Family
In the North West, McKay took a country wife, Josette Latour. In 1808, at Montreal, he married Eliza Davidson, daughter of Judge Arthur Davidson (1743-1807) and his first wife, Jane, daughter of Alexander Fraser (1729-1799), former officer in the 78th Fraser Highlanders and afterwards Seigneur of La Martinière, Vitré and Saint-Gilles. McKay died of cholera in 1832, and was survived by one son,
- Robert McKay, was a lawyer at Montreal. He inherited the Seigneury of Saint-Gilles de Beaurivage, from his maternal uncle Walter Davidson (1790-1835), later selling it to his uncle, David Ross.
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