Alexander Mackenzie, 3rd of Applecross

Biographical Summary

"III. Alexander Mackenzie, third of Applecross. He joined the Earl of Mar in 1715, and was Lieutenant-Colonel of Seaforth's 1st Regiment, for which he was attainted of high treason, and the estates forfeited to the Crown. He married, first, Anne, daughter of Alexander Fraser, Tutor of Lovat, by his wife Sibella (Elizabeth), daughter of Kenneth, first Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, with issue —

• Roderick, his heir and successor.
• Kenneth, a merchant in Inverness, who married a daughter of Rose, Merkinch.
• Colin, a doctor in Edinburgh, who married Miss Dunbar of Link wood.
• Sibella, who in 1697 married the Hon. John Mackenzie of Assynt, second son of Kenneth Mor, third Earl of Seaforth, with issue — Kenneth, who married Frances, his cousin, daughter of Colonel Alexander, without issue.
• Anne, who in 1707 married first Alexander Mackenzie, II. of Kinachulladrum, with issue — Anne, his only child in life in 1766; secondly, John MacRae, of Dornie ; and, thirdly, Colin Mackenzie of the Gruinard family, a goldsmith in Inverness.
• A daughter, who married the Rev, Archibald Macqueen, minister of Snizort, Skye.
• Another married William Mackenzie, of Shieldaig.
• Mary, who married Malcolm Macleod, VIII. of Raasay, with issue — his heir and others.

Alexander married, secondly, Margaret, daughter of Mackenzie, of Fairburn, with issue — one son, Simon, in the Foot Guards. He married, thirdly, in 1713, Christian, daughter of Fraser of Belladrum, with issue — a daughter, who married her cousin, Roderick Mackenzie of Achavannie, son of John Og, killed at Sheriffmuir.

He was succeeded as representative of the family by his eldest son."

SOURCE: History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name; Alexander Mackenzie; 1894; page 599