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]