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<<General Evening Post (London, England), Thursday, December 11, 1788; Issue 8594.
Saturday last, the 6th inst., died at the Clyde Iron-works in Scotland, John Mackenzie,Esq of Strathgarve>>
Is anyone following the Mackenzie family of Strathgarve? Above is a snippet from a 1788 newspaper which shows the death of a John Mackenzie, Esq of Strathgarve who founded the Clyde Ironworks company in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire in 1782 - prior to that he overseered the building of the Wilson Ironworks in Lanarkshire.
I think he must have taken some of his Ross-shire clan with him and I'm trying to find a link to my Mackenzie family of Donald Mackenzie, clerk of Clyde Ironworks died 1827 (and his wife Janet Cameron d1822).
If the above Donald wasn't family, maybe that Don's son-in-law was. He was another Donald Mackenzie, master blacksmith of Clyde Ironworks (born 1776 in Ross-shire d1855 in Lanarks). This latter Don's parents were ALEXANDER MACKENZIE and JEAN MACKENZIE and I'm trying to discover siblings/parents of Alexr. & Jean. I know their children were born in Balloan cottages on the Fairburn estate in Ross & Cromarty. unfortunately the vicar didn't bother putting father's occupations which would give clues to reasons for living in any particular place. And we all know wives weren't necessarily born & bred in the place their husband's worked.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke