daughter of Matthew Robertson of Davochcarty, with issue - Colin,
who married Florence, daughter of Simon Mackenzie, I. of Torridon,
with issue - a son, Alexander, who married a daughter of William
Mackenzie, II. of Pitlundie, by whom he had one son, who died
young.
5. John, who in 1683, married Isobel Mackenzie, with issue - two
sons, the second of whom, Charles, married and had a son Alexander,
who succeeded to his cousin Alexander's estate and became IV. of
Cleanwaters. He married, with issue - at least one son - Alexander,
V. of Cleanwaters, who was also tacksman of Muirend from 1770 to
1778. His father, who died before 1759, was tenant of Drumnamarg,
in the Black Isle.
Colin was succeeded in 1682 by his eldest son,
III. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, third of Kilcoy, who married (marriage
contract 21st of March, 1664) Mary, daughter of Kenneth Mackenzie,
VI. of Gairloch, with issue -
1. Roderick, his heir and successor.
2. Alexander.
3. Lilias.
In 1658 he bought the lands of Allan (now Allangrange) from
Seaforth's trustees, and in 1682 sold it to his uncle, Sir Roderick
Mackenzie of Findon, whose daughter Isobel carried it to Simon
Mackenzie, progenitor of Allangrange.
Alexander died in 1687, and was succeeded by
IV. RODERICK MACKENZIE, fourth of Kilcoy, who married (contract,
7th January, 1689) Annabella, daughter of Sir Donald Bayne of
Tulloch, with issue -
1. Donald, his heir and successor.
2. John, who died young.
3. Lilias, who married Donald Dingwall, Provost of Dingwall.
Roderick died in December 1700, and was succeeded by his eldest
son,
V. DONALD MACKENZIE, fifth of Kilcoy, who in 1716, married Elizabeth,
daughter of John Mackenzie, II. of Highfield, with issue -
1. Roderick, who died young.
2. Colin, who succeeded to Kilcoy.
3. James, who died young.
4. William, who married Jean, daughter of Alexander Mackenzie,
VIII. of Davochmaluag, without issue.
5. Alexander, who died in Holland without issue.
6. Kenneth, Tutor of Kilcoy, who married Janet, daughter and
heiress of Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, author of
the Peerage and Baronage, with issue - (1) General Sir Kenneth
Mackenzie, who succeeded to his mother's estate of Glenbervie,
and assumed the name of Douglas in addition to his own. (See
Mackenzie-Douglas of Glenbervie.) (2) Donald Mackenzie, who was
born in 1772, and married, in 1809, Anne, daughter of T. Mylne
of Mylnfield, with issue - (a) Colonel Kenneth Douglas Mackenzie,
who was born on the 1st of February, 1811, and married on the 26th
of June, 1861, Mary, second daughter of General Thomas Colomb,
Colonel 97th Regiment. Colonel Kenneth died on the 24th of August,
1873. (b) Anne, who married Donald Maclachlan, 79th Highlanders,
with issue - Donald George Campbell, who died in the Crimea,
unmarried; Kenneth Francis, Captain Royal Artillery. He was born
on the 1st of December, 1845, and on the 9th of January, 1877,
married Amy Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late John William
Fletcher, of the Bengal Army and of Shifnal, Salop, with
issue - Kenneth Douglas, born on the 25th of March, 1882, and
Gladys Elma; and Ann Campbell. (3) Alexander Douglas Mackenzie
of Burleston, Hants. He married in 1799 Sophia, only daughter
of General Ross Lang, County Roscommon, with issue, one son and
five daughters - (a) Charles Douglas, who was born on the 6th of
July, 1817, and on the 1st of June, 1854, married Jessie, daughter
of Isaac Barker, Cumberland, with issue - Kenneth Ross, Lieutenant
78th Highlanders Charles Douglas, R.N.; Jessie Harriet Isabella;
and Helen Harriet; (b) Anne Douglas, unmarried; (c) Amelia
Georgina, who in October, 1845, married William Prue Jordan, of
London, M.D., with issue, one daughter - Annie Mary Josephine,
married, with issue; (d) Frances Donald, who in 1822 married
Joseph Bristow, without issue; (e) Jessie Barbara, who in 1845
married the Rev. Charles Cook, Canon of Exeter Cathedral, and
Chaplain to the Queen; and (f) Rachel Catherine Andrews, who in
1842 married the Rev. Robert Montgomery, M.A. of Oxford, with
issue - Jessie Anne Douglas Montgomery. (4) Janet Mackenzie, who
married the Rev. Dr Snodgrass, and died on the 30th of July,
1852, aged 90 years, in New South Wales; (5) Margaret Mackenzie,
who as his second wife married William Chalmers of Glenericht,
with issue - General Sir William Chalmers; (6) a daughter, who
married a Mr Wilson; and (7) Barbara Mackenzie, who married Mr
Keith.
