Writing about their immediate progenitor Mr Dixon says - "In 1649
the Rev. Roderick Mackenzie, third son of Roderick Mackenzie of
Knockbackster, was admitted minister of Gairloch and continued so
until his death in March 1710, after an incumbency of sixty-one
years. He seems to have been a man of quiet easy-going temperament.
When he came to Gairloch, Presbyterianism ruled; when Episcopacy
was established in 1660, he conformed; and when the Revolution put
an end to Episcopacy, he became a Presbyterian again." But that
he never was a very enthusiastic one is clear from the Presbytery
records during his incumbency, for they show that he seldom
attended its meetings, though often specially cited by his brethren
to do so. His brother Kenneth, who appears to have continued
an Episcopalian all his life, was of a very different stamp. He
seems to have spent a considerable portion of his early life in the
Island of Bute, to which apparently he became very much attached,
for when he left it and went to reside with his brother at Kernsary,
probably as purchaser and proprietor of the estate, he took a smack
load of Bute soil along with him in order that he might be buried
in it when he died.
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