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Mckay ancestors originally from northern Scotland.Last known reference, James Edward Flimister Mckay,from Dundee,Scotland, who migrated to Australia in the late eighteen hundreds. Whilst in Australia, married Isabella Beeg, originally from Stonehaven.
In nineteen seventy nine, James Edward Flimister Mckay 1V, married Jillian Maree Fraser ex the Frasers of Mallow, County Cork in Ireland. Last known Irish reference Nicholas Frazer b.1810.Left Ireland in 1855 for Australia,marrying and running away with Catherine Cott.Prevous wife, Johanna Sullivan Flynne, who was born in 1813. Sometime later, in Warnambool, Victoria, Australia, Nicholas' grandchildren changed the spelling of the surname from Frazer to Fraser as Australia, in those days, was more sympathetic to protestants than to catholics in terms of employment opportunities.

What we are looking for is earlier detail going back before Nicholas Frazer and before James Edward Flimister Mckay the first.