7. Elizabeth, who married Thomas Mackenzie, IV. of Highfield and
VI. of Applecross, with issue.
Donald was succeeded by his eldest surviving son,
VI. COLIN MACKENZIE, sixth of Kilcoy, who was infeft in the
lands of Kilcoy on the 16th of December, 1742. In 1747 (marriage
contract 28th March) he married Martha, eldest daughter of Charles
Fraser of Inverallochy, by Anne, daughter of Udney of Udney.
Her eldest brother, Charles, on whom the Lovat Estates were
entailed, fell in command of the Clan Fraser at Culloden, and her
second brother, William, who had also succeeded to the property
of Udney, dying in 1792, the representation of the family of
Inverallochy and Castle Fraser devolved upon Martha and her sister
Eliza Fraser (who died without issue in 1814). Through this
marriage, the family of Kilcoy claim to be heirs to the old Earldom
of Buchan, conferred in 1469 upon James Stuart, half-brother of
James II., by the second marriage of his mother, Queen Jane, to
Sir James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn. In 1617 a Crown
charter of Novodamus is granted to the then Countess Mary of Buchan,
who married James Erskine (eldest son of John Earl of Mar) with
the precedence of the former charter to herself and her husband
in life rent and the heirs male of their marriage, whom failing
to his nearest heirs male whatsoever. In 1625 the Earl and Countess
had another charter of the Earldom with the same limitation. In
1633 the charter of 1625, and a decree of 1628 giving the Earldom
of Buchan precedence over those of Eglintoun, Montrose, Cassilis,
Caithness, and Glencairn, were ratified by Act of Parliament.
These charters make the Kilcoy claim quite hopeless, not because
they are not the rightful heirs, but because the Earldom was given
in 1617 by charter to the heirs male of James Erskine, though he
had no more right to it than he had to the throne itself, beyond
having married the Countess Mary of Buchan, now represented by
the Mackenzies of Kilcoy. Nothing can annul a charter but another
Crown charter, and as a matter of fact and justice, the Cardross
Erskines have no more right to represent and sit as the Earls of
Buchan of 1469 than they have to be Kings of Great Britain. By
this lady Kilcoy had issue -
1. Donald, who died young.
2. Charles, his heir and successor.
3. Colin, Lieutenant 71st Regiment, killed in the American War,
without issue.
4. Alexander, who on succeeding to his mother's property of
Inverallochy, assumed the additional name of Fraser by Royal
license dated the 22nd of July, 1803, and became the well-known
Lieutenant-General Alexander Mackenzie-Fraser of Inverallochy
and Castle Fraser, Colonel of the 78th Regiment, and M.P. for the
county of Cromarty, 1802-6, Ross-shire, 1806-1807, and 1807 until
his death at Walcheren, on the 13th of September, 1809. He
married Helen, sister of Francis Humberston-Mackenzie, last Lord
Seaforth, with issue, two sons - (1) Charles Mackenzie-Fraser, II.
of Castle Fraser, his heir, Captain Coldstream Guards, Colonel
Ross-shire Militia. He served in the Peninsular War with the
52nd Regiment in 1808-9, and was M.P. for Ross-shire 1814-1818.
