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Topic: 1901 census look up please - Inverness (Read 400 times)
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Fransmoi
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Trying to find the birthplace of WILLIAM MACKENZIE clothier who built the house named "Erradale" at 2 Ladies Walk, Invenness about 1895. He had a shop in Bridge St caled " My Coat is All Wool" from it's wrought iron sign showing a lamb and these words.
At his marriage to Annabella Bertrude Grant at Duthil in 1873 he states he is 34 years old thus born about 1839. Thus in 1901 we'd expect him to be approx. 62
His parents were HECTOR MACKENZIE crofter & CATHERINE CAMPBELL but I can find no such couple anywhere although I suspected they'd be Gairloch Mackenzies from the Erradale crofting area.
William & Annabella had 11 children :-
ALEXANDER Roderick Mackenzie b 17 May 1874
HECTOR Donald Grant Mackenzie b 20 June1875
WILLIAM John Mackenzie b 18 Jan 1877
JAMES Grant Mackenzie b 20 June1878
He died at Inchberry Lodge,Lentran on 23 Sep 1889 aged 11 from "Larcoma of the chest wall ." which he endured 20 months.
ARTHUR Henderson Mackenzie b 9 Feb 1880
Arthur married Mary Harwood from Devon. A distinguished educator in India he was awarded the Star of India .He died in Inverness in 1936 of stomach cancer having left his retirement too late for it to be treated when he got back home .His usual residence given as
" Erradale" the family home where his brother Harry still lived.
ALLAN Campbell Mackenzie b19 April 1881 .
Allan married Norah Hunt,Gore's Landing,Ont.He died in Montreal Canada 24 June 1933.
ENEAS Kenneth Mackenzie b 9 Mar 1883
Known as "Dr E.K." he had his practice in Tain. He died 27 Mar 1941.at Croit Mhairi, Tain He married Helena Burnett a Fraserburgh nurse in Aberdeen 13 April 1911 and they had 2 offspring that I was told of :
Ashley or Ashleigh Mackenzie who married Stella and had family :-
Dr Valery Mackenzie & Captain 'Bunty' Mackenzie R.N.a London gaeneacologist )
ANDREW Duncan Mackenzie b 7 January 1885 .
Andrew died at home from croup on 2nd May 1888 aged 3 yrs 4 m
ELLA May Mackenzie who lived but 3 days from 21 June to 24 June 1886.
Very sadly their only daughter.
HARRY McPherson Mackenzie b 28 Oct 1887 He ran the shop with his father and was his principal heir.Harry was the last to write up the Family Register in the bible and the house was sold after he died there of heart failure on 22 Dec 1944 aged 57 & unwed.
DOUGLAS Mitchell Mackenzie b 19 Feb 1890
Mother ANNABELLA died at "Erradale" 21 Aug 1920 -Heart failure. Her parents were
Alexander Grant,farmer & Jane Allan
Father WILLIAM died at "Erradale" 11 Dec 1923 Heart failure. His parents were
Hector Mackenzie ,crofter and Catherine Campbell.
This family were said to be cousins of my grandmother and the present owners of the house "Erradale" very kindly presented to me the Mackenzie family bible found in their attic so I am now honour bound to prove the relationship !
Does anyone recognise any of the above named ? You may hold the one clue I seek.
Thanks for listening, Listers.
Fransmoi.
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Mackenzie ,MacLeod,McLeod,Milne,Montgomery,
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Shields,Sim,Sowden, Stoddart,
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MonicaLesl
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Hi Fransmoi
You may be in luck  There is only one birth entry (unnamed child) showing for parents Hector and Catherine Campbell on IGI and that is in 1855. Nothing is showing for them before the start of official registration in 1855:
MAC KENZIE Birth: 08 JUL 1855 Gairloch, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland
Parents: HECTOR MAC KENZIE and KATE CAMPBELL
1855 is the magic year for BMDs in Scotland. For one year only, the entries ran over two pages of the register and included a wealth of additional info. By 1856 the certs. had been cut down to one page (still brilliant in terms of info!). An 1855 birth cert will give a wealth of additional info on the parents: ages, when they married, where they were from, how many children they had (alive/ deceased) etc. Certainly one for you to view for background on the family.
The other thing that this birth cert. will confirm is that the parents lived past the start of official registration. Therefore, you should be able to find their death certs. on Scotlands People.
Regards.
Monica
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MacIsaac, MacDonald, MacPherson, MacVarish, MacMaster: Moidart - Inverness-shire. Gillies: pre-1850 Knoydart, Inverness-shire /post 1850s Fort William area - Argyll. Tully, Tulley, Moran, Murphy: Lanarkshire. Durnan, Durnin, Kelly, Tully, McPhillips: Co Monaghan. McIntyre, McMahon, Tully: Co Cavan (?) Ireland. Moran: Co Mayo (?) Ireland. ..........and lots of Spanish name interests........ Census information Crown Copyright, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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MonicaLesl
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Although William is showing a Gairloch birthplace in 1881, I wonder if this is him with family in 1851. The whole family are showing a birth place of Stornoway, Ross-shire:
Hector McKenzie 48, Crofter Fisher 3 Acr
Kathe McKenzie 38
Kathie McKenzie 9
Rodk McKenzie 6
William McKenzie 4
Alexr McKenzie 2
Mary McKenzie 1
Address: Strath, Gairloch
Although for William's marriage as you say he showed an birth year of c. 1839, his 1881 census entry shows an 1847 birth year:
Wm MacKenzie 34, Master Clother 2 Men & 1 Boy, b. Gairloch
Annabella B MacKenzie 35, b. Elgin
Alex R MacKenzie 6
Hector D MacKenzie 5
Wm J Mc I MacKenzie 4
James G MacKenzie 2
Arthur H MacKenzie 1
Betsey Campbell 28, servant
Maggie Rollo 17, servant
Address: Cabarfeidh Villa, Inverness
Similarly, in 1901:
William McKenzie 54, Dutfitter (spl?) (draper), b. Gairloch
Anabella McKenzie 55, b. Graktown (spl?), Morayshire
Hector D G McKenzie 25
Arthur H McKenzie 21
Allan C McKenzie 19
Harry M McKenzie 13
Douglas M McKenzie 11
Matilda Hamilton 76, servant
Address: Ladies Walk Erradale, Inverness
Regards.
Monica
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MacIsaac, MacDonald, MacPherson, MacVarish, MacMaster: Moidart - Inverness-shire. Gillies: pre-1850 Knoydart, Inverness-shire /post 1850s Fort William area - Argyll. Tully, Tulley, Moran, Murphy: Lanarkshire. Durnan, Durnin, Kelly, Tully, McPhillips: Co Monaghan. McIntyre, McMahon, Tully: Co Cavan (?) Ireland. Moran: Co Mayo (?) Ireland. ..........and lots of Spanish name interests........ Census information Crown Copyright, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Fransmoi
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Very many thanks, Monica ,
I think 1847 has the most votes for William Mackenzie's birth as his death certificate also agrees with his age on each census and that he assumed he was born in Gairloch parish - which covers a large area !
Perhaps he chose "Erradale" - same Parish - for his house name from boyhood holidays at his grandparent's croft - who knows .
At both his marriage and at his death his mother's name is spelled Catherine Campbell - which may have been a variable of course.
It looks as though this is one I may be a long time chipping away to find if ever !
Still to hunt for his parents' death certs though so on with the hunt.
Appreciate your searching.
Rootschat never fails !
Fransmoi.
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Leslie,Loudon,Lumsden,
Mackenzie ,MacLeod,McLeod,Milne,Montgomery,
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Shields,Sim,Sowden, Stoddart,
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Fransmoi
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I have found Hector and his 3rd son William of Erradale,Ladies' Walk,Inverness in that excellent tome " Hisory of the Mackenzies"by Alexander Mackenzie and it would seem it was Hector's son who wrote it !
Never thinking he had an illustrious ancestry I thought to gain some background and then discovered a family known as SLIOCHD ALASTAIR CHAIM ( Alexander the One Eyed )from Alexander 4th son of Alexander V of Gairloch who lost an eye in the battle of Worcester.
He married, in 1652, Janet, third daughter of John Mackenzie, I.
of Ord, [The marriage contract is dated "at Chanonrie, the 21st
of July and 26th of August, 1652.
The line runs down to Hector born April 1810 in Gairloch parish ,possibly North Erradale.
His father died when Hector was a year old .
A considerable amount of money was left for him with the tacksman but Hector saw none of it.
His father's widow re-married and left for Cape Breton .A daughter Janet also stayed in Gairloch.
"He was thus left a penniless orphan and was obliged to fight
his way in the world as best he could as an honest, industrious,
and respected crofter and fisherman.
He married on the 17th ofFebruary, 1838, Catherine, daughter of Roderick, eldest son of
Alexander Campbell, "Alastair Buidhe Mac Iomhair," the well-known
Gairloch Gaelic Bard, by his wife Catherine, daughter of Roderick,
son of William Mackenzie of Shieldaig, a cadet of the Gairloch"
Their children were :-
1. Alexander, of Park House, Inverness, who was born on Christmas
Day, 1838 the author of many clan histories . He married, on the 3rd of August,
1865, Emma Sarah Rose .
2. Roderick, born on the 13th of July, 1844, a member of the
firm of William Cumming & Co., wholesale woollen warehousemen,
Huddersfield, but residing in London.He married twice.Firstly Julia Catherine18th of January, 1871 and secondly Mary Lang on 18th of December, 1889
3. William, clothier, Inverness, born on the 12th of November,
1846, and married on the 16th of July, 1873, Annabella Bertrude,
daughter of Alexander Grant, tacks-man of Easter Gallovie,
Strathspey, with issue - Alexander Roderick, C.E., born on the
17th of May, 1874; Hector Donald Grant, born on the 20th of June,
1875; William John Macintyre, born on the 18th of January, 1877;
James Grant, born on the 20th of June, 1878, died on the 23rd of
September, 1889; Arthur Henderson, born on the 9th of February,
1880; Allan Campbell, born on the 19th of April, 1881; Eneas
Kenneth, born on the 9th of March, 1883; Andrew Duncan, born on
the 7th of January, 1885, died on the 2nd of May, 1888; Harry
Macpherson, born on the 28th of October, 1887; Douglas Mitchell,
born on the 19th of February, 1890; and Ella May, born on the
21st of June, 1886, and died on the 24th, three days after.
4. Another Alexander, who served for twelve years in the 2nd
Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) in which he was Troop Sergeant-Major,
and subsequently went abroad.
I have tried to summarise and be brief but am happy to share what is omitted .
Thanks to all who went digging with me !
Fransmoi.
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Leslie,Loudon,Lumsden,
Mackenzie ,MacLeod,McLeod,Milne,Montgomery,
Ramsay,Ross ,Rust
Shields,Sim,Sowden, Stoddart,
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MonicaLesl
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Fransmoi
Fantastic luck - you couldn't ask for better background on your line!
Regards.
Monica 
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