When Margaret MacKay was born in 1819, in Aird Uig, Ross-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John MacKay, was 43 and her mother, Henrietta MacDonald, was 44. She married Malcolm W MacDonald on 23 December 1840, in Aird Uig, Ross-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom. She lived in Compton, Quebec, Canada in 1881. She died in 1900, in Canada, at the age of 81, and was buried in Winslow Cemetery, Stornoway, Le Granit, Quebec, Canada.
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The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.
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Scottish: variant of McKay .
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