MACKAY, WILLIAM [SSNE 471]

Surname

MACKAY

First name

WILLIAM

Title/rank

LT. COLONEL

Nationality

SCOT

Region

SCOURIE, SUTHERLAND

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

William Mackay was a son of Donald Mackay of Scourie. He served in Danish service from 15/10/1627, and was reformed in 1629. Mackay was appointed to the rank of lieutenant after Andrew Morton in the winter of 1628-9. He later transferred to Sweden with the rank of captain and became a lieutenant colonel soon after. He was killed in action at Lutzen in 1632.



Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1629/14,16; 1629/16; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.127; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p.188; R. Monro, His Expedition with a worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keyes (London, 1637), I, p.82; J. Mackay, An Old Scots Brigade (Edinburgh, 1885), pp. 103, 185, 206; A. Mackay, The Genealogy of the Family of Mackay, sometime of Sandwood and Kinlochbervie, ed. W. P. W. Phillimore (London, 1904), p. 14.

 

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Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1627-01-01, as LIEUTENANT

Departed 1629-10-31, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1629-11-01, as LIEUTENANT

Departed 1629-12-31, as LT. COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY