David McNally was born in Scotland. His family was from Ireland, but moved to Scotland during the potato famine and then migrated to Toronto, Canada. David and his brother Daniel came to California by boat, around the horn. He and Susan made their home in the Red Mountain Area and later lived at Bootjack, which he named because the road forked right there and looked like a boot jack. David McNally mined and ranched, sometimes in partnership with his father-in-law. He developed the Silver Bar Mine, at that time the only silver mine in Mariposa County.
5801880 United States Census
Marital Birth B-place
Name Rel Status Sex Race Age place Occup Fa Mo
David MCNALLEY Self M M W 29 SCOTLAND Farmer IRE IRE
Susan A. MCNALLEY Wife M F W 25 MO Keep House TN GA
Nancy C. MCNALLEY Dau S F W 6 CA SCOTLAND MO
Walter MCNALLEY Son S M W 4 CA SCOTLAND MO
Margaret MCNALLEY Dau S F W 2 CA SCOTLAND MO
Henry MCNALLEY Son S M W 6M CA SCOTLAND MO
Source Information:
Census Place Township 3, Mariposa, California
Family History Library Film 1254068
NA Film Number T9-0068
Page Number 174C