EIGHTH GENERATION

134. Hugh MCKENZIE was born on 4 Feb 1793 in Edinburgh.⁽¹⁸⁸⁾ He was christened on 14 Feb 1793 in Edinburgh. He was a Flax Dresser about 1815 in Grassmarket, Edinburgh. From OPR marriage entry He died before 1851. Not mentioned in 1851 census - Agnes is head of the household, a widow. He was married to Agnes DUFF on 10 Oct 1815 in Edinburgh. ⁽¹⁸⁹⁾

135. Agnes DUFF was born on 13 Sep 1793 in Scoonie. She appeared on the census in 1851 in Kinghorn.⁽¹⁹⁰⁾ She appeared on the census in 1861 in Kinghorn.⁽¹⁹¹⁾ She died on 15 Feb 1874 in Kinghorn.⁽¹⁹²⁾ Children were:

67 i. Isabella MCKENZIE.
ii. Helen MCKENZIE was born on 22 Nov 1819 in Dysart. ⁽¹⁹³⁾ She was baptized on 26 Dec 1819 in Dysart. She appeared on the census in 1851 in Kinghorn.⁽¹⁹⁴⁾ She appeared on the census in 1861 in Kinghorn. ⁽¹⁹⁵⁾ She appeared on the census in 1871 in Kinghorn. ⁽¹⁹⁶⁾ She died on 9 Jan 1876 in Kinghorn. ⁽¹⁹⁷⁾
iii. David MCKENZIE was born on 15 Jun 1822 in Dysart.
iv. Elizabeth MCKENZIE was born on 1 Jun 1824 in Dysart. ⁽¹⁹⁸⁾
v. James Wilson MCKENZIE was born on 20 Oct 1826 in Dysart. ⁽¹⁹⁹⁾
vi. John MCKENZIE was born on 24 Nov 1828 in Kinghorn.⁽²⁰⁰⁾ He was baptized on 28 Dec 1828 in Kinghorn. He emigrated in 1853 from Melbourne, Australia. John McKenzie left Scotland to escape the economic depression following the potatoe famines in the late 1840's. They came to Australia under contract as shepherds to replace those men who had left the squatters sheep runs to go to the gold diggings. John Mck was the son of Hugh also a flax dresser and heckle maker (a flaxdresser uses a comb frame called a heckle to dress or comb the flax). He was a Shepherd in Jun 1853 in Mt William Station, Australia. On 21st May 1853 they and a number of fellow passengers departed to work for Chirnsides. Mck were employed as shepherds. 12 months was the original term of work. By the late 1850's they were living and working at Carranballac. In 1872 James was sent to scout out the Heytesbury area between Camperdown and Port Campbell. He was a Farmer between 1878 and 1897 in Inglewood, Victoria, Australia. In 1878 took up 100 acres (part of James 1875 selection) in the Parish of Paarette. This was purchased in 1896. He died on 31 May 1897 in Newfield, Victoria, Australia. He was buried on 2 Jun 1897 in Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia.
vii. Hugh MCKENZIE was born in 1835.