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clx SUCCESSORS IN THE CRO MART IE-MACKENZIE
heirs-portioners, and succeeding without division, etc. Lord Macleod having no
children, the succession, on his death in 1789, in terms of his entail, opened to
his cousin, Kenneth Mackenzie, who was the only son of his uncle, Captain the
Honourable Roderick Mackenzie, brother-german of the third Earl of Oromartie.
Kenneth Mackenzie adopted the territorial designation of Cromartie. He possessed
the Cromartie Estates for seven years, during which he completed the building
of the new mansion-house, which was commenced by Lord Macleod, and made
several improvements near it, to fulfil the intention, as he said, of his late worthy
cousin.
Kenneth Mackenzie married, on 30th April 1792, Jane, youngest daughter of
Charles Petley, Esquire of Riverhead, in Kent, without male issue. She survived
him and married, secondly, Donald Macleod of Geanies, in the county of Eoss.
Kenneth Mackenzie of Cromartie died in 1796, and in him ended the last legiti-
mate male descendant of his great-grandfather, George first Earl of Cromartie.
He was succeeded in the estates by his cousin,
LADY ISABELLA MACKENZIE, Dowager Lady Elibank. 1796-1801.
Lady Isabella Mackenzie, dowager Lady Elibank, was the eldest sister of
Lord Macleod. She was born on the 30th of March 1725; married at Ballincrieff,
in January 1760, George sixth Lord Elibank, to whom she had two daughters,
Maria and Isabella. Lady Elibank succeeded to the Cromartie-Mackenzie Estates
in 1796, and possessed them for five years till her death, which occurred at
Tarbat House, on the 28th December 1801, aged 77. A brief notice of the
devoted attachment of this lady to her parents and her brothers and sisters in
their distress, after the forfeiture in 1746, has been given in the memoir of her
father, George third Earl of Cromartie. She was succeeded by her elder daughter,
THE HONOURABLE MARIA MURRAY HAY-MACKENZIE. 1801-1858.
Edward Hay, Esquire of Newhall.
She married, on 3d May 1790, Edward Hay, Esquire of Newhall, brother
of George seventh, and uncle of the present Marquis of Tweeddale; and, in
terms of Lord Macleod's entail, Mr. Hay assumed the additional surname of Mac.