Lochend, served first as an officer in Murray Keith's Highland
Regiment, and was subsequently, in September 1780, appointed
Major in the 78th or Seaforth Highlanders. He was on Sir David
Baird's Staff in India, and was present at the storming of Seringapatam.
In 1783 he was promoted to the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel.
In 1791 he was killed near Inverness, by the upsetting of a coach
in which he was a passenger. He married Christina, daughter of
Captain Hector Munro of Braemore, with issue -
1. John, a Captain in the army, who married Miss Fraser, with
issue - George, a Lieutenant in the 2nd or Queen's Regiment, who
died, unmarried, in Madras; and Poyntz, Lieutenant 79th Cameron
Highlanders, who died, unmarried, in North America, in 1843.
2. Poyntz, Paymaster 72nd Highlanders, who died unmarried, at
Antigua, in the West Indies.
3. Alexander, who joined the army on the 9th of September, 1795,
as Ensign in the 39th Regiment. He obtained his Lieutenancy on
the 27th of February, 1796, was in June 1802 exchanged to the 60th
Rifles, and on the 27th of April, 1809, promoted to a Captaincy
in the 81st Regiment. During this period he saw much service in
the Peninsula, and was subsequently engaged in the expedition to
Flushing, for which he received the war medal with four clasps.
On the 31st of October, 1811, he exchanged to the York Light
Infantry, then serving in Jamaica; was placed on half-pay on the
reduction of that regiment on the 19th of March, 1817; appointed
to the Royal Newfoundland Companies on the formation of that corps
on the 25th of July, 1824, and promoted to the rank of Major in
July, 1830. He retired from the Army in 1836 and died in Canada
in 1852. He married, first, Eliza, daughter of Captain John
Sutherland, of Shiberscross, Sutherlandshire, with issue - (1)
Mary Maxwell, who married Garland Crawford Gordon, St. John's,
Newfoundland with issue. She (Mary Maxwell) died in 1852. Major
Alexander married, secondly, Eliza Frances, daughter of William
Brown, of Lucea, Jamaica, with issue - (2) ALEXANDER WILLIAM
MACKENZIE, Lieutenant-Colonel, who joined the 1st West India
Regiment as Ensign, on the 3rd of February, 1839, and obtained
his Captaincy on the 1st of January, 1847. He retired from this
regiment in January, 1850, but was re-appointed to the Service as
Regimental Paymaster in December 1854 - a position in which
he subsequently served in the 48th, 54th, 3rd West India and the
21st and 18th Regiments, until he was transferred to the Army
Pay Department on the 1st of April, 1878. He was promoted to
the rank of Major on the 6th of February, 1862, and to that of
Lieutenant-Colonel on the 1st of October, 1882. He married, first,
Selina Martha, fourth daughter of Captain William Webster late
of the 1st West India and 76th Regiments, by his wife, Marie
Gabrielle, daughter of Charles Parseille, M.D., of Brittany,
and grand-daughter of the Countess De Mariset, with issue - (a)
Alexander William Webster Mackenzie, Lieutenant in the 100th
Regiment, who married Jessie Glen Rae, daughter of Captain Hector
Munro, 2nd Queen's and Royal Canadian Rifles, son of Captain
John Munro of the Sutherland Militia, without Issue. He died in
Canada on the 16th of October, 1867, and his wife was lost at sea
in September, 1870, on the passage from Canada to Britain; (b)
Rowland Poyntz Mackenzie, who married Rosalie MacEwen, daughter
of William Wainwright, of Trinidad, with issue - Alexander William,
who went to Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, on the 5th
of May, 1892, and is in the Commercial National Bank there. The
daughters were Selina Margaret, who married Henneage Goldie Pasea
of Strathearn Lodge, Trinidad; and Rosalie Miriam Gray. He died
in Trinidad on the 22nd of May, 1877; (c) Charles William Beverley
Mackenzie, late of the 71st Highland Light Infantry, Assistant
Commissary General. He married Selina Janet, daughter of Alexander
Gray, of Lanark, for many years a resident proprietor in Trinidad,
