Clan Mackay Society War Memorial Volume (1924) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index

Trace Your Clan Mackay Ancestors Across Sutherland, Scotland, and the Global Diaspora in the Rare 1924 Roll of Honour

Originally compiled and privately published in Glasgow in 1924 by the Clan Mackay Society under Honorary Secretary David Norman Mackay, the Clan Mackay Society War Memorial Volume is one of the scarcest and most genealogically rich single-clan military registers ever printed. Documenting more than 1,100 fallen men and women bearing the name of Mackay (across all orthographies: Mackay, MacKay, McKay, and M'Kay) alongside over 550 decorated clansmen who served in the Great War of 1914–1918, this volume acts as a vital early-20th-century census and migration bridge. Because the British Army rolls systematically record both the soldier's Parish or Town of Birth (b) and Town of Enlistment (e), researchers can trace exact family migration paths from ancestral crofts in Dùthaich Mhic Aoidh (the Reay Country of northwestern Sutherland), Caithness, Ross-shire, and the Isle of Lewis to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, England, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States.

What's Inside This Enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Edition:

• Complete 74-Page Archival Digital Edition (PDF): Includes the full 1924 Glasgow printing (60 original scan pages covering the cover, title page, English and Gaelic dedication, four historical photographic plates of the Mackay homeland in Sutherland, Printed Roll Pages 9–56, and closing memorial orations), preceded by 4 pages of newly typeset Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv) and followed by a 10-page Comprehensive Alphabetical Surname, Lineage, Parish & Regiment Index.
• Pure-White (#FFFFFF) Archival Page Restoration: Every page of the original 1924 scan—including the dark fibrous wrapper covers and yellowed text leaves—has been digitally cleaned and whitened to a crisp, pure white (#FFFFFF) paper background with high-contrast black letterpress typography for effortless screen reading and home printing.
• Four Preserved Highland Homeland Plates: Retains the four rare halftone landscape photographs from the original volume: Loch Inchard, Ben Loyal from Road to Ribigill, View of Loch Hope from Hope Lodge, and Bay of Bighouse.
• Every-Word Searchable OCR Layer & Interactive Bookmarks: Search instantly using Ctrl+F (Windows) or Cmd+F (Mac) by forename, maternal middle surname, regimental service number, parish of birth, town of enlistment, or battalion, and jump directly to any regiment using built-in PDF bookmarks.
• Newly Compiled Back-of-Book Research Index: Cross-references 129 Clan Mackay variants and maternal/associated family surnames, 138 Clan Mackay forename lineages, 399 parishes, birthplaces, enlistment towns, and campaign theatres, and 92 naval vessels and military regiments with exact page conversion formulas (Original Scan PDF Page = Printed Page + 2; Merged PDF Page = Printed Page + 6).

Historical & Regional Overview

For centuries, Clan Mackay (Clann Mhic Aoidh, motto Manu Forti—“With a Strong Hand”) held the rugged northern territories of Dùthaich Mhic Aoidh (the Reay Country), stretching across the parishes of Tongue, Farr, Bettyhill, Melvich, Skerray, Strathy, Durness, and Eddrachillis in northwestern Sutherland, as well as neighbouring estates in eastern Sutherland (Dornoch, Golspie, Brora, Lairg, Rogart, and Loth), Caithness (Thurso, Halkirk, Watten, Wick, Bower, Latheron, and Reay), Ross-shire (Dingwall, Tain, Urray, Nigg, Rosskeen, Contin, and Fodderty), and the Outer Hebrides (Barvas, Lochs, Uig, Stornoway, Harris, and South Uist). Following the nineteenth-century Highland Clearances and industrial expansion, thousands of Mackay families relocated to the Clyde and Forth valleys or emigrated across the British Empire and North America. When war broke out in 1914, clansmen answered the call in extraordinary numbers across the Royal Naval Reserve, the Seaforth Highlanders, the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, the Gordon Highlanders, the Black Watch, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the Royal Scots, the Highland Light Infantry, and the expeditionary forces of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, and the United States.

