John Mackenzie, 1st of Delvine

Biographical Summary

"I. John Mackenzie, first of this family, was third son of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, first Baronet of Coul, by his first wife, Jean Chisholm of Chisholm. He married first, his cousin Isabella, daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, I. of Lentran, with issue — one son, George, who married, and died before his father, without issue in 1772. He married, secondly, a daughter of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonston, with issue — William, who married, and died in England before his father, without issue. He married, thirdly, Margaret, daughter of Hay of Alderston, with issue —

• Alexander, who on the death of his half-brother George, became his father's heir.
• Kenneth (who died in 1756), Professor of Law in the University of Edinburgh. He married Grizel Hume, daughter of Browne, I. of Dolphinton, with issue — two sons and two daughters. The second son, Andrew, was a W.S., and married a daughter of Campbell of Achlyne, with issue. The daughters died unmarried. The eldest son, John, succeeded his father-in-law, and became John Mackenzie, II. of Dolphinton. He in 1773 married Alice, daughter of Robert Ord, Lord Chief-Justice of the Exchequer, with issue — five sons, four of whom — Robert, Kenneth, John, and George, died unmarried. The second son, Andrew, had a son (with three daughters — Mary, Grace, and Anne) Kenneth, a Major in the 4th Regiment, who married a Miss Solomon in America, with issue — four sons and three daughters. The only surviving son of John succeeded him as Richard Mackenzie, III. OF Dolphinton, who died in 1850. He married Jane, daughter of Captain Hamilton, 73rd Regiment, with issue — John Ord Mackenzie, IV. of Dolphinton, W.S., who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, with issue. Richard had also three other sons, Kenneth, Richard James, and George.
• Thomas, who died young.
• John, Chief Clerk of Session, who married Miss Renton of Lamerton, without issue.
• Donald, a Surgeon in the Army, who died unmarried in 1741.
• Anne, who married Alexander Robertson of Faskally, with issue, and died in 1772.
• Helen, who married Crawford Balfour of Bingry.
• Rebecca, who married John Mackenzie, IV. of Belmaduthy, with issue ; and five other daughters, Janet, Catharine, Mary, Christina, and Jane, all of whom died unmarried,

John Mackenzie, I. of Delvine, died in 1731, when he was succeeded by his second and eldest surviving son."

SOURCE: History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name; Alexander Mackenzie; 1894; page 613