and a member of the Legislative Council of that island, without
issue. His wife died in Ireland on the 18th of October, 1880,
and he died at Gibraltar on the 12th of August, 1884; (d) George
Ker Mackenzie, of the Agra Bank, India, now residing in Bedford,
England. He married Jamesina Greig, daughter of Hugh Fraser,
a native of Kingussie, for many years a resident proprietor in
Calcutta, with issue - George Fraser, who died in infancy; Hugh
Fraser; Charles Fraser Alexander Fraser, who died in childhood;
and Selina Fraser; (e) Evelina Gray, who married Colonel Charles
Hill Jones, of the 54th Regiment, who died, without issue, on
the 3rd of September, 1876, while in command of the 13th and 14th
Sub-Districts at Liverpool. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander William
Mackenzie's first wife died at Folkstone, on the 13th of December,
1890, and he married, secondly, Mary Jane, daughter of Thomas
Crawford, coal-owner, Little Town House, Durham. (3) George John
Poyntz Mackenzie, a resident proprietor, and for several years a
member of the Legislative Council of Trinidad. He married Emily,
daughter of a Mr Williams, of that island, with issue; (4) Innes
Munro Mackenzie, who died in infancy; (5) Innes Munro Mackenzie,
who married Sarah Nicholson, Lewes, Sussex, and latterly of Toronto,
Canada, with issue; (6) Wemyss Erskine Sutherland Mackenzie, who
married Eliza Marache, Trinidad, with issue. He died in 1872 at La
Guyra, Spanish Main, South America; (7) Norman Leslie Mackenzie,
who married Catherine Forsyth, Trinidad, with issue. He was drowned
in the Gulf of Paria, in 1858, by the upsetting of a sailing-boat
in which he was proceeding from Port of Spain to San Fernando;
(8) the Rev. Garland Crawford Mackenzie, Rural Dean of Brant,
Ontario, Canada, who married Helen, daughter of the Rev. Michael
Boomer, Dean of Ontaria, with issue; (9) Eliza Francis Cressy,
who married Henry Lord, M.D., Canada, with issue. She died in
1851; (10) Lydia, who married Henry Rowland Hanning, Danville,
Canada, without issue. She died in 1857.
4. Eliza (eldest daughter of Colonel George Mackenzie), married
her cousin, the distinguished Colonel Alexander Mackenzie, fourth
son of William Mackenzie, IV. of Gruinard, with issue - Captain
George, who was killed in action, unmarried, and Alexanderina,
who married Alexander Grove, M.D., R.N., Greenwich Hospital, with
issue.
5. Lilias, who married Captain Macgregor of the 18th Regiment,
without issue.
6. Georgina, who married a Mr Euracht, without issue.
7. Christina, who married Angus Macleod, Banff, with issue.
8. Annabella, who married Captain John Munro of Kirkton, with
issue.
THE MACKENZIES OF LETTERWE.
I. CHARLES MACKENZIE, first of Letterewe, was the eldest son by
his third wife, Janet, daughter of John Cuthbert of Castle Hill,
Inverness (marriage contract, 17th December, 1658), of Alexander
Mackenzie, VI. of Gairloch. He is originally designed of Mellan
Charles, no doubt so called after himself, but by his father's
marriage contract he got Loggie-Wester, now Conon, which he
afterwards, in 1696, exchanged with his half brother, Alexander
Mackenzie, VII. of Gairloch, for the lands of Letterewe. He
married, in 1684, Anne, third daughter of John Mackenzie, II. of
Applecross (sasine 1687), with issue -
1. Murdoch, his heir and successor.
2. The Rev. Hector, minister of Fodderty, and previous to his
appointment there, Librarian to the University of Aberdeen. He
married a Miss Baillie, with issue - a daughter, who married
Mackenzie of Park.
3. Alexander of Tolly, Provost of Dingwall, who married in 1740,
Annabella, daughter of Sir Donald Bayne of Tulloch, with issue,
among others - Alexander, from whom the Mackenzies of Portmore, and
by his second wife, Katharine, daughter of Bayne of Delny, Bailie
Hector Mackenzie of Dingwall, on whose death Alexander Campbell,
the Gairloch Bard, composed one of the finest elegies in the Gaelic
language.
