In a message dated 2/8/1999 6:55:15 PM Mountain Standard Time, piper@isni.net writes: << Somewhere in the dim past, Clan Kenneth became Clan MacKenzie. Does anyone know of this... the circumstances ?? >> >From Johnston and Bacon's Clan Histories - Clan Mackenzie: "The name Mackenzie, or MacCoinneach as it appears in Gaelic, is generally taken to mean "son of Kenneth", and the original Kenneth, who lived in the thirteenth century, is said to have descended from a younger son of Gilleoin of the Aird. We know littled about the intervening generations; but in 1267 Kenneth was living at Eilean Donan, a stronghold at the mouth of Loch Duich ..." " ... the main point is that the Mackenzies were, without doubt, of Celtic stock and were not among the clans that originated from Norman ancestors, such as the Frasers, Gordons, and Chisholms." Cheers, Joe Broom