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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Mackenzies of Lots of Scoraig
« on: Tuesday 19 July 11 20:51 BST (UK)  »
Doing some digging. The Margaret mckenzie I have became Margaret Robertson when she married the blacksmith from rickfield. She was my grans grandmother. Kenneth Mckenzie as referred to in steves website I had problems tracing his parents too although I believe they were Abby and Donald. The other reason I think that's his parents name is kenneths childrens names. We have a string naming pattern in our family that continues til now. I have just dug out census records and I have a John mc or Mackenzie in rireavaich 1841 census aged 20 fisherman. Also a John in another household same census aged 18 with parents Murdoch and janet.

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Mackenzies of Lots of Scoraig
« on: Tuesday 19 July 11 20:28 BST (UK)  »
Hi both. Once term starts again I'll dig out my stuff and see if we can find some common ground. You can be rest assured we are all related in some way at some point in history

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Mackenzies of Lots of Scoraig
« on: Tuesday 19 July 11 08:09 BST (UK)  »
My family always believed the name abigail was after the lady in the big house. However when I started my research I discovered it goes right back to the start of the records.

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Mackenzies of Lots of Scoraig
« on: Tuesday 19 July 11 08:05 BST (UK)  »
No these weren't his parents. However very interesting. My mckenzies married into a family of blacksmiths from near rockfield close to Portmahomack. I have long thought there must be some connection. Very intriguing as I would expect the couple perhaps met when they visited relatives ?? My uncle and aunt are going to scoraig in august so if you want anything checked out in the cemetery let us know. Have you Bern up there ?? No surprise my great grandmother looks like you guys they had a limited pool of genes cut off on the peninsula

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Mackenzies of Lots of Scoraig
« on: Monday 11 July 11 19:56 BST (UK)  »
Hi here is the site that has our family letter. Interestingly my mother recently told me it was mc but in thus letter written by my gran it's mac. Anyway enjoy the little insight http://www.scoraig.com/People.html

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Mackenzies of Lots of Scoraig
« on: Monday 11 July 11 19:51 BST (UK)  »
Hi my family are mckenzies of rireveach. If you look on the website for scoraig run by steve Webster you will find our family story in there and how we ended up in Inverness. Have you tried searching under the alternative spelling Mckenzie as certainly we believe that was our surname and I'm sure the Margaret you mention moved with Kenneth and son Donald to petty near Inverness - all of this is on our family letter on steves website. The best place to look for records is the census. Also check out Gaelic versions of the name you are looking for mis spelt in English. Hope this helps

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Inverness / Re: Petty Parish Church
« on: Wednesday 29 June 11 20:02 BST (UK)  »
Hi I was on the Internet and joined thus rootsweb as I saw the entries on petty. I was at ardesier the other day but didn't find what I was looking for as I didn't know there was another grave yard at old petty. My ancestors came to petty during the late 19th century. They came fro
 Ryrevaich little loch broom. I'm looking for Kenneth Mckenzie or his son donald and descendants. Quite a large family came to petty to become shepherds. Anything you have would be gratefully received

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