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Alexander Mackie

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Alexander Mackie

Birth
Fife, Scotland
Death
23 Feb 1857 (aged 89)
Rockton, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Alexander Mackie was baptised in Cults, county Fifeshire on March 29, 1767, the son of David and Margaret (Campbell) Mackie. He went to England and was married there on September 27, 1797 at Manchester, co Lancaster to Mary Tomlinson. They had four sons David, Andrew, John and Joseph, the later dying young. Mary died in 1807, and Alexander married secondly to Ann Mathewson and had a son William who went to Winnebago Co., Wisconsin, and two daughters Mary, future wife of Alexander Miller, and Christian, future wife of William Halley. Accompanied by his son David Mackie by his first marriage, the family removed to Nova Scotia in 1828. By 1833 they resided at Newbury, Vermont where Mary was married to Alex Miller, and then to Rockton Township by December 1846 when Christian was married to William Halley. Alex Mackie brought with him a clock which was later donated to the Macktown museum by William Halley's descendants.
Alexander Mackie was baptised in Cults, county Fifeshire on March 29, 1767, the son of David and Margaret (Campbell) Mackie. He went to England and was married there on September 27, 1797 at Manchester, co Lancaster to Mary Tomlinson. They had four sons David, Andrew, John and Joseph, the later dying young. Mary died in 1807, and Alexander married secondly to Ann Mathewson and had a son William who went to Winnebago Co., Wisconsin, and two daughters Mary, future wife of Alexander Miller, and Christian, future wife of William Halley. Accompanied by his son David Mackie by his first marriage, the family removed to Nova Scotia in 1828. By 1833 they resided at Newbury, Vermont where Mary was married to Alex Miller, and then to Rockton Township by December 1846 when Christian was married to William Halley. Alex Mackie brought with him a clock which was later donated to the Macktown museum by William Halley's descendants.


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