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Mackenzie, Alexander, 1833-1898

"History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name"


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.


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