Genealogists prize this volume for two unique features rarely found together in a single source: first, the pairing of exact birth parishes (b) with enlistment towns (e), which reveals where a Highland family had settled by 1914; and second, the preservation of traditional Scottish middle names. Under Scottish naming patterns, a child's middle name was frequently the maiden surname of their mother or grandmother. Entries such as Murdoch M'Kenzie MacKay, William Pringle MacKay, Jas. M'Farlane MacKay, Alex. Shearer McKay, Jas. MacDonald Cathcart MacKay, Sinclair Munroe MacKay, Amos Rintoul MacKay, and Matron C. A. Tait Mackay preserve more than 125 maternal and allied family surnames directly within the roll, offering immediate breakthroughs when cross-referenced with Scotland's Statutory Registers, Old Parish Registers (OPRs), and Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) next-of-kin records.

Surnames & Families Indexed in This Volume:

Adams, Aitken, Anderson, Annandale, Auld, Belford, Brice, Brodie, Brownell, Bruce, Calder, Cameron, Campbell, Carlyle, Carroll, Carter, Cathcart, Charlton, Chiene, Chisholm, Chisholme, Clark, Cumming, Darroch, Davidson, Davison, Dempsey, Donaldson, Doull, Douglas, Edford, Edgar, Evander, Ferguson, Forbert, Forbes, Fordyce, Fortescue, Foster, Galloway, Giffard, Gifford, Glen, Gordon, Graham, Grant, Greer, Gregory, Gunn, Hamilton, Hastie, Hawkin, Heaton, Henderson, Innes, Innis, Johnston, Johnstone, Keefer, Keith, Kemp, Kirby, Kitchen, Lamont, Leslie, Lindsay, Livingstone, Logan, Lott, Lyall, MacDonald, MacFarlane, MacKay, Mackay, Mackenzie, Macleod, Manson, Martin, Matheson, Maxwell, McDonald, M'Farlane, M'Kay, McKay, McKenzie, M'Kenzie, McLean, Milne, Moir, Morgan, Morrison, Morton, Munro, Munroe, Murray, Newton, Nish, Pringle, Ramsay, Rayford, Reay, Richardson, Rintoul, Roberts, Robertson, Rodger, Rogerson, Rose, Ross, Russel, Russell, Sayre, Scott, Shaw, Shearer, Sinclair, Smith, Spence, Spencer, Sprott, Spurgeon, St. Clair, Stanton, Stewart, Stibbard, Stirling, Stockdale, Strathy, Stuart, Sutherland, Symington, Tait, Talbot, Verrall, Waddell, Walker, Wallace, Watson, Watt, White, Whyte, Wilson, Wright, Young, plus 138 indexed Clan Mackay forename lineages (Adam Mackay, Alan Mackay, Alastair Mackay, Albert Mackay, Alexander Mackay, Alfred Mackay, Alvin Mackay, Amos Rintoul Mackay, Andrew Mackay, Angus Mackay, Ansel Mackay, Archibald Mackay, Arnold Mackay, Arthur Mackay, Atwood Talbot Mackay, Austin Neil Mackay, Benjamin Mackay, Bernard Mackay, Bradley Mackay, Bruce Mackay, Carroll Mackay, Charles Mackay, Chester Mackay, Christopher Mackay, Claude Mackay, Clement Thomas Mackay, Colin Mackay, Daniel Mackay, David Mackay, Donald Mackay, Dougal Mackay, Douglas Mackay, Duncan Mackay, Earl Mackay, Ebenezer Grant Mackay, Edford Mackay, Edgar Leslie Mackay, Edward Mackay, Edwin Mackay, Elmer Mackay, Elmore Mackay, Eric Mackay, Ernest Mackay, Evan Mackay, Evans Mackay, Evelyn Verrall Mackay, Ewan Mackay, Ewen Mackay, Finlay Mackay, Francis Mackay, Frank Mackay, Frederick Mackay, Gabriel Mackay, George Mackay, Gerard Morgan Mackay, Gilbert Mackay, Gifford Mackay, Godfrey Forbert Mackay, Gordon Mackay, Hamish Strathy Mackay, Harold Mackay, Harry Mackay, Hector Mackay, Henry Mackay, Herbert Mackay, Herman Mackay, Howard Mackay, Howell Mackay, Hubert Mackay, Hugh Mackay, Ian Mackay, Innes Mackay, Ivan Mackay, James Mackay, Jerry Mackay, Joe Mackay, John Mackay, Joseph Mackay, Keith Mackay, Kenneth Mackay, Kitchen Mackay, Laurence Mackay, Leonard Mackay, Leslie Mackay, Lewis Fordyce Mackay, Linden Robert Mackay, Livingstone Mackay, Lott Mackay, Louis Mackay, Luther Mackay, Magnus Mackay, Malcolm Mackay, Mark Mackay, Matthew Mackay, Maxwell Mackay, Melvin Mackay, Michael Mackay, Moray Sutherland Mackay, Munro Mackay, Murdo Mackay, Murdoch Mackay, Nathaniel Mackay, Neil Mackay, Neill Mackay, Norman Mackay, Patrick Mackay, Percival Mackay, Percy Stanley Mackay, Peter Mackay, Philip Mackay, Ralph Mackay, Rayford Mackay, Reay Mackay, Reed Mackay, Reginald Mackay, Richard Mackay, Richardson Mackay, Robert Mackay, Roderick Mackay, Ronald Mackay, Roy Mackay, Russell Mackay, Samuel Mackay, Scott Mackay, Simon Mackay, Sinclair Mackay, Spence Mackay, Spencer Mackay, Spurgeon Mackay, Stanley Mackay, Sydney Mackay, Tebe Mackay, Terence Mackay, Thomas Mackay, Vernon Henry Mackay, Victor Ronald Mackay, Walter Mackay, Watson Mackay, Wilbur Mackay, Wilfred Mackay, William Mackay, Wilson James Mackay, Wright Mackay).

