Rev James Mackenzie, Min. of Nigg

Biographical Summary

"James Mackenzie, born about 1630, fourth son of John M. of Inverlaul, Archdeacon of Ross and min. of Killearnan ; adm. before 1653 ; died in April 1701. He marr. about 1670, Jean, daugh. of John Rose of Braidley, a cadet of Kilravock, and is said to have had twenty children — Kenneth in government service ; Thomas, writer ; Alexander in Captain Conyngham's regiment ; William, lieutenant in army ; George of Beechhill, chamberlain to the Earl of Cromartie ; James, army chaplain in Flanders ; Henry, lieutenant in Edinburgh Castle, and others.

Among his descendants were Hugh Miller, Cromarty, Henry Mackenzie, " The Man of Feeling," and Joshua Henry Mackenzie, senator of the College of Justice."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 65

Other References

• History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name; Alexander Mackenzie; 1894; page 523

Notes

• Henry Mackenzie, " The Man of Feeling,"
• Joshua Henry Mackenzie, senator of the College of Justice