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Generation: 2
2. | Sir Evan MacKenzie, Bart. was born on 15 Aug 1816; was christened on 25 Oct 1816 in Knockbain or Duddingston (son of Sir Colin MacKenzie, Bart., 8th of Kilcoy and Isabella Cameron); died on 12 Dec 1883 in London. Notes:
He came to Sydney 1840 with his brother Colin, to Qld 1841/2 to found Kilcoy station near Ipswich, then a boiling down works in Brisbane 1844. Sold up and returned to Scotland to marry and to succeed his father in the baronetcy and the unentailed estates.
He was again at Kilcoy station in February 1845 (ref. Diary of his cousin, D. C. Cameron)
Evan married Sarah Ann Philomena Parkes on 20 Nov 1844. Sarah was born in ca 1827 in Belfast; died after 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 3
Generation: 4
10. | Ewen Cameron, XII of Glennevis was born in 1738 (son of Alexander Cameron, of Glennevis and Mary Cameron); died on 11 Dec 1797 in Glen Nevis. Notes:
Joined 78th Fraser Highlanders as ensign 1757 (aged 18), lieut. 1758, wounded Jul 1759 and retired on half pay 1763
A story that "He was wounded in the neck while an infant, concealed in his mother's plaid after the '45" does not fit known dates. See - "in a letter sent to Bishop Forbes by the wife of Dr. Archibald Cameron regarding her sister married to Alexander Cameron of Glennevis she reports that the gold lace and gold buttons were cut from the young son's coat and that he was wounded."(Ref. The Companions of Pickle, by Andrew Lang)
Died:
aged 57
Ewen married Helen Grant on 22 Sep 1778. Helen (daughter of Patrick Grant, 9th of Glenmoriston and Henrietta Grant) was born on 8 May 1760 in Glenmoriston; died on 1 Aug 1828 in Kinlochlevan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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