Parishes, Townships & Settlements Indexed:

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Aberfoyle, Abingdon, Achmore (Stornoway), Airdrie, Aldershot, Alexandria, Alloa, Alness, Alnwick, Alves, Ancoats (Manchester), Anderston (Glasgow), Annan, Anstruther, Antrim, Anzac (Gallipoli), Arbroath, Ardoyne (Belfast), Armadale, Armoy, Ashington, Ashton-under-Lyne, Auchterarder, Avoch, Ayr, Bailliestown, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Ballywalter, Banchory, Barony (Glasgow), Barrhead, Barvas (Isle of Lewis), Bathgate, Battersea, Bay of Bighouse, Beaufort, Belfast, Belgium, Ben Loyal (Ribigill), Bervie, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Bethnal Green, Bettyhill (Farr), Biggar, Billie (Morayshire), Billy (Co. Antrim), Birkenhead, Birmingham, Birtley, Bishop Auckland, Bishopmill (Elgin), Blantyre, Blenheim (N.Z.), Bollington, Bolton, Bo'ness, Bonhill, Bower (Caithness), Bowmore (Islay), Boyle, Bradford, Bridgeton (Glasgow), Brodie, Brora (Sutherland), Broughton, Broughty Ferry, Broxburn, Buckie, Burntisland, Bury, Cairnie, Cairo, Callander, Cambridge, Cambuslang, Cambusnethan, Camelon, Campbeltown, Campsie, Canning Town, Cape Town, Cardross, Carluke, Castletown (Caithness), Caterham, Cathcart, Cellardyke, Chapleton, Chelsea, Chester, Chorley, Christchurch (N.Z.), Clarkston, Cleckheaton, Clydebank, Coatbridge, Colchester, Coleraine, Colinton, Contin, Cove, Coylton, Craigmonie (Inverness), Crieff, Cromarty, Croydon, Cullen, Cupar (Fife), Custom House, Dalbeattie, Dalkeith, Dalmellington, Dalston, Dalziel (Motherwell), Dardanelles, Demerara (British Guiana), Denbeath, Denny, Detroit (Michigan), Dingwall, Donegal, Dores, Dornoch (Sutherland), Doune, Dover, Dreghorn, Dublin, Duddingston, Dufftown, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunblane, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dunkeld, Dunluce, Dunoon, Durness (Sutherland), Easdale, East Africa, East Ham, Eastham, Edderton, Eddrachillis (Sutherland), Edinburgh, Egypt, Elgin, Embo (Sutherland), Enzie, Errol, Esknish (Islay), Falkirk, Farr (Sutherland), Fauldhouse, Fochabers, Fodderty, Forfar, Fort George, Fortrose, France and Flanders, Fyzabad (India), Galashiels, Gallipoli, Galston, Gateshead, Glasgow, Glencorse, Golspie (Sutherland), Gore (N.Z.), Gosforth, Govan (Glasgow), Grainge, Grangemouth, Great Lakes (Illinois), Great Missenden, Greenock, Gretna, Greyabbey, Gullane, Haddington, Halifax, Halkirk (Caithness), Hamilton, Harris (Outer Hebrides), Helensburgh, Herne Hill, Holytown, Hounslow, India, Inver (Ross-shire), Inveravon, Invergordon, Inverness, Inverurie, Islay, Isle of