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Clan MacKenzie Society in the Americas Cabar Feidh The Canadian Chapter Magazine

June 2007 ISSN 1207-7232

In This Issue: a completely separate story of Highlanders abroad in From Kildun to the Crimea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 2 18th century Russia. Some Dingwall sources for Genealogy . . . . . . 3 - 4 One of the Mackenzie officers in the Jacobite army New Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 of 1715 was Colin Mackenzie 2nd of Kildun, a first Highland Games Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 5 cousin of Kenneth Og, 4th Earl of Seaforth. Kildun Obituary - Diane Louise Mackenzie . . . . . . . 5 - 6 was originally a small estate just outside Dingwall, but Mackenzie Tartan Shirts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 its lairds were given extensive lands by their cousins Clan Mackenzie Dinner and AGM . . . . . . . 6 & 19 on the isle of Lewis, and by the early 18th century Ships Passenger Lists website. . . . . . . . . . . . 8 - 10 Aignish, on the eastern outskirts of Stornoway, became Mackenzie Surname DNA Project . . . . . . . 10 - 16 their seat. In l746 Kilduns wife Anna, daughter of   Genghis Khans 16 million descendants . . . . . . 16 Alexander Mackenzie of Ardloch, entertained the Holyrood Tribute to Scots in Canada . . . . . 16 - 17 refugee Bonnie Prince Charlie at her home of Arinish, Report from Timmins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 to the south of Stornoway, while her husband is report-   Message from Pierre McKenzie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 ed to have been in London. By this time their children McKenzies in Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 were spread out across Europe. Two of the eldest sons Norman MacKenzie to Lead Massed had been educated to the Roman Catholic priesthood at Pipes & Drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 - 20 the Scots College of Douai in France, from whence one   of them (George) is said to have gone on to be a Captain in the army in Holland, while the other (Alexander) and/or a third brother (William) - are - reported to have been sent to St. Petersburg, under the cover name(s) Douglas Mackenzie, to pursue diplo- F ROM K ILDUN TO THE C RIMEA m m e a n c t y .     a T n h d e    f e a s c p t i   o t n h a at g   e t   hi o s n     c b o e l h o a u l r f f   u o l  f  f t a h m e  il F y r   e h n is c t h o   r g y o  c v a er m n e - BY G RAEME M. M ACKENZIE torn a Gazette W h S e e n v   as S t c o o p t o s l     t d r u o r o in p g s     t a h r e r   iv C e ri d  me in a   n  th W e a   r  v t i h ci e n y i   t c y a   m o e f t d o a   u t g h h e  te S r of o C w oli y n of Kildu f n r   o i m n   t C h a e n   a d d e a r s   s c   m e t n h a d a y t   a   s n F u t r   g e o g n f e   c s h a t upon an area called Mekenzievy Gory - i.e. s s o o u m r e c t e h s i   n d g  o  of c   o a  n t f a ir ll m  s   t t o h r a y, t     b a u   t   it C   h a e p v p a e l a ier Mackenzie Mackenzies Hills - and its even said that Lord Raglan at one point had his headquarters at Douglas, of Scottish origin, a supporte R r  u o s f s   i t a he    Stuarts, Mackenzies Farm. Who was this Russian a w n it d  h  a a n     s e ec x r il e e t     i m n i   s F si r o a n n   c a e s ,     a w n  a a s  g s e e n n t  t  o t f  o s   ecret di , pl c o h m ar a g c e y d , Mackenzie? Well there are two explanations; one true,  b f and the other a false, but interesting embellishment on  and bearer of instructions dictated y the Prince o

