From the Logie Buchan (Aberdeenshire) parish register:
April the 10 1773
William MACKIE in our parish of Logie Buchan and Margerat Cruckshank in the parish of Foveran, being legally proclaimed in order to marriage, and no objection offered over accordingly married the twenty eight day of said month.
I have not been able to trace William MACKIE/MACKAY/MCKAY any further back than his marriage. Of his four children, only two appear to have been baptised (both in Bellie, Moray) and no hints about William's parents are given on those baptisms (ie. no McKays were shown as witnesses).
William was buried at Bellie on 3 Oct 1830, aged 85 years (so born abt 1745).
Other family researchers have noted William's parents as Alexander MCKAY and Janet aka Katherine REID, who married in Inverness on 27 Jan 1736, but I am really wary of this, even though Alexander and Janet did have a son William born in 1748 (about the right time), as there is a BIG difference between Inverness and Logie Buchan that can't be explained.
Can anybody help me to find William McKay's parents, please? Sorry I don't have much to go on.
Prue