History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the nameMackenzie, Alexander
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History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name
Mackenzie, Alexander
Mackenzie family; Scotland -- Genealogy; Seaforth, Earls of
3. Colin, who married Isobel, daughter of Donald Simpson, Chamberlain
of Ferintosh, with issue - (1) Alexander, locally called "Sanders,"
who succeeded his grandfather, Donald Simpson, as Chamberlain of
Ferintosh. He married Helen, daughter of William Munro, Ardullie,
with issue - two sons and two daughters - (a) Colin, who died unmarried,
but left a natural son, of whom are descended several respectable
families in Ferintosh; (b) Donald, who married Jean, legitimate
male succession of his paternal grandfather, Alexander, eldest son
of Colin, third son of Murdoch Mackenzie, V. of Hilton. Donald
had several daughters; first Mary, who was along with her father
and brother when they were drowned, but she was saved, and married,
as his second wife, the Rev. Colin Mackenzie, minister of Fodderty,
first of the family of Glack, of whom presently second, Jean, who
married Colin Murchison third, Isabel, who married David Ross;
fourth, a daughter, who married Mackenzie of Ussie, with issue - two
sons, Donald and Frank; fifth, Anne, who married Lewis Grant;
and sixth, Helen, who married Alexander Mackenzie of Ardnagrask,
afterwards at Loggie-side, from whom was descended Bailie John
Mackenzie, of Inverness. Alexander's ("Sanders") eldest daughter,
Mary, in 1723, married Donald, son of John Murchison, Achtertyre;
the second, Elizabeth, married William Martin of Inchfure, with
issue - a daughter, Ann, celebrated for her beauty, who, as his second
wife, married Norman Macleod, XIX. of Macleod, with issue - three
daughters, Elizabeth, Anne, and Rich Mary, for whose marriage and
descendants see Mackenzie's "History of the Macleods," pp. 154-155.
(2) Roderick, Colin's second son, whose male heir carried on the
representation of the family on the death, without legitimate male
issue, of Alexander Mackenzie, X. of Hilton, when he was succeeded
by Roderick's grandson, Alexander, as XI. of Hilton, whose descent
will be shown presently. John, a third son of Colin, is on record
in 1730, but nothing more is known of him.
4. Murdoch, fourth son of Murdoch, V. of Hilton, married Agnes
Helen, daughter of Donald Taylor, a Bailie of Inverness (1665),
with issue - an only son, Alexander, who in early life entered the
service of Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth, and who, in 1709, became
Chamberlain of the Lewis for Earl William. In the same year
Alexander married Katherine, daughter of Andrew Duncan, factor
for Viscount Stormont, with issue, whose descendants are unknown.
Murdoch had also a daughter, Jean, who daughter of Thomas Forbes
of Raddery and of the lands of Fortrose as far as Ethie, with
issue - an only son, Alexander, who was drowned along with his
father, while fording the Conon, Opposite Dingwall, in 1759, when,
the son being unmarried, perished the married Hector Mackenzie, by
whom she had a son, Kenneth, a Jesuit Priest in Spain, and several
daughters.
5. Isobel, who married the Rev. Donald Macrae, minister of Kintail,
with issue.
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