Isabella McKay of Cumberland County, like many Burwell students, awaits to be discovered.
Flora McKay and Isabella McKay could have been cousins. Both names are found in the family of Neill McKay of Cumberland County, whose will of August 18, 1830, names his wife, Flora McKay, and daughter, Flora Isabella McKay, and son, Rev. Neill McKay, [Jr.] Rev. Neill McKay, [Jr.] became a patron of the Burwell School in 1850. Flora McKay may have been the daughter of Rev. Neill McKay, [Jr.] brother, John McKay.
The Fayettevile Observer of July 2, 1850, carried the marriage announcement of an Isabella McKay, daughter of the late Dr. Edward McKay and M. McRae of Robeson County. Robeson County adjoins Cumberland County. This Isabella McKay may have been the Burwell student [1].
(sister or cousin, b. 1834) [1].