mrsaird, I realize many years have passed since your original post. Did you find your relatives?
Is this some of them?
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~coigach/genealogy/sou-east.htm#41morefield-25[/url]
Charles MacKenzie 55 Crofter
Isabell do. 45
William do. 25
Janet do. 20
Colina do. 15
The site indicates: Isabell is Widowed in 1851 at Kenachrine 51-79.
Two children of Charles and Isabell; Andrewina and William, emigrate to Tasmania in 1853, see McNab 525, that listing has them resident at Morefield. The passage cost A$4,500 in today's dollars.
McKENZIE, William 36 M Hired 6 February as a Labourer by Mr. R.Thompson of Mount Esk for a wage of #50 per 12 months, with keep
Mary 26 M Hired 6 February
Isabella Inf. S Hired 6 February
Andrewina (sister) 26 S Hired 6 February as a General Servant by W.H. Bowden of O'Briens Bridge at a wage of #20 for three months with keep.
Further notes indicate:
The Parish Register says William McKenzie married Mary Matheson 6 January, 1853.
Have not yet seen William in the 1851 census, but in 1841 he was with his parents and two sisters (not Andrewina) at Morefield 41-25
Mary Matheson was with her Widowed mother in the 1851 census at Ullapool 51-109. Her parents were Duncan Matheson, sometime carter of fish from Gruinard and Ullapool to Conon Bridge and latterly InnKeeper, an occupation continued by his Widow Flora, maideb surname Tolmie.
Andrewina was in the 1851 census with her Widowed mother and two sisters near to Morefield at Kenachrine 51-79.
William signed a Promissory Note before leaving Scotland, see hire.htm#9
Rod Edmond notes that William and Andrewina were siblings of Alexander MacKenzie, who had been first husband of Margaret MacLeod in the next family, McNab 526.
I am interested to know whether you found John McLeod's parents William McLeod and Margaret McLean. Did you find their birth location? I haven't.