He was born on the 9th of June, 1792, and died on the 7th of March,
1871, having married on the 25th of April, 1817, Jane, daughter
of Sir John Hay, Baronet of Smithfield and Haystoune, with
issue - (a) Alexander, who died in 1843; (b) John Wingfield, who
died in 1846; (c) Charles Murray, who died in 1846; (d) Francis
Mackenzie, who died in 1849; and (e) Kenneth, who died young in
1836 - all without issue. (f) Frederick Mackenzie-Fraser, now of
Castle Fraser, Aberdeen-shire, late of the Ross-shire Militia,
Lieutenant-Colonel H.M. Reserve Forces. He was born on the 4th
of April, 1831, and married first, on the 24th of April, 1871,
Lady Marie Augusta Gabrielle Berengere Blanche Drummond, elder
daughter of George, fourteenth Earl of Perth and Melfort. She died
in 1874 without issue. He married, secondly, in 1879, Theodora
Lovett, daughter of William Henry Darby of Leap Castle, King's
County, Ireland. (g) Catherine, who died unmarried in 1856; (h)
Mary, who died unmarried in 1847; (i) Eleanor Jane, who died on
the 22nd of October, 1858, having on the 6th of January, 1855,
married, as his second wife, the Right Reverend George Tomlinson,
D.D., first Bishop of Gibraltar, who died on the 6th of February,
1863, and had a son and two daughters - George Charles James
Tomlinson, born on the 16th of April, 1857; Eleanor Fraser; and
Mary Elizabeth; (j) Grace Harriet, who died without issue; and (k)
Augusta Charlotte, who on the 25th of April, 1854, married Robert
Drummond, with issue - Charles and Sybil. (2) Lieutenant-Colonel
Frederick Alexander Mackenzie-Fraser who died in December, 1848,
married first, Emma Sophia, daughter of Hume Macleod of Harris,
with issue (a) Frederick Charles, who died in 1875, leaving issue;
(b) Colin; and (c) Isabella, who died unmarried. He married,
secondly, Georgina Augusta, daughter of Sir Charles Bagot,
Governor-General of Canada. Lieutenant-General Alexander had
also two daughters - (3) Marrianne; and (4) Helen, both of whom
died unmarried.
5. Anne, who married Alexander Mackenzie, W.S., I. of Portmore,
with issue.
6. Elizabeth, who died young.
7. Jean, who in 1766 married Alexander Elphinstone of Glack,
Aberdeenshire, Sheriff-Depute of that county in 1777, with issue -
a son, John, and two daughters - Jane, who in 1787 married John
Mackenzie, VII. of Applecross, and Mary, who died in Edinburgh
unmarried in 1796.
8. Janet, who died unmarried in 1789.
9. Martha; and 10. Janet, both of whom died young.
Colin of Kilcoy died in 1758, and was succeeded by his eldest
surviving son,
VII. CHARLES MACKENZIE, seventh of Kilcoy, who in 1781 married
Jane Gordon, third daughter of Patrick Grant of Glenmoriston with
issue - an only son, by whom on his death in 1813 he was succeeded as
VIII. SIR COLIN MACKENZIE, eighth of Kilcoy, created a baronet
on the 15th of March, 1836, with remainder to his second and third
sons, Evan and Colin John. He was Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant
1st Ross-shire Local Militia, and Vice-Lieutenant and Convener
of the county, and claimed the Earldom of Buchan and Barony of
Auchterhouse. He was born on the 22nd of April, 1782, and married
on the 30th of March, 1805, Isabella (who died on the 26th of May,
1874), second daughter of Ewen Cameron of Glen Nevis, with issue -
1. Charles, his heir and successor, in the entailed estates. He
was born on the 25th of December, 1811, and died unmarried on the
30th of July, 1887.
2. Evan, who succeeded to the Baronetcy and the unentailed estates.
3. Colin, died unmarried on the 21st of April, 1868.
4. Jane, who in 1853 married James Wardlaw, Major 2nd Royal
Lancashire Militia (who died on the 3rd of October, 1867), with
issue - (1) John Colin Wardlaw Captain 34th Regiment. He was born
on the 19th of July, 1856, and married in 1889, Mabel, daughter
of William Bousfield Page, of Carlisle. (2) George Lake, born
on the 19th of April, 1864; (3) James Robert Preston, born on the
22nd of September, 1867; (4) Geraldine Anne Isabella Mary Jane, who
married on the 21st of December, 1876, George Francis Gillanders
of Highfield, with issue - a daughter, Frances Geraldine; (5)
Horatia Georgina Ramsay, who married first on the 19th of July,
1877, William Gordon Cumming Asher, with issue - William Augustus,
born on the 6th of July, 1878, and Isabella Cameron. She married
secondly, Thomas Home, W.S., Edinburgh, with issue; (6) Jane Frances
Harriet, who in 1890 married George Mullen of Springfield, County
Sligo, with issue - a daughter, Jane Horatia Mary.
