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Alexander Mitchell McKinlay 1885-1973
My grandfather Alexander Mitchell McKinlay was born on 10 Aug 1885 at Caversham District Dunedin New Zealand and was brought to Australia with his parents when aged about two years. ...

Donald McKinlay 1840-1926
My great-grandfather Donald McKinlay was born on 17 Feb 1840 at Helensborough Dunbartonshire. In about 1865 Donald migrated from Scotland to New Zealand. An unconfirmed family report dates his arrival ...

Clan MacFarlane
Although I am a third and fourth generation Australian I have long wanted to have a connection to my ancestral Scottish clan. But the McKinlay name is claimed by several ...

Ancestors and Australian descendants of Donald McKinlay (1840-1926) from c. 1732 to date
Generation One 1. Robert McKinlay born between 1664 and 1732. He married Grizzel but there is no certain data on this marriage. Perhaps the name is confused with that of ...

June Norton Hitchcock McKinlay 1922 – 2004
June was born at home on 31 May 1922 in Edithvale Victoria. She was the elder daughter of William and Frances Judith Hitchcock -- Bill and Judy. Her sister is ...

McKinley, McKinlay, M'Kinlay, M'Kinley, MacKinlay, MacKinley, M'Ginley, McGinley, Mc'Inley, McKindley, M'Kindley . . .
One of the things they cared less about in the past than we do now was spelling including it seems the spelling of names. Take my surname McKinlay for instance ...

One man's service, 1916 - 1919 : William Hitchcock 1886-1978
In small chunks I have been assembling information about my family history building on a research begun by my father John. Ironically achievements in war are often better documented than ...

Robert and Euphemia, Donald and Jane
This is a picture of the 50th wedding anniversary celebration of Robert and Euphemia McKinlay at Clifton Park Otago New Zealand in 1919. Robert and Euphemia and their 10 ...

Frances Judith Hitchcock 1897-1960
Among the family photographs I unearthed recently are these of my maternal grandmother Frances Judith Hitchcock (née Norton) -- my Grandma Judy. The one at top left was specially ...

John and June McKinlay married 1946
Cleaning out my study the other day I came across a long-forgotten cache of old family photos. I'm posting this one of my parents John and June on their wedding ...

John McKinlay and the radar war
The 60th anniversary of VJ Day 15 August prompts me to post this story written by my father who as I described in an earlier post was a radar specialist ...

Rhu lineage
This site is named not too much as that is the motto of some branches of the McKinlay family in Scotland and Northern Ireland. My father John has been investigating ...

Darwin, radar and Dad
19 February is the anniversary of the day in 1942 when the Japanese began air attacks on Darwin in northern Australia. The first attack employed land-based bombers together with attack ...

A brave voyage
In my earlier post I mentioned in passing my grandmother's migration to Australia in 1921. Which set me to looking up some more information about her voyage on R.M.S. (Royal ...

Tartan
From Rebel Prince I learn that Tuesday was American Tartan Day. Since 1998 April 6 been officially recognised by the US Senate as a celebration of the contribution generations of ...