SOME MACKENZIE PEDIGREES BY DUNCAN WARRAND, O.B.E., M.A., F.S.A. INVERNESS: ROBERT CARRUTHERS & SONS 1965 Other works by the same author :- More Culloden Papers, 1626 to 1747 (5 Vols.). Some Fraser Pedigrees. PREFACE THE MAcKENzIEs are to-day without a chief. Since the death, in 1907, of James Fowler Mackenzie of Allangrange, the last chief, no claimant appears to have come forward, with the exception (and that posthumously) of the late Colonel Alexander Francis Mackenzie of Ord. Gallant officer, perfect gentleman, he .might well have been chosen by the Clan to represent them. Some, even in these changed and ever-changing times, still cling to right of birth, and would have the heir male of the last Chief proved to be such without dispute ; others would make their choice from among the few lairds who still hold their ancient heritage; while others again would include the eldest son of an heir female, or even the heir female herself, being in possession of the family estates and bearing the name and arms of her paternal ancestors. All these considerations are. for the Clan rather than for the genealogist. · To find to-day the true representative of the Mackenzies who, the attainder removed, would be Earl of Seaforth and Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, may be a matter of very great difficulty, perhaps a hopeless quest. Nevertheless. something of the kind has been attempted, by taking the pedigrees back step by step, in order of seniority, and noting in its proper place the existence of any family, whose genealogy has not been traced. If the whole question has been made plainer and something added to what is already known, the writer's task will not have been in vain. D. W. Although Major Warrand, who died in February 1946, and who was the fourth son of Colonel A. J. C. Warrand of Bught, Inverness, and Ryefield, Conon Bridge, and a great grandson of Major H. R. Duff of Muirtown. Inverness, the editor of the original volume of "Culloden Papers," which appeared in 1815, wrote the above in 1937, it is as true and applicable to-day as it was 28 years ago. That, therefore, is why, after all these years, the book is at last being published. The delay is regretted, but it was unavoidable, the author himself. the second world war, the author's death, and subsequent difficulties all being partly responsible. R. C. & SONS. CONTENTS ----...•--:.:-• ... ---- ... Preface • • • • • • • • • f •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 111 . List of Abbreviations .. .. .. .. vii . Kintail and Seaforth .......................................... 1 Assynt ............................................................ 28 The later Mackenzies of Seaforth ........................ 31 Kildun ............................................................ 36 Colin Mackenzie, Governor of Ellandonan 38 l(inchulladrum ................................................ 40 Pluscardine ...................................................... 42 Eamside ......................................................... 47 Allangrange ............................ •· ..................... 49 lnchcoulter ...................................................... 57 Dundonnell ...................................................... 60 Kinnock and Pitlundie ............................... ~ ...... 65 Redcastle ......................................................... 68 Kincraig ......................................................... 80 Ord ............................................................... 85 Davochmaluag ................................................ 97 Kilchrist and Suddie • I I I I I e e I e I I I I I I I I I I I • a I I e I e I I I I I e I I I I I e e I 106 Inverael I • I I I I • I I • I • I I I I I I I I I • I I • I I I I I I • I I I I • I I I I I I I ·1 I I I I I I I I I I I I 115 Hilton ....................... " ................................... 118 Brae • I I I I • • I I I I I I I I I I e I I I I I • I I e I I I e • I • • e I I • I e • e ♦ • e I I I I I I • I • I • I I e I I I 125 Achilty ......................................................... 130 Ardross ......................................................... 136 Fairburn I • I • I I• • I I I I e e e I e • I' e • I • f I I I I I • I I f I I t e I •• II CO •• I • f • I • • I • e I I 142 Tolly ............................................................ 153 Appendix !.-Mackenzie Lairds and Window Taxes ... 157 Appendix II.-Mackenzie Freeholders (1793) ......... 162 Index I I I • I e e e t I I f • I • • • I e I I I • e • • • I t I I e a t • I • e ♦ I I e e •• 4 t I I e e e e I e • • • •• 165 Addenda and Corrigenda .................................... 195 ABBREVIATIONS IN NOTES --◄6-':•.. ►-- A. L. C ............................ Acts of the Lords of Council A. P. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Acts of Parliament Com. Commissariat Ed. Edinburgh E.R. Exchequer Rolls F.E.P ..................................... Forfeited Estates Papers G.S.R ........................................... Great Seal Register Inv. Inverness Mackenzie ... "History and Genealogies of the Mackenzies," 2nd Edition Macfarlane ...... "Macfarlane's Genealogical Collections" (Scottish Historical Society) Macgill . W. Macgill, " Old Ross-shire and Scotland as seen in Tain and Balnagown Documents " N.S.C. ......................................... New Spalding Club P. ....................................................... , . Protocol P .C.R. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Privy Council Register P .R.H. ..... Particular Register of Homings and Inhibitions P .R.S. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Particular Register of Sasines P.S.R ........................................... Privy Seal Register R. Retours R.D. Register of Deeds S.C. .................................................. Spalding Club S.C.B. ......................................... Sheriff Court Books Sec. R. Secretary's Register S.H.S. Scottish Historical Society S. of H ........................................... Services of Heirs S.R.S. Scottish Record Society Test. Testaments KINTAIL AND PRINCIPAL BRANCHES Alexander Mackenzie d. ? 1472 I 1 2 3 I I Kenneth kackenzie Duncan Mackenzie Hector Mackenzie of Kintail, d. 1492 I t V Hilton and Brae Gairloch. etc. 2 3 I I I I I 4 1:..___,! ___________________-;------------------~ I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I John !Mackenzie Alexander Ma~kenzie Rory Jackenzie Mr Kenneth Mackenzie I of Kintail, d. 1561 ~ I I I Davochmaluag V v Achilty Kilchrist and Suddie Ardross Inverlael Fairburn Tolly 1 2 I . Kenneth IMac k enz1e. J olm Mackenzie of of Kintail, d. 1568 Kinlochluichart ❖ Ord 1 2 3 I I I Mlll'doch Mackenzie Colin Mackenzie Rory Mackenzie d.1569 of Kintan, d, 1594 I ~ V 1 . Redcastle Kincraig 1 2 3 4 5 6 I I I • • • • • • • • • • • • I . I I 0 Kenneth er. Lord Rory Mackenzie John Mackenzie Colin Mackenzie Ahixandcr Mackenzie, Muruoch Mackenzie d. Alexander Mackenzie Mackenzie of young ~ . of Melbost Kintail (Scotland) J J I ~ 1609 : d. 1611. Cromartie, etc. Kinnock aml Kilcoy, etc. John Mackenzie Coul, etc. Pitlundie u. s.p. 1 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 I I I I I I I Colin, 2nd Lord John Mackenzie Kenneth Mackenzie Alexamlcr Mackenzie George, 2nd Earl Thomas Mackenzie Simon Mackenzie Mackenzie of of Lochslin, d. s.p.m. u. s.p.m. of Seaforth, of Lochslin Kintail, er. Earl d.s.p.m. d. 1651 J of Seafort,h Pluscardine ~ (Scotland), 1623, Earnside Rosebaugh d. s.p.m., 1633. Allangrange Inchcoulter Dundonnell 1 2 3 4 5 6 . I I I I I I Kenneth, 3rd Earl George Mackenzie Colin Mackenzie Robert Mackenzie Arthur Mackenzie, Rory Mackenzie John Mackenzie of Seafo~h, d. 1678 I Governor of Ellandonan. d. s.p. d. s.p. V I V Kildun Kinchulladrum Gruinard 2 3 4 I I I . I Kenneth, 4th Earl of John Mackenzie Hugh l\fackenz10 Col. Alexander Mackenzie Seaforth (er. Lord of Assynt, d. s.p. d. 1727 Fortrose and Marques!:! d. 1705 of Seaforth by James VII. after his abdication) d. 1701. I --1 WilliaJ, 5th Earl of Kenneth IMackenzie . :\lajor William Mackenzie Seaforth, title of Assynt, d, 1770 attainted 1716, d. 17 40 living 1752 I. ____ 1 2 1 2 3 I I I Kenneth Mackenzie, Ranald Mackenzie, Nicholas Mackenzie \Yilliam Mackenzie, Lt. Col. Thomas Freuerick :Francis Humberston Mackenzie, styled Lord Fortrose, d. s.p. d. s.p. Prior of Wurzburg, Mackenzie Humberston, purchased but for the attainder, 9th Earl of but for the attainder, but for the from his cousin the Seaforth Seaforth, er. Lord Seaforth and Lord 6th Earl of Seaforth, attainder, 8th Estates d. s.p.1., 1783. Mackenzie of Kin tail ( Great d. 1761 Earl of Seaforth. Britain) 1797, d. 1815, when the d. s.p. 1785 new titles became extinct. ______I I Kenneth Mackenzie, but for the attainder, 4 sons d.v. p. and s.p. Mary l!,rederiea lTilizabcth, 7th Earl of Seaforth and 8th Lord Mackenzie eldest daughter and heir of Kintail (Scotland), er. Lord Ardelve and to the estn,tes, but not to Viscount lfortrose (Ireland), 1766, and Earl the titles. · of Seaforth (Ireland), 1771, d. s.p. m. 1781, when the new titles l~ecame extinct. ~ SOME MACKENZIE PEDIGREES I. KINTAIL AND SEAFORTH IT is not too much to say that the histories of the Clan Mackenzie, histories co1npiled for the most part in the dangerous seventeenth century, are wholly unreliable, at all events prior to 1475. The late Sheriff Macphail, whose knowledge of and sympathy with the Highlands· have been a:mply recognised, was clearly of this opinion. "In particular," he wrote, "it may be pointed out that there is nothing to justify the alleged Geraldine origin of the Mac­ kenzies, and also that there is no record evidence for the existence of any of .their alleged chiefs prior to Kenneth-a-bhlair, who rose to a position of some importance towards the end of the fifteenth century on the fall of John, Lord of the Isles and Earl of Ross." (1475).1 The absence of record evidence in these early times may not in itself be conclusive proof of a fabulous genealogy, but it is at leas.t highly suspicious, the more so that the early charters, once cited in histories, not only do not now exist, but, if they did, are almost certainly spurious.
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