Person:James MacKinlay (2)

Name	James MacKinlay, the Trooper
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	2 Jan 1671	Callander, Perthshire, Scotland"the Annie"
Marriage	Bet 1697 and 1700	to Rachel Niveen
Death`^?`	1760	Ireland

References

[1], in Claypool, Edward A. Synopis of the line of descendants of President McKinley, from MacDuff, Thane of Fife: this synopsis is from "The Scotch ancestors of President McKinley," a neat twenty-five cent booklet recently issued by Edward A. Claypool, a Chicago genealogist. (Chicago, Illinois, 1897).

... 26. “ James, the Trooper,” went to Ireland as guide to the victorious army of William III. at the Battle the Boyne, 1690. Settled in Ireland, and was ancestor of a large portion of the Irish McKinleys. ...
Betty Jo McDowell Garrett papers.

James (The Trooper) MacKinlay went to Ireland acting as a guide to the victorious army of William III at the battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690.

He married probably 1697-1700, and settled in Ireland, becoming the ancestor of a large portion of the Irish McKinleys.

At first it was supposed that James McKinley, Jr., born in Ireland in 1708, who settled in Pennsylvania, and died at the home of his great granddaughter, Mrs. Eleanor (Wiles) Goodwin, in Warren County, Ohio, in 1812, at the age of 104 years, was the ancestor of President McKinley, but later developments point to an elder son, David McKinley.

Children of James MacKinlay are:

- William 27 McKinley.
- David McKinley, born 1705 in Dervock, North Ireland; died 1757 in Chanceford Township, York County,
- Donald Ian McKinley, born 1707 in Conagher, Ballymore, Ulster, North Ireland.
-James McKinley, born 1708 in Dervock, North Ireland; died 1812 in Warren County, Ohio.