Sir Colin died in January, 1845, when he was succeeded in the Baronetcy
and unentailed estates by
IX. SIR EVAN MACKENZIE, second Baronet of Kilcoy. He was born
on the 15th of August, 1816, and married on the 2nd of November,
1844, Sarah Ann Philomena, daughter of James Parkes, County of
Londonderry, with issue -
1. Colin Charles, Lieutenant 79th Cameron Highlanders, born on
the 7th of February, 1848, and died unmarried at Gibraltar on the
15th of June, 1880.
2. Isabella Jane, who became her father's heir and successor.
3. Edith Millicent.
4. Eva Mary Marjorie Erskine, who on the 22nd of February,
1872, married Roderick Grogan Mackenzie, V. of Flowerburn,
Lieutenant-Colonel Ross-shire Militia, late 16th Lancers, with
issue.
5. Sarah Anna Philomena.
Sir Evan Mackenzie died in 1883, and on the death of his brother,
Charles Mackenzie of Kilcoy, in 1887, the estates and representation
of the family of Kilcoy devolved on Sir Evan's eldest daughter,
X. ISABELLA JANE, who on the 30th of March, 1869, married Colonel
John Edward Burton (now Burton-Mackenzie), late 91st Highlanders,
second son of the late John Standfast Burton, by Mary Anna, daughter
of David Morgan and niece and heiress of Richard Toulmin North of
Newton Hall and Thurland Castle, Lancashire, with issue -
1. Evan North, who was born on the 9th of March, 1870.
2. Colin John Mackenzie, born on the 14th of September, 1871.
3. Edward Grove, born on the 7th of August, 1876.
4. Isabella Alicia Eva.
On succeeding to the estates of Kilcoy, Colonel and Mrs Burton
assumed the name and arms of Mackenzie of Kilcoy, in addition to
those of Burton (recorded in 1633), by Letters Patent from the
Lyon King at Arms on the 7th of December, 1887.
MACKENZIE-DOUGLAS OF GLENBERVIE.
I. GENERAL SIR KENNETH MACKENZIE-DOUGLAS, first of this
family, was the eldest son of Kenneth Mackenzie, Tutor to Charles
Mackenzie, VII. of Kilcoy, by his wife Janet, daughter of Sir
Robert Douglas, Baronet, of Glenbervie (author of the Peerage and
Baronage of Scotland), and co-heir of her brother, Sir Alexander
Douglas, M.D., the last Baronet of that family, descended from
Archibald, fifth Earl of Angus, whose second son, Sir Robert
Douglas, succeeded in 1591 to his estates of Glenbervie and Kemnay.
The General, who was Colonel of the 58th Regiment, was created a
Baronet on the 30th of September, 1831, and on the 31st of October
following he assumed by Royal license the name of Douglas in
addition to his own. He married on the 18th of December, 1804,
Rachel, only child and heir of Robert Andrews of Hythe, Kent, with
issue -
1. Robert Andrews, his heir and successor.
2. Kenneth, Lieutenant 58th Regiment, who was born on the 14th
of July, 1809, and died unmarried in Ceylon in 1830.
3. Alexander Douglas, an officer in the 58th and 68th Regiments.
He was born on the 22nd of December 1811, and on the 17th of
April, 1834, married Ann, daughter and co-heir of Joshua Rouse,
Southampton, with issue - (1) Rouse Douglas, Captain 96th Regiment,
born on the 29th of December, 1836, and married on the 20th of
December, 1861, Alice, daughter of John O'Neill of Montbello,
County Wicklow, with issue - a son and daughter; (2) Alexander
Douglas, of the Mounted Police, Queensland. He was born on the
7th of February, 1843, and married in 1864, without issue; (3)
Annie Douglas, who on the 31st of March, 1864, married John Croft,
F.R.S.; (4) Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie-Douglas; and (5) Rachel
Adela Douglas. Alexander died in 1848.