4. Anna, who married Murdoch Mackenzie, II. of Kernsary (marriage
contract in 1708), with issue.
5. A daughter, who married her cousin, Roderick Mackenzie, II.
of Sanachan, son of Colin, second son of Roderick Mackenzie, I.
of Applecross.
6. Annabella, who married John Maciver of Tournaig, and afterwards
tacksman of Gress, in the Lewis, with issue.
Charles was succeeded by his eldest son,
II. MURDOCH MACKENZIE, second of Letterewe. He fought at the
battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715, and at Glenshiel in 1719. When
a very old man he was determined to be out again in 1745, but
according to a family tradition his wife prevented him by pouring
hot water on his feet, as if by accident, and scalded him so much
that he was unable to walk. He married his cousin, Catharine,
daughter of Simon Mackenzie, I. of Torridon and Lentran, widow
of John Mackenzie, Dalmartin, who was killed at Sheriffmuir, and,
it is also said, of Roderick Mackenzie of Auldeny, with issue -
1. John, his heir and successor.
2. Janet, who married Alexander Mackenzie of Sand. (Sasine to
her in 1744).
3. Anne, who married the Rev. James Robertson, the famous "Ministear
Laidir" of Lochbroom, with issue - six sons and two daughters, one
of whom was James Robertson, Collector of Customs at Stornoway. He
married his cousin, Annabella, eldest daughter of John Mackenzie,
III. of Letterewe, with issue - three sons - (1) Captain James
Robertson-Walker, R.N., late of Gilgarran, Cumberland,
who married his cousin, Katherine, daughter of John Mackenzie,
Sheriff-Substitute of the Lewis, without issue. He died in 1858.
(2) Murdoch, who married, with issue - James Robertson, who, like
his uncle, took in addition the name of Walker on his succession
as proprietor to the estate of Gilgarran, on the death of his aunt
in 1892. He is married, with issue - James Austin, Murdo, and two
daughters; (3) John, a noted Captain in the Merchant Service,
celebrated for his quick passages with racing tea clippers between
China and this country. He was also married with issue - a son,
Francis Shand Robertson, residing at Richmond, Surrey, who married
his cousin, Mary, daughter of Evander MacIver, factor for the
Duke of Sutherland at Scourie and another great-grandson of the
Strong Minister, with issue, and a daughter Annie, who married W.
Napier.
Murdoch, who died at a very old age, was succeeded by his only
son,
III. JOHN MACKENZIE, third of Letterewe, who married his cousin,
Katherine, daughter of Alexander Mackenzie of Tolly, Provost of
Dingwall, with issue -
1. Murdoch, his heir and successor.
2. Alexander, who succeeded his brother Murdoch.
3. John, for many years the popular Sheriff-Substitute of the Lewis
district of Ross-shire, and subsequently tacksman of Shieldaig,
Gairloch.
He married Johanna, daughter of Alexander Mackenzie of Badachro,
by his wife, a daughter of the Rev. James Robertson of Lochbroom,
with issue - (1) the late John Mackenzie of Auchenstewart, Wishaw,
and subsequently of Ardlair, Edinburgh, who married in Australia,
Anna Baird, who died at Wishaw on the 7th of November, 1885, with
issue - an only son, John Alexander Mackenzie, now of Ardlair,
Edinburgh. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Sinclair,
Newark, U.S.A., formerly of Glasgow, with issue - John Baird;
Alexander Livingston Munro; Elizabeth Margaret, who died young;
Anna Louisa; Elizabeth Louttit; and Katharine May. John of
Auchenstewart died at Ardlair, Edinburgh, on the 25th of December,
1890.
