Hi Jane, I haven't been able to trace them yet but I have a vague recollection that his marriage entry states his father to be Murdo also, although I don't seem to have included this in my database. I will check the actual certificate when I get home this evening and let you know. Regards, Mary > -----Original Message----- > From: Jane Macgillivray [SMTP:jane@providence2000.freeserve.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:52 PM > To: SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SCT-INV-L] MacKenzie, Murdo; Kilmuir by Uig, Inverness, > 1820-1839 > > Hi Mary, > Have you traced Murdoch McKenzie's parents? Thanks, Jane > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Blewett <Mary@jleon.co.uk> > To: 'Jane Macgillivray' <jane@providence2000.freeserve.co.uk>; > SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com <SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 08 November 2000 13:55 > Subject: RE: [SCT-INV-L] MacKenzie, Murdo; Kilmuir by Uig, Inverness, > 1820-1839 > > > >Hello Jane, > > > >I think this could be my Murdoch McKenzie who was living in Daviot when > his > >daughter, Janet, married in 1831. He married Cathrin McDonald from Aldozy > in > >1803 in Urquhart & Glenmoriston. > > > >As witnesses were often relatives it seems possible that there could be a > >connection between the McGillivray/McBeans and the McKenzie/McDonalds. > > > >Regards, > > > >Mary > > > >Surnames: McDonald, McKenzie, McMillan > > Cooper, Matheson, Stewart, McGruer, Robertson, McRae > > > > Mostly in the parishes of Boleskine & Abertarff and Urquhart > > & Glenmoriston > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jane Macgillivray [SMTP:jane@providence2000.freeserve.co.uk] > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 1:08 AM > >> To: SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com > >> Subject: [SCT-INV-L] MacKenzie, Murdo; Kilmuir by Uig, Inverness, > >> 1820-1839 > >> > >> Dear Brian, > >> I found a Murdoch McKenzie as a witness in the parish of Daviot & > >> Dunlichity > >> (I don't know if the same, the name may have been quite common) > >> William MacGillivray and Catherine MacBean at Achdaneem > >> > >> had child: > >> James 1812 W Donald McDonald, Murdoch McKenzie > >> 1818 Janet (no details) > >> Catherine MacBean MacGillivray, 32 Wells Street, Inverness (her death > >> notice > > >> > > >> >______________________________ > >