Kenneth Francis MACKENZIE
- Born: Abt 1752
- Marriage (1): Anne TOWNSHEND on 22 May 1807 in Ruthwell, Dumfries, Scotland 1
- Died: 1831 aged about 79
General Notes:
2. Colin, who in 1748, married Mary, daughter of Sir John Cochrane
of Waterside, son of the Hon. Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree,
second son of the first Earl of Dundonald, with issue - Kenneth
Francis, Advocate-General, President of the Council, and Acting
Governor of the Island of Granada, in the West Indies. He spent
L25,000 of his own money in defending the island successfully
against the French, for which Pitt offered him a Baronetcy, which he
declined. Colin had also two daughters - Rose, who married John
Wilson, and Margaret, who married Gilbert Robertson of Kindeace.
Kenneth Francis married Anne Townshend. She died in 1847. He
died in 1831, aged 83, and left issue
Wikipedia, Colin Mackenzie: He was born in London on 25 March 1806, and baptised at St James's Church, Piccadilly, the youngest son but one of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie (died 1831) and his wife, Anne Townsend. His father, who belonged to the Redcastle branch of Mackenzies, was attorney-general of Grenada, and lost much during the war with France, 1793'961815.
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In the late 1780s or early 1790s Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, a Scottish barrister, purchased Lusignan, a "very large" plantation in Demerara which generally "gave a very good income" and supporting the family for almost fifty years. Kenneth Francis Mackenzie was from a junior line of the Mackenzies of Redcastle, in Ross-shire.
Mackenzie's wife was Ann Townsend [1769-1846] and his will makes it clear that she owned slaves in her own right, which were placed on plantation Lusignan. She may have been related to either Thomas or William Townshend, who owned plantations in Berbice in the 1790s.
His nephew, John Wilson (the son of his sister Rose), became a partner of John Gladstone of Liverpool.
Mackenzie's ties to the Caribbean area were strengthened when about 1793 he was appointed attorney general in Grenada, serving also as President of the Council.
Dr George Pinckard made an expedition up the Demerara river with Mackenzie in 1797 and also visited Lusignan [Pinckard, III, p380], a 500-acre coastal cotton plantation which was one of the few plantations with an ornamental garden.
For a later account of Lusignan see letter from John Maclean, 1824. This account is part of Alexander Macdonnell's pro-slavery Considerations on Negro Slavery [1824].
A brand of Demerara rum called 'KFM' [Kenneth Francis Mackenzie] is still produced on the Enmore plantation.
Source: see biography of Mackenzie' son, Charles Kenneth Mackenzie.
Kenneth married Anne TOWNSHEND on 22 May 1807 in Ruthwell, Dumfries, Scotland.1 (Anne TOWNSHEND was born about 1769 in Scotland 1 and died about 1847.)
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