Said to have ten sons and two or three daughters.

Big David (Davey) of the Temple. In the middle of the 18th century one of the leaders of the McKee family was Dig David of County Down, who was said to have been the largest man in all Ireland (P. 55)

Of these (sons of Hugh) the one most prominent in local history was David, who got a grant of land from the Marquis of Downshire in the townland of Carricknaveagh, on which he built a house known as Moor Hall "on the south side of the Lisburn Road about two minutes' walk from the Temple toward Lisburn". He was known to fame as "Big Davie of the Temple". He dealt in cattle, going up the country and buying a drove which he would take to Scotland and sell.

Big Davie and his May-pole were known and respected in every cattle market in the north of Ireland. His encounters were more numerous that those of Con of the Hundred Battles or of Little John and his crab-tree, and yet they all, without a single exception, ended in a way favorable to himself. When still quite a young man his reputation was such that no one was willing to meet him in pugilistic encounter. Upon receiving a challenge to fight a man with a shillalah, the Irish national weapon, he immediately began the practice of that arm, and was soon able to overcome his challenger. Ever afterwards he carried his stick with him.

His children were James, John, Hugh, Richard and a daughter who married a Mr. Monroe. His great grandson David McKee is now the propietor of Moor Hall and has a large family of sons, Address: Temple, County Down.