JONATHAN MACKEY

Today we begin our study of our 7th great grandparents who were born around the mid 1650s. Jonathan Mackey was born in the County Down in Ireland c. 1615. County Down is the most northern county of Ireland, making it the closest county to Scotland  where the Mackey clan had formerly migrated from Strathnaver County, Scotland. Many Scotch clansmen were forced to leave Scotland to live in northern Ireland in the early 1600s.  I assume that Jonathan's parents were  probably part of that movement.

Jonathan evidently married but his wife's name is unknown. We do know that Jonathan and his wife had at least one child, our ancestor, John Mackey, who lived in County Down, Ireland.  In a previously written blog about John Mackey, I told the story of John's  witnessing an important battle there when he was a young boy.

JONATHAN MACKEY
BORN: c. 1615 in , County Down, Ireland
MARRIED: unknown
DIED: unknown
SOURCE: Wayne D. Mackey, editor and publisher of "The Mackey and Allied Families of Franklin County, and Horse Valley" A Family History. Wayne D. Mackey, Jr. of 920 Cypress St., Chambersburg, PA. Contributors: Edna Rife Mackey, wife of Amos Mackey, Jr.; John E. Leberknight, son of Ethel Mackey; Robert Mackey, son of Wilbur Mackey, Gretchen Mackey, dau. of John Franklin Mackey, Jr. 2006