Chapter VII: WILLIAM MACKENZIE, who was born on the 3rd of May, 1822

He founded the Distillery of Dailuaine in 1851, one of the most extensive malt distilleries in Scotland. He married on the 5th of October, 1844, Jean, daughter of William Thomson, Knockando, with issue -

1. John, born on the 28th of July, 1845. He was drowned at sea, without issue.

2. William, born on the 9th of October, 1846. He went to the West Indies and died there unmarried, on the 10th of December, 1893, at Paramaribo, Surinam.

3. Thomas, who succeeded his father in Dailuaine.

4. Alexander, who was born on the 11th of July, 1851. He is in South Africa, and still unmarried.

5. William Grant, born on the 21st of June, 1859, and still unmarried.

6. Lewis Grant, born on the 10th of January, 1862. He went to California, and is still unmarried.

7. Ann.

8. Jane.

9. Margaret.

10. Grace Penuel, who married Dr Robert Cochrane Buist, Dundee, with issue - a son and daughter.

11. Mary Forbes.

William died at Dailuaine, on the 17th of May, 1865, and was succeeded there by his son,

VIII. THOMAS MACKENZIE, now of Dailuaine, and since the death of his elder brother William in December, 1893, heir-male of the family. Born on the 18th of March, 1848, he on the 30th of October, 1877, married Emily, daughter of Edwin Holt of Rosehill, Worcestershire.

SLIOCHD ALASTAIR CHAIM.

THE progenitor of this family, not one of whom so far as known ever owned an acre of land until now, was