MACKAY, ? [SSNE 472]

Surname

MACKAY

First name

?

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

A lieutenant Mackay served first as in Colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment in Danish-Norwegian service in 1628. He subsequently entered Swedish service and was later promoted captain in Patrick Ruthven's [SSNE 3413] regiment

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.127 ; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p. 187.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1628-03-31, as LIEUTENANT

Departed 1629-10-10, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, PATRICK RUTHVEN

Arrived 1630-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1632-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY