15315: Charles Mackenzie

Charles Mackenzie (1776-c1845), became a tenant in Keose from c1814 and appears on the 1841 census but has died before the 1851 census. He was married to a woman named Mary (1776-c1853). No further information is known about her.

Charles crops up in a court case in c1832:

"The defenders are four individuals who Mr Simson had on his glebe or farm as subservient cottars or subtenants or in other words might be termed as menial servants whose operations were directed to tilling his glebe, making kelp and carrying home his peats.

…………..your lordship will observe that the pursuers in this action are three daughters of the late Mr Simson and his only son Charles. Unfortunately the parties are so situated as to consider Charles almost an outcast of the family in consequence of an alleged amorous intrigue betwixt himself and a daughter of one of the poor defendants viz Charles Mackenzie which imputation has led to discovery by the family and in order to be avenged of their brother for this intimacy subsisting betwixt him and the defenders who were his fathers cottars".

SC33/17/14, Heirs of Alexander Simson v Macleod, Mackenzie, Mackenzie and Macaulay, tenants in Keose, 1832-1833

Also

"Compeared Charles Mackenzie one of the defenders who being solemly sworn and examined depones that he possessed a portion of lands at Keose in the parish of Lochs from the late Reverend Mr Alexander Simson, minister of that parish, prior to martinmas eighteen hundred and thirty, and the defender possessed the said lands for sixteen years previous to said Martinmas 1830……..at the yearly rent of four pounds five shillings…."

SC33/17/14, Heirs of Alexander Simson v Macleod, Mackenzie, Mackenzie and Macaulay, tenants in Keose, 1832-1833