and married on the 26th of July, 1821, Ann Grant, great-grand-daughter
of Ludovick Grant, grandson of Sir John Grant of Freuchy, with
issue -
1. William, his heir and successor.
2. John, born on the 18th of November, 1823. He is unmarried.
3. Grace, married John Shand, Rinnachat, without issue.
4. Penuel, who married Patrick Shaw, Benstaak, with issue - several
sons and daughters.
5. Margaret, unmarried.
Thomas died at Lyne of Carron, on the 5th of February, 1861, aged
85, when he was succeeded as representative of the family by his
eldest son,
VII. WILLIAM MACKENZIE, who was born on the 3rd of May, 1822.
He founded the Distillery of Dailuaine in 1851, one of the most
extensive malt distilleries in Scotland. He married on the 5th of
October, 1844, Jean, daughter of William Thomson, Knockando, with
issue -
1. John, born on the 28th of July, 1845. He was drowned at sea,
without issue.
2. William, born on the 9th of October, 1846. He went to the West
Indies and died there unmarried, on the 10th of December, 1893, at
Paramaribo, Surinam.
3. Thomas, who succeeded his father in Dailuaine.
4. Alexander, who was born on the 11th of July, 1851. He is in
South Africa, and still unmarried.
5. William Grant, born on the 21st of June, 1859, and still
unmarried.
6. Lewis Grant, born on the 10th of January, 1862. He went to
California, and is still unmarried.
7. Ann.
8. Jane.
9. Margaret.
10. Grace Penuel, who married Dr Robert Cochrane Buist, Dundee,
with issue - a son and daughter.
11. Mary Forbes.
William died at Dailuaine, on the 17th of May, 1865, and was
succeeded there by his son,
VIII. THOMAS MACKENZIE, now of Dailuaine, and since the death
of his elder brother William in December, 1893, heir-male of the
family. Born on the 18th of March, 1848, he on the 30th of October,
1877, married Emily, daughter of Edwin Holt of Rosehill, Worcestershire.
SLIOCHD ALASTAIR CHAIM.
THE progenitor of this family, not one of whom so far as known ever
owned an acre of land until now, was
I. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, fourth son of Alexander Mackenzie,
V. of Gairloch, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Roderick Mor
Mackenzie, I. of Redcastle, by his wife Florence, daughter of Robert
Munro, XVth Baron of Fowlis. Alexander, like his brother Hector,
was a Cornet in Sir George Munro's Regiment, and according to
one of the Gairloch manuscript Histories was "an officer under
Cromwell, whom he afterwards left, and was wounded on the King's
side at the battle of Worcester, leaving a succession in Gairloch
by his wife Janet, daughter of Mackenzie of Ord." He lost an eye
at Worcester, and was consequently ever after known Alastair Cam.
His descendants are still numerous in Gairloch, where, having had
no land to be designated of, they were always known as "Sliochd
Alastair Chaim" or "The descendants of Alexander the One-Eyed."
He married, in 1652, Janet, third daughter of John Mackenzie, I.
of Ord, [The marriage contract is dated "at Chanonrie, the 21st
of July and 26th of August, 1652," the year after the Battle of
Worcester, and is in the Ord charter chest.] by his wife Isobel,
daughter of Alexander Cuthbert of Drakies, Inverness, with issue -
1. Roderick, his heir.
2. Alexander, commonly called "Alastair Mor Mac Alastair Chaim,"
from whom are descended, among several others in Gairloch, the
late John Mackenzie of the "Beauties of Gaelic Poetry," and Alexander
Mackenzie, the author of this History. ALEXANDER married his
cousin, Mary, daughter of Hector Mackenzie, "Portioner of Mellan,"
with issue - John Mackenzie, locally known as "Ian Mor Mac Alastair
Mhic Alastair Chaim." JOHN MOR married Barbara, daughter of
John Roy Mackenzie, of Sand. He had a tack from Sir Alexander
Mackenzie, second Baronet and IX. of Gairloch, of the half of
North Erradale, in 1760, for twenty years, to begin at Whit-sunday,
1765, and he is described in the lease as then in possession
(see pp. 483-84). By his wife he had issue - seven sons, known as
"Clann Ian Mhoir," said to have been the biggest and most powerful
men in Gairloch in their day - (1) JOHN, "Ian Mor Aireach," who
succeeded his father in a portion of North Erradale, and married
Marsali, or Marjory, daughter of John Ban Mackenzie, Isle of
Ewe, by his wife, Annabella, natural daughter of Sir Alexander
Mackenzie, second Baronet and IX. of Gairloch. By Marsali Mackenzie,
"Ian Mor Aireach" had issue - four sons, Duncan, Murdoch, John Mor
Og, and William, and two daughters - Annabella, who married her
cousin four times removed, Alexander Mackenzie, Melvaig, the
male representative of Alastair Cam, with issue; and Margaret,
who married John Mackenzie, also in Melvaig, with issue - several
sons and daughters. The sons were also married and left numerous
descendants in Gairloch. Ian Mor Mac Alastair's other sons were
(2) Alexander, who died unmarried; (3) Roderick, who married,
with issue; (4) Colin, married, with issue; (5) Roderick Ban,
unmarried; (6) John Og; and (7) Kenneth, married, with issue. JOHN
OG, who was tacksman of Loch-a-Druing, married Jessie, daughter
of Miles Macrae, with issue, among others - Alastair Og Mackenzie,
tacksman of Mellan Charles, who married Margaret, daughter of
Alexander Mackenzie, of Badachro, with issue - James Mackenzie,
who died unmarried a few years ago, at Poolewe; John Mackenzie,
of the "Beauties of Gaelic Poetry" and several other works, who
died, unmarried in his father's house at Kirkton, in 1848, and
to whose memory a monument was erected in 1878, by a few of his
Celtic admirers on a projecting rock overlooking his grave in the
"Sliochd Alastair Chaim burying ground, within the ancient Chapel
in the Gairloch Churchyard. Alastair Og had also several daughters,
married and unmarried, of whom three are still alive.
We shall now revert to Alastair Cam's eldest son, by Janet Mackenzie
of Ord -
I. RODERICK MACKENZIE, who married Isabella, daughter of William
Mackenzie of Sand, with issue, among others, -
II. HECTOR MACKENZIE, Melvaig, who married Mary, daughter of
William Mackenzie, of the same place, with issue, along with a
younger son Murdoch, -
III. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, also in Melvaig, who married Mary,
daughter of Hugh Morrison, Sand, with issue -
IV. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, designated, Highland fashion, as
"Alastair Mac Alastair, Mhic Eachainn, 'ic Alastair, 'ic Ruairidh,
Mhic Alastair Chaim Mac an Tighearna." He married his third
cousin, Annabella, eldest daughter of John Mor Mackenzie, "Ian
Mor Aireach," great grandson of "Alastair Cam Mac an Tighearna,"
with issue, an only son -
V. HECTOR MACKENZIE, born in April, 1810. His father died
before Hector was a year old, and the widow soon after married,
as her second husband, Alexander, son of Alexander Grant, "Bard
mor an t-Slagain," with issue - three sons, Roderick, John, Duncan,
and Margaret, who subsequently emigrated with their father and
mother to Cape Breton, where they settled, married, and have large
families, and another daughter, Janet, who married and remained
in Gairloch. His father left Hector what was considered a
substantial sum of money for those day's, in the hands of Murdo
Mackenzie, tacksman of Melvaig, one of the original Sand family,
and a near relative of Gairloch, but he never received a penny of
it. He was thus left a penniless orphan and was obliged to fight
his way in the world as best he could as an honest, industrious,
and respected crofter and fisherman. He married on the 17th of
February, 1838, Catherine, daughter of Roderick, eldest son of
Alexander Campbell, "Alastair Buidhe Mac Iomhair," the well-known
Gairloch Gaelic Bard, by his wife Catherine, daughter of Roderick,
son of William Mackenzie of Shieldaig, a cadet of the Gairloch
family. By his wife Catherine Campbell (who died at Inverness on
the 20th of January, 1882, and was buried at Gairloch), or more
correctly MacIver (the family having only discarded the older
and better name and adopted the new within living memory), Hector
Mackenzie, who is still alive in his 84th year, had issue -
1. Alexander, of Park House, Inverness, who was born on Christmas
Day, 1838. He was for seventeen years an active member of the
Town Council and a Police Commissioner of Inverness four years
Dean of Guild and a Magistrate of the Burgh, as well as a
Commissioner of Supply and Justice of Peace for the County. He
was also a member of the first Inverness County Council, and took
a prominent part in its proceedings. In 1875 he founded the
"Celtic Magazine," which he owned and conducted for thirteen years
until it was incorporated with the "Scottish Highlander" newspaper
in 1888. In 1885 he started the "Scottish Highlander," which he has
managed and edited since, and which now, though still nominally
carried on as a Limited Liability Company, is practically his own
property. He is the author of several Clan histories - that of
the Mackenzies, the first edition of which appeared in 1879; of
the Macdonalds, in 1881; of the Mathesons, in 1882; of the Camerons,
in 1884; of the Macleods, in 1889; and of the Chisholms, in 1891.
He is also the author of The History of the Highland Clearances,"
which created quite a sensation when it appeared; of the "Social
State of the Isle of Skye;" the "Prophecies of the Brahan Seer;" and
of several other minor works. He married, on the 3rd of August,
1865, Emma Sarah Rose (author of Tales of the Heather) only surviving
daughter of Thomas Whittaker Rose, Henrietta Park Villas, Bath
(still living in his eighty-sixth year), by his first wife Sarah
Cole, with issue - Hector Rose Mackenzie, solicitor, Inverness,
who was born in Ipswich, on the 25th of February, 1867, and married
on the 19th of July, 1892, Barbara Sutherland, elder surviving
daughter of John Anderson, late of the 71st Regiment of Foot
(The Highland Light Infantry); Thomas William, born in Inverness
on the 4th of August, 1875; Alastair Ian, born on the 30th of
December, 1880; Kenneth John, born on the 17th of October, 1885;
Catharine Anne, born on the 24th of February, 1868, died on the
1st of August in the same year, and buried in Ipswich Cemetery;
Annie Emma; Catharine, who died in infancy in 1873; Mary Rose;
and Emma Barabel.
2. Roderick, born on the 13th of July, 1844, a member of the
firm of William Cumming & Co., wholesale woollen warehousemen,
Huddersfield, but residing in London. He married, first, on the
18th of January, 1871, Julia Catherine, eldest daughter of Thomas
Lewis shipowner, Sunderland, with issue - William Frank, who was
born on the 6th of October, 1874; Hector Dundas, born on the 22nd
of July, 1876; Catherine Louisa, who died in her thirteenth year,
on the 11th of July, 1884, while on a holiday visit, at Inverness;
Ellen Maria; and Mary Josephine. His first wife having died on
the 14th of June, 1881, Roderick married, secondly, on the 18th
of December, 1889, Mary Lang, daughter of John Sandford, Cambuslang.
3. William, clothier, Inverness, born on the 12th of November,
1846, and married on the 16th of July, 1873, Annabella Bertrude,
daughter of Alexander Grant, tacks-man of Easter Gallovie,
Strathspey, with issue - Alexander Roderick, C.E., born on the
17th of May, 1874; Hector Donald Grant, born on the 20th of June,
1875; William John Macintyre, born on the 18th of January, 1877;
James Grant, born on the 20th of June, 1878, died on the 23rd of
September, 1889; Arthur Henderson, born on the 9th of February,
1880; Allan Campbell, born on the 19th of April, 1881; Eneas
Kenneth, born on the 9th of March, 1883; Andrew Duncan, born on
the 7th of January, 1885, died on the 2nd of May, 1888; Harry
Macpherson, born on the 28th of October, 1887; Douglas Mitchell,
born on the 19th of February, 1890; and Ella May, born on the
21st of June, 1886, and died on the 24th, three days after.
4. Another Alexander, who served for twelve years in the 2nd
Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) in which he was Troop Sergeant-Major,
and subsequently went abroad.
