McKAY – John 96th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	McKAY – John
Regiment (s)	96th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	1064
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	29th August 1836 / 15 years / Glasgow Scotland Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 6 in Dark / Hazel / Dark Brown /
Overseas Service/Duration	Australian Colonies – 7 years 10 months East Indies – 6 years 1 month Gibraltar – 10 months
Length of Service	21 years 29 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Corporal / 25th March 1861 / Dublin Ireland
Campaign Medals	None
Intended Residence at Discharge	20 Candleriggs Street Glasgow Scotland
Pension Districts	1861 2nd Glasgow 1862 Bermuda (in transit) 1863-1871 Western Australia
Pension Paid	1/3d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	30th October 1862 Gravesend England (via Bermuda)
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	MERCHANTMAN 15th February 1863
Date/Place of Birth	29th August 1821 North Leith Leith Scotland
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	McKAY Donald Not yet known
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	HUPONT Mary Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	PATTON Isabella c1836 Glasgow Scotland
Date/Place of Marriage	6th June 1862 Glasgow Scotland
Children by 1^st Wife	Mary Janet or Janet Mary B 14th August 1867 Western Australia M WATSON James1889 Western Australia D 6th February 1946 Western Australia bur Spiritualist Section Karrakatta Cemetery Western Australia
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	PATTON / PATON John Not yet known
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	WATSON Janet Not yet known
2nd Husband of Wife	GARDNER (GARDINER) John – Honourable East India Company arrived “LORD DALHOUSIE 1863”
Date/Place of Marriage	1872 Western Australia
Children by 2^ndHusband	John Donald McKay B 24th December 1872 Western Australia M CROWTHER Margaret 28th December 1913 Western Australia D 4th August 1934 Perth Western Australia Ernest B 1873 Western Australia M SELBIE Matilda 20th October 1897 Residence of WH Gorman Port Adelaide South Australia D 15th July 1934 Port Adelaide SA Bur Cheltenham Cemetery SA Isabella B 1874 Western Australia M OLDHAM John 1899 Cottesloe Western Australia D 28th July 1946 Victoria Park Western Australia Agnes B 1877 Western Australia D 10th September 1877 Western Australia B East Perth Cemeteries Western Australia
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	West Australian Friday 21st August 1908 – page 7 The West Australian Saturday 3rd August 1946 page 1 Death of Isabella Oldham
Departure from Western Australia	Not applicable
Date/Place of Death/Burial	31st August 1871 Western Australia East Perth Cemeteries Western Australia
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	18th August 1908 127 Summers Street East Perth Western Australia Congregational Section East Perth Cemeteries Western Australia
Will or Probate	SROWA Cons 3403 1908/169 (see below)
Further Information	British Army Worldwide index 1851 John McKay 1064 Drummer, fifer or bugler 96th Foot location Lahore Discharge due to Chronic rheumatism In the 1861 Census John McKay, pensioner, age 39 is a visitor at the home of James and Elizabeth Welsh at 20 Candleriggs street Glasgow. Isabella Paton [born Ayr in 1836 daughter of Janet (nee Watson) & John Paton] a domestic servant, married John McKay a Calenderer (operator of a roller machine for glazing and smoothing paper) at the Church of Scotland St James Road Glasgow on 6 June 1862. Both were residing at 20 Candelriggs Street . Conduct of both John and Isabella McKay was recorded by the Surgeon Superintendent of the Merchantman as being Very Good. On 22nd May 1908 Isabella Gardner wrote her will bequeathing all her worldly possessions to her son John Donald McKay Gardner and naming him executor. The estate consisted of land and buildings valued at £1285/10/0 with debts of 500/3/0 making the value of the estate £785/7/0. The land was 3 pieces of land consisting of 2 roods 3 perches subdivision 32 &33 of Perth suburban lot 162 with frontages to Claisebrook Road and Summer Street with a 4 roomed villa, another smaller 4 roomed cottage and a small cottage of 3 rooms. If John Donald was to die unmarried the residue of the estate would go to her granddaughter. Janet Mary McKay was 4 years old when her father died, they were living on the Mezzanine floor of the Perth pensioner Barracks. Her mother Isabella McKay married John Gardner, pensioner, after the death of his first wife Isabella (Lawson). Isabella McKay had nursed Isabella Gardner (Lawson) before her death. Janet McKay attended school at the Barracks and was taught music and played the organ at St. Georges Terrace Presbyterian Church-later Trinity. (Information from Evelyn Morgan letter dated 2014)