David Brown McKenzie

[hume]

Looking for David Brown McKenzie (also known as David McKenzie Brown) after 1861. I have his birth on the 29th of June 1846. His father was David McKenzie, gardener, and mother Jean Guthrie. They were unmarried so Jean's children (she had another, Margaret, in 1840) went under her aunt's married name of Brown. Don't ask me why, I'm stumped with that one.

I first have David in 1851, aged 4, living with his aunt, uncle, mother and sister in Spott, East Lothian and then again in 1861 living in Dunbar aged 14 living with his aunt. After that, I'm clueless to his whereabouts. There's no deaths for a David Brown/McKenzie that match and I can't find him on the 1871 census.

hume24

[MonicaL]

Hi Hume

Looks like he became an army man. From the 1881 Census, a likely entry (with a Spott birth place:

1881   MACKENZIE   David B.   M   36   Institution: 'The Barracks (Queens)'   Perth East Church, Perth, Scotland

Regards.

Monica 

[hume]

Monica, you are a saint. I'm positive I searched for this but I think the Mac/Mc debate has sent me off-course again. Thank you again. It gives me a lead to hopefully find a marriage or death for him.

hume24

edit: Aha! Living with him is his wife! Helps me even more.

[MonicaL]

Hume

Never leave home without your '*' and '?' for SP Land - specially when looking for the MACs

Regards.

Monica 

[hume]

Monica,

I usually use both of them but this time, I think I was too sure it would be McKenzie.

Already for a marriage for David in Edinburgh to Margaret Burt. 

hume24

[MonicaL]

Hume

His 1891 Census entry, with a promotion by the look of it!:

David B McKenzie 46, Sergeant Major Recruiting Staff, b. Haddington, Haddingtonshire
Margaret McKenzie 33, b. Edinburgh
David B McKenzie 9, b. Perth Perthshire
Margaret B McKenzie 8, b. Perth Perthshire
Jane G McKenzie 6, b. Edinburgh
Isabella R McKenzie 3, b. Edinburgh

Address:     8 West Bow, St Giles, Edinburgh

[hume]

Thanks for that, Monica. From the 1881 marriage, he says he's a sergeant in the 76th regiment. I've now found his death in 1901 (Edinburgh). He was a clerk in a water (can't read the following word) office at the time.

hume24

[MonicaL]

I just saw his death entry on the index. When did he die in 1901? - I can't easily see the family on the 1901 census.

[hume]

I just saw his death entry on the index. When did he die in 1901? - I can't easily see the family on the 1901 census.

December 19th 1901 at 36 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh.

I seem to have found something in a lucky Google search. A postcard sent by Margaret (aged 8 in 1891) to her mother in 1904. Link here. Near the bottom of the page.