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kenzie (na Cuirc), X. of Kintail, by liis wife, Elizabeth, elaughter of John,
Earl of Athol, and by her had issue —
1 . John, who married, as already seen, Isabel, daughter of Alexander
Mackenzie, II. of Fairburn, by whom he had an only daughter, also
named Isabel, who married Colin Mackenzie of Kinnock. John died be-
fore his father in IGOl.
2. Alexander, his successor.
3. Murdoch, killed unmarried, at Eaasay, in IGll.
4. Kenneth, I. of Davochcairn, who married, first, Margaret, daughter
of James Cuthbert of Alterlies and Drakies, Inverness, Avith issue — present
representation unknown ; and secondly, a daughter of Hector Mackenzie,
IV. of Fairburn, also with issue — present rfjiresentation unknown. He
died at Davochcairn in 1643, and was buried at Beauly.
5. Duncan of Sand, who married a daughter of Hugh Eraser of Bella-
drum, by whom he had issue, two sons and three daughters. He died at
Sand of Gairloch from the bite of a cat at Inverasdle, in 1635, and is
buried at Gairloch. The sons were Alexander, who succeeded him at
Sand, and John, who married a d;iugV,ter of ]\Ir George IMunro, minister
of Urquhart, and resided at Ardnagrask. Katharine, tlie eldest daughtei-.
married, first, a son of Allan MacEanald Macdonald, heir male of Moydart,
then residing at Baile (jhnuic, or Hiltown of Beauly, and secondly,
William Fiaser of Boblanie, with issue, seven daughters, all married ; one
to Boss of Bindale ; another of Sand's daughters married Thomas Mac- ij
kenzie, brother of Alexander Mackenzie, V. of Achilty; and the third
married Duncan Maclan vie Eachainn Chaoil.
Alexander, who succeeded his father at Sand (retoiu' 1647), married a
daughter of INIurdo Mackenzie of Kernsary — situated at the northern ex-
tremity of Loch Maree — fifth son of Colin Cam, XL of Kintail, by his
wife, Barbara, daughter of John Grant, XII. of Grant. Murdoch married
a daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, 11. of Fairburn, by whom he had, in
addition to the daughter who became the Avife of Alexander INlackenzie of
Sand, an only lawful son, John, killed in 1645 at the Battle of Auldearn,
in command of the Lews Mackenzie Picgiment, whereupon the lineal and
.solo representation of the Kernsary family reverted to the descendants of
Alexander Mackenzie of Sand, through Mary, his wife. By her Sand
had two sons and two daughters. lie was succeeded, in 1656, by the
eldest son, Hector, Avho also appears to have succeeded his uncle John in
Ardnagrask. He jnarried Janet Eraser, with issue — John, who died at
Ardnagrask in 1759, and left a son, Alexander, who got a new tack of
Ardnagrask for forty years, commencing in May 1760 ;* and who married \
Helen ]\Iackenzie, daughter of Donald, great-grandson of INIurdo Mac-
kenzie, Y. of Hilton (by his wife, Jean Forbes of Eaddery), by whom he
had a large family of five sons and six daughters. The eldest son, John,
a merchant in, and Bailie of, Inverness, Avas born at Ardnagrask in 1762.
He married Prudence, daughter of Eichard Ord, IVIerkinch, Inverness, by
his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Jolin, third son of Alexander. VIL of
Davochmaluag,t by Avhom he had five sons and tAvo daughters. Three of
* Gairloch Papers. _ ^^
t See Davoclimaluas gouealcgy in " Hiiitoiy ami Genealogies of the Mackenzies by
the I'lescut writer.