News
August 2025: Clan MacKenzie International Gathering
The International Gathering, organised by the Clan MacKenzie Society of Scotland & the UK, will take place between the 2nd and the 9th of August in Inverness - with days tours elsewhere in the Highlands, and attendance at the Strathpeffer Highland Games in the grounds of Castle Leod on Saturday 9th August. For details go to the CMSSUK website: www.clanmackenziesociety.co.uk.
18 October 2024: Graeme Mackenzie giving Genealogy Seminars at Stone Mountain Highland Games.
For details see: www.smhg.org.
September 2024: Andrew McKenzie's new book on the Brahan Seer published.
"Scotland's Nostradamus: A Quest for the Brahan Seer" was published by Unicorn on 16 September and as well as being available from bookshops, can be purchaed from Amazon.
August 2024: Monumental Inscriptions from the burial ground of the MacKenzies of Ord.
“A MacKenzie Burial Ground” (near Ardnacrask in the parish of Urray, Ross & Cromarty) in HFHS Journal, Vol. 42., No. 4 (August 2024).
2024: Confirmation that the name MacKenney/McKenny is a form of MacKenzie.
Research recently done for a MacKenzie descendant in New York has disvovered records of one of his ancestors in Henrico and New Kent Counties, Virginia, having the following versions of his surname recorded between the years 1683 and 1715: Mackeny, Makenny, Meckeney, Mackenny, Makenney, Mackeny, Meckenny, MacKenny, McKenny, McKensy, McKensie, McKenzy, McKenzie.
"Clanship, Faith and Jacobitism: a Scottish Gaelic poetry collection, 1688-93" in L. Davis & K. James, eds. Shaping Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks (Edinburgh University Press).
Feb 2023: Sept of MacIver/McIvor
Article by Graeme Mackenzie, "MacIver/MacIvor: A Sept of Clan MacKenzie?" in the Highland Family History Society Journal, Volume 41, Issue No 3 (Feb 2023). This is the latest in the series on the clan's septs started by Graeme in the Journal of the Clan Mackenzie Society of Scotland & the UK in 2020. For the Highland Family History Society see wwwhighlandfhs.org.
"Looking for a Gàidhealtachd in the south-west. Identifying Gaels in the historical record, c. 1400-1805" in E. J. Cowan, M. Ansell, & R. Black eds. Galloway: The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland (Aberdeen, 2022).
Graeme Mackenzie appointed Editor of the Highland Family History Journal
2022: The MacKenzie Initiative
A new website created by Jared Smart and featuring a whole host of historical info supplied by Andrew McKenzie - author of the clan history "May We Be Britons" - with podcasts of Jared in conversation with various MacKenzies and descendants of MacKenzies.
It can be found at www.clanmackenzie.org.
May 2021
Recent articles by Aonghas MacCoinnich, Senior Lecturer (Celtic & Gaelic) at Glasgow University’s School of Humanities:
Various profiles in The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers, eds. C. McCracken-Flesher & A. Riach (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), including the Gaelic poet, Alexander Mackenzie of Achilty (Alasdair mac Mhurchaidh), Ross-shire & Lewis, died c. 1642.
25 April 2021: More Septs / Related Names ?
Recent research suggests the following might be added to the list of Septs & Related Names:
M'Comas/M'Comie; Donaldson; Wilson.
For more information about this, please go to the page about Historical & Genealogical Updates.
25 April 2021: Museums in MacKenzie Country announce re-opening dates
The award-winning Gairloch Museum re-opens on 27 April 2021. See their website here.
The Groam House Museum in Rosemarkie re-opens on 1 May 2021. See their website here.
The Ullapool Museum re-opens on 28 May 2021. See their website here.
The Cromarty Couthouse Museum re-opens on 29 May 2021. See their website here.
The "Tain Through Time" Museum re-opens on 21 June 2021. See their website here.
25 April 2021: MacKenzies of Dalmore
Recent research has traced this important branch of the clan in Aberdeenshire back to the 16th century.
For more information about this, please go to the page about Historical & Genealogical Updates.
25 April 2021: Siobhan Mackenzie Tartans
The latest offering from the award-winning kiltmaker and tartan dress designer, Siobhan Mackenzie, is the "Silk Scarves Capsule Collection", which includes "An abstract illustration of green and purple thistles on the Dress Mackenzie tartan". See her website here.
25 April 2021: New thoughts about the Origins of Clan MacKenzie
Graeme Mackenzie's researches into the history of the MacKenzies of Dalmore - see above - and his discovery of early MacKenzies in Aberdeenshire, may connect with suggestions about a possible origin for the clan in Buchan made some years ago in his doctoral thesis by Aonghus MacCoinnich of Glasgow University. Graeme will be developing this line of enquiry in a paper to be included in the second volume of his historical and genealogical essays, "Cabarfeidh's Cousins" - the publication date of which will be announced on this page later this year.