern Scotland, a variant of McKnight .
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