Bef 1768 - Yes, date unknown
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Name |
Simon Mackenzie |
Prefix |
Captain |
Birth |
Bef 1768 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
Yes, date unknown |
Person ID |
I84256 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
4 Jan 2020 |
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Notes |
- Captain Simon Mackenzie, married before 1768 (likely 1767, the year the contract is dated) to Isobel Mackenzie, daughter of George Mackenzie, second of Allangrange, and Margaret Bayne who was herself heiress of the Bayne of Tulloch family. Simon was a Captain of the Fourth Regiment, till he retired as a half pay officer and took up farming at Langwell, he seems to have become the major Mackenzie farmer at Langwell during his father's lifetime, and it is not yet clear if he predeceased his father, regardless, position as head of the Langwell Mackenzie family looks to have passed to his brother Thomas.
Simon died 1775-6 while his two children were young, they did not follow at Langwell, likely their widowed mother settled elsewhere. Though noted by many genealogists as first of the Mackenzie Ross of Aldie family, Malcolm Bangor-Jones study of property dealings show Simon remained at Langwell, his son George though was tenant of Aldie in 1819 at death of the Hugh Ross of Gladfield and Aldie, and from that date looks to have had the double surname "Mackenzie Ross", a court case in the 1850s notes George had been "heir of entail" of Aldie.
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