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Mackenzie, Alexander, 1833-1898

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

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She was a most beautiful and accomplished woman, could converse
in Russ, German, French, and Italian, and was an admirable musician
and artist. She died in 1883 and is buried in Dingwall, leaving
issue - (1) Alexander, like his father a banker in Inverness, who
was born on the 18th of March, 1820, and died, unmarried, on the
20th of March, 1860; (2) JOHN ROBERT MACKENZIE, a Major-General in
Her Majesty's Forces, late Colonel of the 2nd Battalion King's
Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was in command in 1873 of
a successful expeditionary force in Arabia. He was born on the
5th of June, 1822, and on the 28th of August, 1851, married
Amelia Robertson, daughter of James Wilson, banker, Inverness,
by his cousin, Isabella, daughter of Thomas Fraser of Newton,
with issue - (a) Amelia Isabella Margery, who died, aged 17, and
is buried at Inverness (b) John William Sutherland, who was born on
the 17th of July, 1855, and on the 19th of July, 1881, married
Matilda Henrietta, daughter of Colonel Brown-Constable of
Wallace-Craigie, Forfarshire, Lord Lieutenant of the County, by
Mary Christina, daughter of Colonel Francis Kenneth Mackenzie,
fourth son of Captain John Mackenzie, VI.


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