Cindy--

Regarding your recent post to the list on McCoy/Kay families, I have a
question for you:  Have you ever encountered McCoy and McCay/McKay to be
interchangeable for the same family?

As improbable as this may sound, I have noticed in looking at Rev. War
pension abstracts (Virgil White's series) that McKay and McCoy are
cross-listed since several veterans with these names used both spellings
in their pension applications.

Although I am not a McKay, etc. descendant, I am interested in this
family in that a Daniel McKay (family Bible spells it "Mackay") married
into my Stanley family in SC. Daniel McKay was a Rev. soldier from NY
who ended up in SC.  The McKays and Stanleys were associated in
Spartanburg Co. and then moved together to old Pendleton Dist (the part
that became Anderson Co.).  They then moved into GA together in the
early 1800s.  Then, one of the Stanley branches moved up to Arkansas;
there were "McCoys" who intermarried with this branch and moved with
them. I have wondered if this particular McCoy family is really part of
the McCay/McKay family of SC.

Donna Sarchet


 
>  I have several KAY names in the McCoy-McConnell line from the Anderson, SC
> Cindy

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