Rum, Islington, Italy, Jamestown, Jarrow, Johnstone, Keig, Keighley, Keith, Kensington, Kennoway, Kew, Kilarrow (Islay), Kilcalmonell, Killarney, Kilmarnock, Kimberley, King's Somborne, Kinlochbervie (Sutherland), Kinlochleven, Kirkcaldy, Kirkintilloch, Kirkmahoe, Kirkwall (Orkney), Kirton, Kyle of Lochalsh, Kyleakin (Skye), Lairg (Sutherland), Lambeth, Lambourn, Lanark, Largs, Larkhall, Larne, Latheron (Caithness), Leeds, Leith, Lerwick (Shetland), Leslie, Lewes, Liberton, Linlithgow, Liverpool, Loch Hope (Hope Lodge), Loch Inchard, Lochboisdale (South Uist), Lochee (Dundee), Lochgilphead, Lochinchart, Lochinvar, Lochs (Isle of Lewis), Lochstone, Logie Easter, London, Londonderry, Loth (Sutherland), Macclesfield, Maidstone, Malta, Manchester, Markinch, Maryhill (Glasgow), Maxwelltown, Melvich (Sutherland), Mesopotamia, Methil, Mill Hill, Milton (Glasgow), Moasca, Montrose, Morningside, Morpeth, Motherwell, Mudros, Muir of Ord, Muiravonside, Muirkirk, Musselburgh, Nairn, New Cumnock, New Machar, New Pitsligo, New Shildon, Newbury, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Newfoundland, Newington (Edinburgh), Newton, Newton Abbot, Nigg (Ross-shire), North Shields, Northampton, Nottingham, Oatlaw, Oban, Old Kilpatrick, Old Machar, Old Meldrum, Old Monkland, Paisley, Palestine, Peebles, Penicuik, Persian Gulf, Perth, Peterhead, Petty, Plumstead, Plymouth, Point (Isle of Lewis), Pollokshaws, Pontefract, Port Chalmers (N.Z.), Port Dundas, Port Ellen (Islay), Port Glasgow, Port Said, Portrush, Prestonpans, Prozey Croy, Pulteneytown (Wick), Ramsbottom, Rathven, Reading, Reay, Renton, Rickmansworth, Riverton (N.Z.), Rogart (Sutherland), Roslin, Rosskeen, Rotherham, Rothesay, Rutherglen, Ruthin, Ryecroft, Salonika, Salford, Sawston, Scotland Gate, Scourie (Sutherland), Scullomie (Tongue), Shirley, Silvertown, Sinai, Skerray (Tongue), Small Heath, South Uist, Southwark, Sparkbrook, Speybay, St. Andrews, St. Chads, St. Clement's, St. George, St. John's, St. Mary's, St. Matthew's, St. Nicholas, St. Pancras, St. Peter's, Stanley, Stevenston, Stirling, Stornoway (Isle of Lewis), Stranraer, Stratford, Strathy & Strathy Point (Sutherland), Suez, Swansea, Sydney (N.S.W.), Tain (Ross-shire), Tarbert (Harris), Tayport, Thurso (Caithness), Tiree, Tongue (Sutherland), Totnes, Tottenham, Tradeston, Trentham (N.Z.), Uig (Isle of Lewis), Ullapool, Ulverston, Uphall, Urray (Ross-shire), Vimy, Walworth, Wanganui (N.Z.), Warrington, Washington D.C., Watford, Watten (Caithness), Wembley, West Hanney, West Hartlepool, West Thurrock, Whitehall, Whitletts, Wick (Caithness), Winnipeg (Manitoba), Winson Green, Wishaw, Woolwich, Workington, Worthing, York.