MACKAY, IYE [SSNE 452]
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"Iye" Mackay was the son of William Mackay of Bighouse. He entered Danish-Norwegian service in colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment in 1626. Iye fought in Donald Mackay’s own company, replacing a lieutenant Stewart who got married and ‘stay’d in Scotland with his wife’. He was a lieutenant from 15/3/1626, but was reformed 1629. He was later appointed captain. Mackay came back to his country after the Treaty of Lübeck in May 1629. He married in November 1631 and took sasine of Golval and Strath (in Farr parish, Sutherland) in March 1633, from which he took his designation of Iye Mackay of Golval.
T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.124; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p.187; R. Monro, His Expedition with a worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keyes (London, 1637), I, p. 82. J. A. Fallon, ‘Scottish Mercenaries in the Service of Denmark and Sweden, 1626-32’ (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1972), 234-6, 242; R. Mackay, History of the House and Clan of Mackay (Edinburgh, 1829), 274. J. Mackay, An Old Scots Brigade (Edinburgh, 1885), pp. 80, 82, 206. J. L. Cairns-Smith-Barth, The Scottish Clan Chiefs. Volume One: The Chiefs of Clan Mackay and Their Cadets (Fitzroy, Australia, 1999), p. 79. NLS, Dep. 175/65, no. 190.
We thank Dr Thomas Brochard for editing this entry.
Service record
- DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT
- Departed 1629-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY