Martin: Googling Angus Adolphus McKenzie took me to this site. I have been doing research of the Duncan McKenzie from Cloverdale, British Columbia. Duncan had a sister, Lilly who married a John Brooks in Ontario. Their daughter was Kate Almira Brooks. Kate's granddaughter just sent me an except from it which lists her uncles.
"I, Kate Almira Brooks was born Oct.31,1869 at our farm on Grovenor's Road at Village of Princeton (Dr.Benham) Brant County, Ontario, Canada, mother Lily Stuart MacKenezie, born in Ballachulish, Argylshire, Scotland. Grandmother died when my mother was an infant. There were four brothers: Hugh, Willliam, Dougall and Duncan. Grandfather came to Canada with his family of five. He had charge of the Suspension Bridge at Niagara for a time. I think he went from there to Burlington near Hamilton. Some of the boys moved to Kincardine to go fishing. Uncle Dougall lived in Hamilton,; he was an engineer in a foundry there. He used to visit us often. Uncle Duncan went to BC when I was about ten years old, 1879. He named the place Clover Valley. I didn't know any of the others (uncles)."
With this information, plus the obituary of Duncan, I found the passenger list of the Perthsire for 1844. It confirms that the five siblings were William (with wife), Duncan, Dougal, John and Lily. The father's name was Hugh. As several descendants of those siblings were named John Hugh McKenzie, it seems likely that the John from the record and the Hugh from Kate's recording were the same person. I found an 1841 Scotland census that lists the same siblings in Balachelich parish, Duror, Argyll. The father's name was written as Ewe (the way the census taker heard it?) and the mother was Margaret. I didn't find a death record for her, but she must have died between 1841 and 1844, which fits with what Lily told her daughter Kate. Also, the 1851 Canada census that has the Isabella Anderson family (Duncan's wife) has a Hugh McKenzie, son Duncan and daughter Lilly living next door.
Kate's granddaughter wanted me to post this for other members of her family to see.
Hilarie