Hello, I realise the posting I'm replying to is two years old but I have only recently started looking into my family history and came across it tonight. My grandmother was Christina MacKay born Berriedale 4th January 1895. Her father was Norman Mackay, the blacksmith at Berriedale. The family moved to Arbroath in about 1907, and my grandmother married a Thomas Paterson in Edinburgh in 1922. My mother was born that December, the first of their three children. My gran died in Edinburgh in 1984 still with her Caithness accent. Her brother Donald Mackay was in the 4th Battalion Royal Scots and was killed on 22nd September 1918. He is buried in Moeuvres Communal Cemetery - details from Commonwealth War Graves Commission. My mother is still alive and living in Australia. She was christened Margaret Donald MacKay Paterson, in memory of her uncle. I have a few more bits of information about the Mackays if you are interested.
Tom Smith, now living in the Shetland Islands.
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