Mackenzie baronets of Darien (1703)

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The Mackenzie baronetcy, of Darien in the County of Ross, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 22 February 1703 for Alexander Mackenzie. Cokayne comments on the lack of official documentation for this creation. [1]

Mackenzie baronets, of Darien (1703)

The title became dormant on the death of the 5th Baronet in 1839. It was then assumed in the period 1900 to 1904 by Edward Mackenzie-Mackenzie. He was the son of Edward Maunde Thompson and his wife Georgina Susanna Mackenzie (born 1839), posthumous daughter of the 5th Baronet. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cokayne, George Edward (1904). Complete Baronetage. Vol. IV. W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 413–414.
  2. "Sir Alexander Mackenzie of Darien, 1663 - 20th Dec 1744, Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  3. "George McKenzie, Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  4. "Sir Arthur MacKenzie, 6th Sep 1782 - 2nd Aug 1836, Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.

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