Sheriff Mackenzie married, secondly, Christina, daughter of the
Rev. Hugh Munro, minister of Uig, Lewis (representative of the
Munroes of Erribol, Sutherlandshire), with issue - (2) John Munro
Mackenzie of Mornish, Mull, who, born in 1819, married in 1846,
Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Patrick Chalmers, Wishaw,
brother of the celebrated Dr Thomas Chalmers of the Disruption,
with issue - (a) John Hugh Munro, who, on the 23rd of June,
1875, married Jeanie Helen, second daughter of Thomas Chalmers,
Longcroft, Linlithgowshire, with issue - John Munro; Thomas
Chalmers; Hugh Munro; Kenneth; Jean Elizabeth; Christina Marion;
and Kathlene Harriet. (b) Patrick Chalmers, who was born on
the 4th of May, 1862, and on the 31st of October, 1882, married
Mary Kathlene, third daughter of Thomas Chalmers, of Longcroft,
Linlithgowshire, with issue - Patrick Harry, born on the 15th of
March, 1889; Isabel Grace and Mary Mona. (c) Harriet, who on
the 5th of July, 1870, married James Scott, of Garrion Tower,
Lanarkshire, with issue - Munro Mackenzie, born on the 2nd of March,
1872 James Harry, born on the 27th of September, 1873; William
Patrick, born on the 18th of March, 1880; Elizabeth; and Harriet
Carige, who died in her twelfth year on the 17th of April, 1889.
(d) Christina Marion, who died unmarried at Cannes in January,
1881; and (e) Helen Mary, who, in April, 1883, married Dr John
Aymers Macdougall of Ann, Berwickshire, and Villa Letterewe,
Cannes, France, with issue - Christina Marion Mackenzie; Helen
Mary Mackenzie; and Sheila Aymers. John Munro of Mornish died at
Garrion Tower, Wishaw, on the 26th of November, 1893. (3) Hugh
Munro Mackenzie, of Distington, Cumberland, who married Alexa,
daughter of the late Captain Martin Macleod, of Drynoch, Ontario,
Canada, with issue - Martin Edward; Hugh Munro; Christina; Jeanie;
and Kate. Hugh Munro, of Distington, died on the 25th of January,
1885. (4) Katharine, who married her cousin, Captain James
Robertson-Walker, R.N., of Gilgarran, Cumberland. She died on
the 21st of December, 1892, without issue.
4. Annabella, who married her cousin, James Robertson, Collector
of Customs at Stornoway, son of the "Ministear Laidir" of Lochbroom,
with issue, among others - Katharine, who married Lewis Mac Iver, of
Gress, representative of the Mac Ivers of Tournaig and Leckmelm, with
issue - (1) Evander MacIver, now factor for the Duke of Sutherland
at Scourie, who married Mary, daughter of Donald Macdonald, then
of Skeabost, Isle of Skye, with issue - (a) James Robertson, M.D.,
who died in India, unmarried; (b) Donald, factor for Lord Falmouth,
who died unmarried; (c) Duncan Davidson, a settler at Ellisdale,
Victoria, who married Florence Eastwood, Ballarat, with issue - Evander
and Mary; (d) Lewis, formerly in the Bank of Madras, and now
of Blackburn, Lancashire, who married Margaret MacAll there; (e)
Evander, who died young; (f) Murdo Robertson, who married, with
issue - two sons, John, Evander, and two daughters, who, with their
mother survive him; (g) John Macdonald, a settler in the Cape
of Good Hope, married, without issue; and (h) Mary, who married
her cousin, Francis Shand Robertson, residing at Chiswick,
with issue - Evander Shand, Duncan, and two daughters; (2) James
Robertson MacIver, merchant, Stornoway, married, but died without
male issue; (3) John MacIver, banker at Dingwall, afterwards Secretary
of the Bank of Madras, in India, and now residing at Dover. He
married Eliza Doherty of Coleraine, Ireland, with issue - (a) Lewis,
late of the Indian Civil Service, Barrister-at-law, and M.P.
