Person Record

Metadata

Name

McKay, Murdoch

Other Names

Murdock MacKay

Born

1853

Deceased

1935

Father

Murdock McKay

Mother

Annie McCaskill

Spouse

Isabella Campbell (1849-1931)

Children

Ella Mae (Coward), Maude and George.

Occupation

Murdock worked in the bush in northern Bruce County, in Muskoka and in Northern Michigan before purchasing Part Lot 22, Greenock Township on what is known to the locals as the Blind Line (Gamble Road).

Places

His parents emigrated to Canada from Scotland in the early 1850s, settling in Puslinch Township, Wellington County. Murdock came to Bruce Township as a young man. He married "local girl" Isabella Campbell and they raised a family in Glammis. The McKay family is buried in Purdy Cemetery.