St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster

[achiltibuie]

James Anderson senior of Knocknagael must have been dead by 1753, as in that year Ludovic (who in 1733 is described in a document quoted by Dobson as a squarewright in Inverness) in 1753 is described in a claim against Lovat under the Forfeited Estates Act as minister (?) in Inverness and eldest son of the deceased James Anderson of Knocknagael.   The date of Grant of Dalvey's bond is given in the dcuments of 1800 as 1766.  The right to it in liferent seems to have lain with Elizabeth Gordon, James's widow.   Since the leading Inverness merchant Gilbert Gordon, who himself had a son called Ludovic, was a witness at Ludovic's baptism, it's possible that Elizabeth may have been of the same branch of the the Gordons.  Not that any of this helps, probably.

[Haninger7]

A few facts that might help clarify some of these relationships:

A certain Alexander Mackenzie, tailor, and his wife Sarah Mansfield had children baptized between 1787 and 1807 at Marylebone and Holborn: Margaret, Mary, Sarah, Jabez, Hannah, Philip, and Euphemia.

This Alexander appears to be the (half?) brother of Lieut.-Col. Jabez Mackenzie of the Bengal Establishment.  They were sons of Lady Mary Mackenzie, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Cromarty.  Both took their mother's surname.  Alexander's paternity is unclear to me at this time (he seems to have been born several years before his mother's first marriage -- i.e. was illegitimate), but Jabez was Lady Mary's son by a certain Robert Clark(e) whom she married in 1750.

Lady Mary Mackenzie married four times, first to Robert Clarke, then to Thomas Drayton, then to John Ainslie, and finally to Henry Middleton.  The latter three were of South Carolina.

The Charleston Morning Post, 5 Jun 1786, records the arrival of "A. M'Kenzie, Esq; son of Lady Mary Middleton by a former marriage".

[Haninger7]

I finally located the will of the father-in-law of Alexander McKenzie.  He was John Manfield, Gentleman of Saint John Hampstead, and his 1812 will is available through the National Archives and on TheGenealogist.com as well as Ancestry.  His widow was Elizabeth, but she seems to have been his second wife, his first being Mary Byrchmore.  The will mentions two children, John Manfield and Sarah the wife of Alexander Mackenzie, as well as a granddaughter Mary Mackenzie.

Mary Mackenzie was born in 1789, according to the Holborn Lying-In hospital records, to Alexander Mackenzie, "Taylor" of "Dumphries" (no doubt Dumfries?) and his wife Sarah.  At the births of their next few children, Alexander is again described as a "Taylor" but of St Marylebone instead of Dumfries.

It seems clear to me that the Mary Mackenzie born in 1789 and mentioned in her grandfather John Manfield's will is the same Mary Mackenzie, daughter of the tailor Alexander Mackenzie, mentioned in Alexander Clark's will.  I have yet to find any kind of birth or Baptismal record for her sister Anne.  In fact, Alexander Clark's will is the only reference to her I can find.  I would like to know more about her.  That her name was mentioned before Mary's in Alexander Clark's will suggests she was older than Mary, but her absence from John Manfield's will is noted.  Did she die before that will?  Or was she born to another consort before Alexander Mackenzie's marriage to Sarah Manfield and thus unrelated to John Manfield?  Christening records also show a daughter Margaret Mackenzie born in 1787 who is mentioned in neither of the two wills.  What happened to her?

[dawnsh]

Hi Haninger7

Might I suggest you start a new topic if you are now looking for something else.

This topic started in 2011, runs to a very wordy 7 pages and to be honest, even I didn't re-read what has gone before as it didn't keep my interest. It started off looking for burials in St Martins in the Fields and has moved on somewhat.

If you do start a new topic please copy and paste the URL from the top of the screen for this topic into the new one.

Dawn