Talk:Æneas baron Mackay

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[edit] Scottish?

His name sounds like a Scottish one. Did a lot of Scots emigrate and become active in Dutch politics in the early 19th century? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.197.227.113 (talk) 20:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

• The Mackay family was an old Scottish noble family, tracing its family tree back to the Middle Ages. The first Mackay in the Netherlands was a commander of the Scottish Brigade employed by the Dutch government in the 1690s. Two of his great-grandsons (and there off-spring) were elevated in the Dutch nobility after the formation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. The Mackay family was prominent in the military, government, and business all through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Michel Doortmont (talk) 20:09, 25 April 2008 (UTC)