4. Edward, who died unmarried in 1835.
5. Lynedoch, Lieutenant 97th Regiment. He was born on the 28th
of October, 1818, and on the 26th of July, 1848, married Laura
Susanna, youngest daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald
Campbell, Baronet, G.C.B., with issue - (1) Helen Maria Mackenzie,
who on the 22nd of December, 1874, married Andrew Mitchell Mackenzie,
son of the late Hon. Donald Mackenzie, Senator of the College of
Justice, with issue - Donald Mackenzie, born on the 15th of July,
1878; Lilias Douglas; and Helen Maria Douglas; (2) Laura Augusta
Mackenzie Douglas, who on the 13th of July, 1878, married Donald
Mackenzie, B.A., W.S., eldest son of the Hon. Donald Mackenzie
aforesaid; (3) Jessie Beatrice Mackenzie Douglas, who on the
25th of October, 1873, married as his first wife the Rev. Philip
Richard Pipon Braithwaite, vicar of St. Luke's, Jersey, since
1881, and formerly of Abbotsham, Devon, with issue - William Douglas
Braithwaite, born on the 22nd of October, 1876; Jessie Pipon; and
Mary Mackenzie. Lynedoch Douglas died on the 15th of May, 1859.
6. Donald Douglas, Captain Royal North Down Rifles. He was born
on the 7th of July, 1821, and on the 5th of August, 1847, married
Emily Jane, fifth daughter of Hugh Kennedy of Cultra, County
Down, with issue - (1) Donald Sholto Mackenzie, born on the 14th
of December, 1849; (2) Kenneth Nigel Mackenzie, Lieutenant Essex
Rifles. He was born on the 1st of November, 1851, and on the
31st of July, 1879, married Emma daughter of Thomas B. Street, of
Friers Place, near Acton, Middlesex; (3) Emily Elizabeth Mackenzie,
who on the 28th of November, 1877, married Colonel Robert Blair
Kennedy, with issue - Kathleen Carlotta Douglas.
7. Rachel, who on the 23rd of February, 1843, married her cousin,
John Snodgrass, Major 96th Regiment, with issue - (1) John Douglas,
Captain R.A., born on the 21st of April, 1844, and married, with
issue - a son who died young; (2) Rachel Etah; and (3) Edith Mary
Mackenzie. Rachel died on the 15th of January, 1877, her husband,
Captain Snodgrass, having predeceased her on the 27th of January,
1856.
General Sir Kenneth Mackenzie-Douglas died on the 22nd of November,
1833, when he was succeeded by his eldest son,
II. SIR ROBERT ANDREWS MACKENZIE-DOUGLAS, second Baronet
and Major in the army. He was born on the 25th of April, 1807,
and on the 29th of April, 1835, married his sister-in-law, Martha
Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Rouse, of Southampton, with issue -
1. Robert Andrews, his heir and successor.
2. Kenneth Douglas, who was born on the 17th of October, 1842, and
on the 21st of August, 1867, married at Christchurch, New Zealand,
Caroline Nicholls, with issue - (1) Kenneth, who succeeded as fourth
Baronet; (2) Blanche; and (3) Martha. Kenneth Douglas died on the
25th of January, 1882.
3. Elizabeth, who on the 6th of August, 1861, married Sir Francis
George Augustus Fuller-Eliott-Drake, Baronet, Captain Royal Horse
Guards, with issue - Elizabeth, who in 1887 married Reginald John
Upton Colborne, third Lord Seaton.
Sir Robert died on the 1st of November, 1843, when he was succeeded
by his eldest son,
III. SIR ROBERT ANDREWS MACKENZIE-DOUGLAS, third Baronet,
Captain 57th Regiment. He was born on the 19th of July, 1837.
He died unmarried in 1884, when he was succeeded in the title and
estates by his nephew,
IV. SIR KENNETH MACKENZIE-DOUGLAS, fourth Baronet, who was
born on the 29th of May, 1868.
