Thomas Mackenzie, 3rd of Inverlael, Min. of Killearnan

Biographical Summary

"Thomas Mackenzie of Inverlaul, son of John M. of Inverlaul, min. of this parish ; was a member of the Court of High Commission 21st Oct. 1634 ; adm. to Tarbat in 1633, deserted his charge and went to Ireland in 1635, but returned and adm. here in 1638 ; elected a member of the Glasgow Assembly that year, but charges were brought against him and his commission was rejected. He protested in behalf of the Presb. against the Assembly as constituted and adhered to the declinature by the bishops ; dep. 13th Dec. 1638 and ordered to be excommunicated, "unless he satisfied by repentance." He retired to Inverlaul ; died at Cadboll 7th April 1665, and was buried at Fearn. He marr. Agnes, daugh. of Hector Douglas of Mulderg, and had issue —

• John of Inverlaul
• Thomas, writer, Edinburgh
• a daugh. (marr. Hector Douglas, fifth of Mulderg)."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 11

Other References

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