5. Catherine, who married John Fraser, shipowner, Inverness,
without issue.
6. Mary, who married Alexander Fraser, and resides in Cheltenham,
with issue - Hector Alexander John, born on the 4th of May, 1883;
Catherine Campbell; and Lily Mary.
7. Annabella, who married George Mackenzie, draper, Ipswich,
afterwards at Nairn and Inverness with issue - William Hector, born
on the 9th of January, 1877 Alastair, born on the 5th of March,
1878; George John, born on the 14th of April, 1884; Marion;
and Catherine Campbell, who died in infancy. Annabella died at
Edinburgh on the 9th of May, 1888, and is buried there.
This is the lease, with its miscellaneous rent, curious and
antiquated conditions, referred to at page 479 -
I, Sir Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch, Baronet, heritable proprietor
of the lands and others under-written with the pertinents, do
hereby set and in tack and assedation for the full space of twenty
years, lets to John Mackenzie, tacksman of the equal half of the
quarter lands of Erradale-a-phris, or North Erradale, all and
whole the said possession as presently occupied by him, with all
the shielings, mosses, moors, biggings and universal pertinents
thereof, all lying within the parish of Gairloch and Sheriffdom
of Ross. To him and his lawful heirs whatsoever, to he occupied
and "brooked" by them during the foresaid space of twenty
years, without any hindrance or breach of tack whatever; and it
is hereby provided, nothwithstanding the date hereof, that this
tack commences directly at the term of Whitsunday in the year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five years, and
to continue thereafter, aye and until the number of twenty years
complete be expired, and I, the above-named Sir Alexander, do
hereby bind and oblige me, my heirs, and successors, to make this
tack good, valid, and sufficient to the effect foresaid at all
hands and against all deadly, as law will, - For the which cause,
and on the other part, the said John Mackenzie by his acceptance
hereof binds himself, his heirs, and successors, to pay to me,
the above Sir Alexander, and my successors, or our factors having
proper powers thereanent, as a yearly rent furth of the said equal
half of the quarter lands of Erradale foresaid all and whole the
sum of one hundred and thirty-one marks and a half Scots money two
marks three shillings and fourpence money foresaid, crown rent;
ten marks ten shillings and eight pence in lieu of peats, or as
the same shall reasonably be from time to time regulated by the
proprietor a mark of cruive money, twenty marks money foresaid
of stipend, or as the same shall happen to be settled 'twixt the
landlord and minister; two long carriages, two custom wedders,
a fed kid, a stone of cheese, and half a stone weight of butter;
eight hens, or as usual eight men yearly at their own expense to
shear corn or cut hay a davoch of ploughing, and four horses for
mucking. The above John also obliges himself and his foresaids
to attend road duty yearly four days, with all his servants and
sub-tenants, or pay a yearly capitation optional to the landlord
during this lease under breach of tack, and to sell all the cod
and ling that shall be caught by him and his foresaids at the
current prices to our order and to dispose of all his marketable
cattle to our drover at reasonable rates, also under breach of
tack and further the above John and his successors are, by their
acceptance hereof, become bound to pay to me, the above Sir
Alexander Mackenzie and my foresaids, in the way of a grassum at
the term of Whitsunday, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five
years foresaid, all and whole the sum of two hundred and fifty
marks Scots money, and the like sum at the end of every five
years of this tack, making in all the sum of one thousand marks
Scots money; and both parties become hereby bound to fulfil the
premises to one another "hinc inde" under the failure or penalty of
ten pounds sterling to be paid by the party failing to the party
performing, or willing to perform, his or their part and for the
more security I consent that these presents be registered for
conservation in the Books of Council and Session, that letters
of horning and all needful executions may pass hereon in form
as effeirs and thereto constitute our procurators. In testimony
of which these presents, consisting of this and the former two
pages of stamped paper are written and duly signed by me, Sir
Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch, at Flowerdale, this fifth day
of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and sixty years.
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE.
THE MACKENZIES OF BELMADUTHY.