THE MACKENZIES OF APPLECROSS.
THE immediate progenitor of this family was Alexander Mackenzie
of Coul, so often referred to in the body of this work, and who
so greatly distinguished himself in the wars with Glengarry and
Macleod of the Lewis. He was a natural son of Colin Cam, XI. of
Kintail, by Mary, eldest daughter of Roderick Mackenzie, II. of
Davochmaluag, by his wife, Ann, daughter of Donald Gorm Macdonald.
VII. of Sleat. Alexander was a great favourite with his brothers
Kenneth, first Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, and Sir Roderick Mackenzie
of Coigeach. He has a sasine of half the lands of Applecross and
others, as a "natural son of Colin Mackenzie of Kintail," dated 10th
of March, 1582. He has another, in 1607, from Roderick Dingwall
of the lands of Kildun, and one in 1619 of the lands of Pittonachty,
now Rosehaugh, and Castleton. It is said that Alexander when quite
an infant was sent by his mother to his father, Colin of Kintail,
to Brahan Castle, who consulted his wife, Barbara, daughter of John
Grant of Grant, as to what he should do with the little stranger.
Naturally incensed both at her husband's infidelity and the proposed
addition to her family circle, she indignantly replied - "Cuir 'sa
chuil e," that is "put him in the ash-hole, or corner." Realising
the imprudence of further offending her, but being naturally of a
humane disposition, and wishing to act honourably by his innocent
offspring, he took the child away, and on his return told his wife
that he had carried out her proposal and left him in the "Coul."
He secretly sent Alexander to the place then and now called "A
Chuil," or Coul, to be nursed and brought up by a respectable
woman, and thus carried out the letter if not the spirit of his
lady's request, and at the same time performed his duty towards
his afterwards distinguished son, to whom he gave that estate as
his inheritance.
Kenneth's grandson, John, II. of Applecross, who in 1669, wrote
the well-known Genealogy of his clan, gives the following account
of the progenitor of his family: "He was happy in his youth by
the comeliness of his person, and agility of body, to be looked
upon by Kenneth, Lord Kintail, his brother, and all his followers,
being then engaged in their hottest feuds with the Clan Ranald and
Macleods of Lewis, as the fittest man to command what force his
brother was to make use of on these occasions, wherein he failed
not their expectations, managing that command (which he enjoyed
until the Tutor of Kintail put a period to all these troubles
by the transaction with Glengarry, and utter extirpation of the
Macleods of Lewis) with so much courage and expedition, that albeit
during the whole tract of these broils there passed not any action
of moment wherein he was not signally concerned, yet in all of
them his constant success brought no less honour to himself than
advantage and reputation to his party. This, with his singular
industry and upright dealing in affairs, got him so much of the
love of his brethren, especially Lord Kenneth, who on his death-bed
honoured him with the gift of his own sword in testimony of
his esteem and affection for him, and so much of the respect of
his friends and neighbours, and the good opinion of the country
people, that, without difficulty or the least grudge of any person
whatsoever, he in a short time purchased a considerable estate,
which he still augmented by the same means during the rest of
his life." Among these purchases was Applecross and other lands
which exceeded in extent the lands of Coul, which was bestowed on
him by his father.
Alexander married, first, Annabella, daughter of Murdoch Mackenzie,
I. of Fairburn, and relict of Thomas Mackenzie, I. of Ord, with
issue -
1. Roderick, infeft by his father in the estate and Parony of
Applecross.
2. Isabel, who as his second wife married Alexander, V. of Gairloch,
with issue.
3. Marjory, who married the Rev. William MacCulloch of Park,
minister of Fodderty.
Alexander married secondly, Christian, daughter of Hector Munro
of Assynt, with issue -
4. Kenneth, first of Assynt and afterwards of Coul.
5. Alexander, who died unmarried in 1639.
6. Hector of Assynt, who married a daughter of Hugh Fraser of
Belladrum, with issue. Sasine to him in 1650.
7. A daughter, who as his second wife married John Chisholm, XVI.
of Chisholm, with issue - his heir and successor.