for Torquay during the short Parliament of 1885-86. He was born
on the 6th of March, 1846, and married on the 11th of September,
1884, Charlotte Rosalind, daughter of Nathaniel Montefiore,
F.R.S., of Coldeast, Hants, a grand-niece of the late Sir Moses
Montefiore, with issue, two daughters - Marjorie Barabel Ruth and
Nathalie Esther; (b) Iver Ian, a squatter in Queensland, who married
a daughter of George Dill, one of the founders of the "Melbourne
Argus," with issue - four children, the eldest of whom is a boy named
Ian; (4) Lewis Maciver, a Liverpool merchant, who married, with
issue - (a) James Walker, a Civil Engineer, and (b) another son;
(5) William Walker MacIver, who died at Hong Kong, unmarried; (6)
Murdo Robertson MacIver, who also died unmarried; (7) Alexander
MacIver, Agent for the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company,
first at Madras and afterwards at Hong Kong, who married Marjory,
daughter of Captain Hector Gunn, of the Black Watch, with issue - (a)
Alister, in the London office of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steamship Company; (b) Colin, and several daughters. Alexander
died in 1892. (8) Lilias, who married Roderick Macleod, merchant,
Liverpool, with issue - one daughter.
5. Catherine, who married her cousin, Charles, a younger son of
the Rev. James Robertson, and brother of her sister's husband,
Collector James Robertson, of Stornoway, with issue.
6. Anne, who married John Macintyre, tacksman of Letterewe, with
issue.
John was succeeded by his eldest son,
IV. MURDO MACKENZIE, fourth of Letterewe, a Captain in the 78th
Highlanders. He died in India, unmarried, and was succeeded by
his next brother,
V. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, fifth of Letterewe, who married Catherine,
daughter of James Macdonald of Skeabost, with issue -
1. John, his heir and successor.
2. James, a midshipman, H.E.I.C.S., who died unmarried.
3. Murdo, a doctor, H.E.I.C.S., who also died unmarried.
4. Hector, who was an Officer of Customs at the Cape of Good
Hope, and afterwards succeeded his brother in the estate of Letterewe.
5. Donald Alexander, who in early life emigrated to the United
States, and of whom presently.
6. Jessie, who married Donald Macdonald, Lochinver, who afterwards
went to the Cape of Good Hope and died at Southsea in 1888,
leaving issue - (1) Donald, C.E., at the Cape, who married, and has
issue - two sons and a daughter. (2) Alexander James, of Milland,
Hants, who, in 1866, married Caroline, daughter of John Heugh, of
Port Elizabeth, South Africa, with issue - Ione and Thyra. (3)
Murdo, who, in 1869, married Laura, daughter of J. Foley, sculptor,
London, with issue - Flora; Alexander; Charles; Somerled; and
Ronald. (4) Katherine, who in 1849 married the late James Somers
Kirkwood, merchant at Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, with
issue - (1) Donald, who married first, in 1866, Helen, daughter of
Thomas Read, of Trouse, Norwich, with issue - Donald. He married,
secondly, Cornelia, daughter of R. Restall, of Uitenhague, South
Africa, with issue - Hector and Hellen; (2) Charles; (3) Alexander;
(4) Reginald; (5) Annie, who married Archibald Merilees, Moscow; and
(6) Jessie, who married Walter Somerville Lockhart, of Clydesdale,
with issue - Lawrence.
7. Katherine, who died unmarried.
8. Emily, who resided in London, unmarried.
Alexander was succeeded by his eldest son,
VI. JOHN MACKENZIE, a Writer to the Signet, in Edinburgh, where he
died unmarried, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving brother,
VII. HECTOR MACKENZIE, seventh of Letterewe. In 1835 he sold
the estate to Meyrick Bankes of Winstanley Hall, Lancashire. He
died, unmarried, in 1860 at Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, when he
was succeeded, as representative of the family, by his youngest
and only surviving brother,
VIII. DONALD ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, a merchant at Dubuque, Iowa,
United States of America, who married, with issue -
1. Charles, who succeeded as representative of the family.
2. Alexander, a Captain of Engineers in the United States Army,
who married in 1872, with issue - a son Donald.
Donald Alexander died in 1872, leaving a widow, who subsequently
resided at Dubuque, when he was succeeded as representative of
the family, by his eldest son,
IX. CHARLES MACKENZIE, a lawyer, now in good practice in the
United States.
The representative of the Mackenzies of Letterewe in this country
is John Alexander Mackenzie, of Ardlair, Edinburgh, only son of
the late John Mackenzie of Auchenstewart, who died in 1890.
THE MACKENZIES OF PORTMORE.