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Page 2 Conti. i The story gets better however.  into his head to volunteer for service in the Russian A younger son of Kildun called Thomas had gone to  army fighting in the Caucasus against the Persians. sea where he fell in with the grandson of an ex-Royal  Though his own account of this adventure, drawn up Navy Captain who, having been dismissed the British  soon after his return to England for the Foreign service for his Jacobite sympathies, had risen high in  Secretary George Canning (being a sort of job applica- the Naval Service of Russia (in going to that country  tion) merely mentioned the influential friends hed Thomas Gordon was simply following in the footsteps  made whilst besieging Erevan, an altogether more of another of his clan, Patrick Gordon, who in the mid-  colourful account was given in later life to his cousin 17 th century had befriended Czar Peter the Great and as  Henry Mackenzie, the Suffragan Bishop of a consequence rose to become General-in-Chief of the  Nottingham. This had young Colin fighting his way Russian Army). Admiral Thomas Gordon obtained  through the surrounding army of Persians to carry dis- commissions in the Russian service for both his grand-  patches back to the Czar, in return for which he was son, James Young, and for Toma Caileenavitch offered an estate of his choice in Russia. Though the (Thomas son of Colin) - who subsequently married his  story goes that Colin turned down any such thing for grand-daughter Ann Young on his way to becoming a  himself, hes said to have asked that an estate in the Rear Admiral himself. ii Sevastopol area be given to a friend of his whod just Rear Admiral Thomas Mackenzie had a son of the  travelled through the Crimea and fallen in love with it same name who rose to the same rank and became  - which in gratitude this un-named friend called after Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy in the  Colin: hence the Mackenzie name attached to lands in Crimea, where he was responsible for the establish-  the Crimea! ment of Sevastopol as the headquarters of the Black  Colin Alexander Mackenzies life is full of such Sea Fleet. The inventory taken after his death reveals  good stories, and none is better than the process of that Admiral Thomas Mackenzie became a very  checking them against the facts, and tracking down the wealthy man. He lived in the best house in the then  truth about this remarkable man - more of which will primitive port, with a cellar boasting 554 empty and  be revealed in a future edition of the Journal. The last 374 full bottles of wine (plus kegs of vodka and  point on this occasion however is that, though Colin brandy), and a wardrobe that included, alongside  Alexander Mackenzie was not, so far as we know, a thirty coats and uniforms, a kilt and full accompanying  member of the Kildun family, his father did also come highland apparel. It also mentions several farms that he  from Dingwall. owned - one of which was probably the Mackenzies Farm in which Lord Raglan found himself during the N OTES Crimean War; and Mekenzievy Gory are certainly i Mac Gille Challuim, Mackenzies of Kildun in The Stornoway named for this son of Kildun. iii Gazette , 8 June 1954, The second Admiral Thomas Mackenzie had no ii Rebecca Wills, The Jacobites and Russia (East Linton, 2000), legitimate children, but he did father a son on a visit 15, 180-1. back to the UK and he too joined the navy - though the i N ii av D y, m   it 1 r 6 y 6   0 F s e - d 1 o 9 s 1 o 0 v s ,    U in n   d S er c   ot T l h a e n   d S   a a lt n ir d e   : th S e c   ot S s l   a a v n s : d t C h u e l   tu R r u e s s s   ia in n   British service in this case - rising in due course to the Contact 1500-2000 , eds. Mark Cornwall & Murray Frame rank of Commander, and leaving descendants who are (Newtonville, MA, USA, 2001). only now uncovering the full story of their ancestors iv David Syrett & R. L. DiNardo, eds, The Commissioned Sea remarkable journey from Kildun to the Crimea. iv 1 O 9 f 9 fi 4 c ) e ,  rs V   o o l. f     1 t , h   e 2   91 R ; o   y C a l l a   n  Na M v a y c   k 1 e 6 nz 6 i 0 e -   1 S 8 o 1 c 5 i   et ( y N  g a e v n y  ea R lo ec gi o c r a d l s     co S r o r c e . - , The final twist to this story comes some twenty or spondence from Allan C. Mackenzie a descendant of Cmdr. so years after the death of Admiral Thomas, when Thomas H. Mackenzie RN.  , another Mackenzie came passing by the Crimea. He v E. C. Mackenzie in Notes and Queries, 10th Series, Vol. viii was called Colin Alexander Mackenzie, and he too was (Dec. 1907), 510-12. to embark on a career of diplomacy and espionage, which was later to start in Russia. On this occasion  Editors Comment: I would like to thank Graeme however Colin was engaged in the customary wealthy  Mackenzie, the Clan Mackenzie genealogist who is young mans grand tour of Europe, and had taken it  well known to those who attend the Clan Gatherings in