I. WILLIAM MACKENZIE, first of Belmaduthy, was the eldest son of
Alexander Mackenzie, V. of Gairloch, by his second wife, Isabel,
eldest daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, natural son of Colin Cam,
XI. of Kintail, and progenitor of the families of Applecross and
Coul. He married Mary, daughter of James Cuthbert of Alterlies
and Easter Drakies, Inverness (sasine of the lands to them in
1657) with issue -
1. Alexander, his heir and successor.
2. Isabel, who married John Munro of Fayres.
3. Catherine, who, as his second wife, married Alexander Mackenzie,
IV. of Loggie and Inchcoulter, without issue.
4. Janet, who in 1679, as his second wife, married her cousin,
Alexander Mackenzie, VII. of Gairloch, with issue.
5. Jean, who married Hugh Baillie of Kinmylies, Sheriff-Clerk of
Ross.
6. Mary, who married Murdoch Mackenzie of Sand.
William and his wife died in the same week at Belmaduthy, in 1658,
and were buried at Chanonry, when he was succeeded by his only son,
II. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, second of Belmaduthy, who married
Catherine, eldest daughter by the second marriage of Sir Kenneth
Mackenzie, Baronet, I. of Coul (sasine 1693), with issue -
1. William, his heir and successor.
2. Kenneth, who became first of Pitlundie.
3. George, who got Culbo (sasine to him in 1721), and married
Mary, daughter of Alexander Forrester of Cullenauld, with
issue--Isabel, who married Fraser of Achnagairn; Anne, who married
Dr John Mackenzie and Catherine, who, in 1713, married, as his
first wife, John Mackenzie, III. of Gruinard, with issue - his
heir and successor. George, who died in 1765, having left no male
issue, his nephew, William Mackenzie, II. of Pitlundie, succeeded
to Culbo.
4. Anna, who married Alexander Mackenzie, M.D., eldest son of
Bernard Mackenzie of Sandylands, on record in 1707.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
III. WILLIAM MACKENZIE, third of Belmaduthy, who married first,
Margaret, daughter of Alexander Rose of Clava (sasine to her in
1717), with issue -
1. John, his heir and successor.
2. George, M.D. in the Queen's Dragoons, who died unmarried.
3. Hugh, a merchant in Fortrose, who died unmarried.
4. Alexander, who commanded a ship in the Guinea trade, and died
unmarried.
5. Catharine, who married William Tolmie, merchant, Fortrose.
6. Elizabeth, who married John Matheson of Bennetsfield.
7. Jean, who married Simon Mackenzie, first of Scotsburn, with
issue.
8. Isabel, who married Lieutenant William Mackenzie, of the 77th
Regiment (Montgomery's Highlanders.) He was killed at Fort du
Quesne in 1759.
William married, secondly, Elizabeth (who died in 1772), daughter
of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, first Baronet and IV. of Scatwell, with
issue -
9. Kenneth, M.D., who practised at Reading.
10. Roderick, first of Flowerburn, of whom presently.
11. Lilias, who married Roderick Macleod, II. of Cadboll, with
issue - his heir and successor.
12. A daughter, who married Fraser of Culduthel.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
IV. JOHN MACKENZIE, fourth of Belmaduthy, who married Rebecca,
daughter of John Mackenzie, I. of Delvine, with issue -
1. William, his heir and successor.
2. John, who died young.
3. Kenneth, a merchant at Patna, who married a Miss Mackenzie,
in the East Indies.
4. Margaret, who died unmarried.
5. Rebecca, who married John Aird, merchant, London.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
V. WILLIAM MACKENZIE, fifth of Belmaduthy, Advocate. He married
Maria, daughter of John Lancaster, of Cambridge, with issue -
1. John, his heir and successor.
2. William, who married Miss Hay, Huntingdon, without issue.
3. George, who married Miss Lynch, without issue.
4. Cecilia; 5. Maria; 6. Rebecca, all unmarried.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
VI. JOHN MACKENZIE, sixth of Belmaduthy, who married Margaret
Hay, Huntingdon, with issue -
1. John Kenneth; 2. Anna Maria; and 3. Catherine. The present
representation of the family is unknown.
