Matthew Edmond McCoy

Matthew Edmond McCoy (2 June 1868 - December 1929) served as Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of Pitcairn Island in 1909. He was the son of James Russell McCoy and Eliza Coffin Palmer Young, and was the grandson of Matthew McCoy. He was one of the last people on the island with the surname 'McCoy', most people with this name had emigrated to Norfolk Island, New Zealand or Australia. And the family produced a lot of daughters. McCoy himself had 3 children by 3 women, he had two sons who took the surnames 'Christian' and 'Young'.^[1]

Ancestry

External links

• http://thepeerage.com/p16465.htm#i164642

References

1. ^ The Peerage

Political offices
Preceded by William Alfred Young	Magistrate of the Pitcairn Islands 1909	Succeeded by Gerard Bromley Robert Christian

Persondata
Name	Maccoy, Matthew Edmond
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Date of birth	2 June 1868
Place of birth
Date of death	1929
Place of death