Maj. Kenneth Mackenzie, of Suddie

- 1688

• Name	Kenneth Mackenzie  [1]
  Prefix	Maj.
  Suffix	of Suddie
  Gender	Male
  Name	Alexander Mackenzie  [2]
  Name	Kenneth Mackenzie  [3]
  Died	Aug 1688	Lochaber, Moidart, Inverness-Shire, Scotland   [3]
  	Cause: killed at the battle of Mulroy.
  Person ID	I24211	Clan current
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	Alexander Mackenzie, 1st of Suddie,   d. Aft 1672
  Family ID	F28938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabella Paterson,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Kenneth Mackenzie, 3rd of Suddie,   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Margaret Mackenzie,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Elizabeth Mackenzie,   d. Yes, date unknown + 4. Alice Mackenzie,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F14452	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  1 - Captain Kenneth Mackenzie, second of Suddie. He served in Dumbarton's Regiment in France in 1666, and as a Royalist Captain in Scotland. He married Isobel, daughter of John Paterson, Bishop of Ross, with issue. - 1. Kenneth, his heir and successor. 2. George, killed with Lord Mungo Murray at Darien. 3. Margaret, who married William Macleod of Bernera. 4. Elizabeth, married as his first wife, Colonel Alexander Mackenzie of Conansbay, son of Kenneth Mor, third Earl of Seaforth, without issue. 5. Alice, who married, first, in 1698, as his second wife, John Macdonald of Balcony, son of Sir James Macdonald, IX. of Sleat ; and secondly, John Maclean, M.D., Inverness. He was killed at the battle of Mulroy in Lochaber in 1688, Scott gives the following account of Captain Mackenzie's death :— He was brave, and well-armed with carabine, pistols, and a halbert or half-pike. This officer came in front of a cadet of Keppoch, called Macdonald of Tullich, and by a shot aimed at him, killed one of his brothers, and then rushed on with his pike. Notwithstanding his deep provocation, Tullich, sensible of the pretext which the death of a Captain under Government would give against his clan, called out more than once, ' Avoid me, avoid me.' ' The Macdonald was never born that I would shun,' replied Mackenzie, pressing on with his pike ; on which Tullich hurled at his head a pistol, which he had before discharged. The blow took effect, the skull was fractured, and Mackenzie died shortly after, as his soldiers were carrying him to Inverness." He was succeeded by his eldest son, Kenneth. 2 - The Battle of Maol Ruadh (Mulroy or Maoile Ruaidh) was fought in August 1688 in the Lochaber district of Scotland between the Chattan Confederation led by the Clan Mackintosh against the Clan MacDonald of Keppoch and the Clan Cameron. It is sometimes described as the last of the private battles between clans of the kind fought in the Highlands in ages past, but this is perhaps inaccurate as the Mackintoshes had official support for their actions against the Macdonalds and their army was in part made up of government troops. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Maol_Ruadh] [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S155] FASTI ECCLESIAE SCOTICANAE-All Volumes, LDS Church, (http://histfam.familysearch.org/index.php also database at http://ecclegen.com/), Vol.7 p.356 (Reliability: 3). [S67] Macdonald genealogy, Roddy Macdonald of the Clan Donald Society of Edinburgh, (http://www.clandonald.org.uk/genealogy.htm), genealogy/d0003/g0000058.html (Reliability: 3). [S276] History of the Mackenzies, Alexander MacKenzie, (historyofmackenz00mack.pdf).