THE MACKENZIES OF PITLUNDIE AND CULBO.
I. KENNETH MACKENZIE, first of Pitlundie, was the second son of
Alexander Mackenzie, II. of Belmaduthy, by his wife, Catherine,
daughter of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, Baronet, I. of Coul. He married
Anne, daughter of Hector Mackenzie of Bishop-Kinkell, second son
of Alexander Mackenzie, VI. of Gairloch, by his wife, Ann, daughter
of Sir John Grant of Grant by Ann Ogilvy, daughter of the Earl of
Findlater, with issue -
1. William, his heir and successor.
2. Margaret, who, on the 9th of September, 1728, as his second
wife, married John Matheson, first of Attadale, ancestor of Sir
Kenneth James Matheson, Baronet of Lochalsh and Ardross.
Kenneth was succeeded by his eldest son,
II. WILLIAM MACKENZIE, second of Pitlundie and first of Culbo,
succeeding to the latter as heir-male of his uncle George. He
married a daughter of George Mackenzie of Inchcoulter, with
issue -
1. George, his heir and successor.
2. William, of whom there is no trace.
3. A daughter, who married Alexander Mackenzie of Cleanwaters.
4. Anne, who married Roderick Mackenzie of Achvannie, with issue.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
III. GEORGE MACKENZIE, third of Pitlundie and second of Culbo,
Sheriff-Substitute of Ross. He married Anne, daughter of Alexander
Mackenzie, VIII. of Davochmaluag, with issue -
1. William, his heir and successor.
2. Alexander, who died unmarried.
3. Captain Kenneth, of the H.E.I.C.S., who was killed at Java, in
1811, unmarried.
4. Major Duncan Henry of the Madras Horse Artillery, who married
Mary, daughter of Lachlan Mackinnon of Corry, Isle of Skye, with
issue - George William Mackinnon, who died unmarried, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Lachlan Mackinnon of the Madras Army, who died
unmarried. Major Duncan died in 1834.
5. George of Drynie, a solicitor in Dingwall. He married Catherine,
daughter of John Macrae, Sheriff of Dingwall, with issue - John, a
surgeon in the Madras Army, who died unmarried in 1872; the Rev.
George William, English Chaplain at Frankfort, who married Fanny
Taylor; Charles, who died unmarried; Duncan Anne, who married Thomas
Ballantine, with issue - a daughter; Elizabeth Proby, who married
the Rev. W. Hutchins, Vicar of Louth, Lincolnshire, with issue;
Isabella, who married the Rev. William Baden Powell, Vicar of
Newick, Sussex; and Margaret, unmarried. The last-named three
daughters are now dead and their father, George of Drynie, died
in 1865.
6. John, a solicitor in Tam. He married Christian, daughter of
Captain Kenneth Mackenzie, of Kerrisdale, third son of Sir Alexander
Mackenzie, third Baronet and N. of Gairloch, with issue - George,
who died young; and Kenneth, who died unmarried. John died in
1852.
7. Mary Proby, who married James Macdonell, W.S., without issue.
8. Elizabeth, who married Thomas Simpson, son of the minister of
Avoch, with issue - two sons and two daughters, all dead.
9. Anne, who died unmarried.
George died in 1802 (his wife dying in 1832), and was succeeded
by his eldest son,
IV. WILLIAM MACKENZIE, M.D., of the H.E.I.C.S., fourth of
Pitlundie and third of Culbo. He married Margaret (who died in
1841), daughter of Thomas Allan, with issue -
1. George Kenneth, who died young.
2. William Ord, M.D., Deputy-Inspector-General of Army Hospitals,
who became his father's heir.
3. Thomas Allan, Major 3d Light Cavalry, Bombay, who married
Clara, daughter of J. Birdwood, judge, Bombay Civil Service, with
issue - William, who died unmarried; and Allan Stanley, who died
young. He died in 1856.
4. Duncan Proby, who married Cecilia Margaret, daughter of William
Dudgeon, Edinburgh, with issue - three sons and four daughters. He
died in 1884.