THIS family is descended from Alexander Mackenzie of Tolly, grandson
of Kenneth Mackenzie, VI. of Gairloch, and third son of Charles
Mackenzie of Loggie-Wester, and subsequently I. of Letterewe, by
Anne, daughter of John Mackenzie, II. of Applecross. He married,
first, Annabella, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Donald Bayne of
Tulloch; and their descendants, as representatives of that ancient
family, bear its cognisance on the centre of their shield, a wolf's
head proper. He was a Bailie and afterwards Provost of Dingwall,
exercised considerable local and political influence, and greatly aided
Lord Macleod, son of George Earl of Cromarty, in his candidature
for the county of Ross, as may be seen from the Cromarty Papers.
During an election riot which occurred in Dingwall in 1751, Mrs
Mackenzie, whilst looking out of a window of her own house, was
accidentally shot. By her Provost Mackenzie had issue -
1. Alexander, I. of Portmore.
2. Katharine, who married her cousin, John Mackenzie, III. of
Letterewe, with issue.
3. Charlotte, who married the Rev. John Downie, minister of
Gairloch, subsequently of Urray, with issue.
He married, secondly, Katharine, daughter of Bayne of Delny, with
issue -
4. Ronald, a Captain in the Army, who died in Ireland, without
issue.
5. Hector, a well-known and highly-popular Bailie of Dingwall,
who married, first, Anne, daughter of the Rev. Colin Mackenzie,
minister of Fodderty, and I. of Glack, with issue - (1) Alexander,
a merchant in London, who married his cousin, Catherine, daughter
of Kenneth Mackenzie, of Millbank, with issue - two daughters,
Catherine, who married Major Roderick Mackenzie, VII. of Kincraig
and Ann, who married the Rev. John Macdonald of Calcutta, an
eminent divine; (2) Colin, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who died
without issue; (3) Henry, who died unmarried; (4) Hectorina, who
died at Dingwall, unmarried, in 1850. Bailie Mackenzie married
secondly, a daughter of Mackenzie, Ussie, with issue - (5) Jane,
who married John Mackenzie; (6) Annabella, who married William
Kemp, of Comrie; (7) Anne, who married Kenneth Mackenzie, of
Millbank.
Alexander of Tolly died in 1774 and, along with his wife, Annabella,
is interred in the family burying-place at Dingwall.
I. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, his eldest son and heir, who was born
on the 5th of February, 1740, and afterwards became first of
Portmore, settled as a W.S. in Edinburgh; but all his life he
kept up a close connection with his native county, having intimate
business relations with all its principal landowners. He was a
man of undoubted ability, and the personal friend of many noted
literary men of his day. He purchased the estate of Seaton, in
East Lothian, but afterwards sold it to the Earl of Wemyss, after
which he purchased the estate of Portmore, Peebleshire, from the
Conyears Earls of Portmore. He married on the 25th of February,
1766, Anne, eldest daughter of Colin Mackenzie, VI. of Kilcoy,
by Martha, eldest daughter of Charles Fraser of Inverallochy
and Castle Fraser, whose mother was Lady Marjory Erskine, eldest
daughter of James, seventh Earl of Buchan.
Lady Marjory married secondly, Charles, last Lord Fraser of Castle
Fraser, who, dying without issue, left his estate to his step-son,
Simon Fraser of Inverallochy. On the death, without issue, of
Martha's three brothers, she and her sister Elizabeth became
co-heiresses of Inverallochy and Castle Fraser, and on Elizabeth's
death Martha became sole heiress. She left the estates to her
distinguished son, Lieutenant-General Alexander Mackenzie, who
assumed the additional name of Fraser. Thus the families of Kilcoy
and Portmore deduce descent from the Royal Houses of Stuart and
Plantaganet, as also from the Dukes of Burgundy, and Raymond
Count of Provence. Alexander had issue -
1. Alexander, who died in infancy in 1767.
2. Alexander, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding the 21st Dragoons.
He died before his father at Cape Malo, St. Domingo, West Indies,
in July 1796, aged 27, unmarried.
3. Colin, who succeeded his father at Portmore.
4. John, who was born in 1771, and died young.
5. George Udny, born in 1773, and died young.
6. Charles, born in 1779, and died in 1783.