MACKENZIE, Roderick 3rd of Redcastle 1
User ID: L480. Roderick married Isobel MACKENZIE, daughter of Alexander MACKENZIE of Kilcoy and Jean FRASER.1 (Isobel MACKENZIE was born about 1612.) Marriage Notes: "Roderick Mackenzie, third of Redcastle. He has a sasine in 1629 and in 1638. He was fined £2000 for taking part in the wars of Montrose against the Covenanters, and was for some time imprisoned in Edinburgh along with Thomas Mackenzie of Pluscardine. During his imprisonment General Carr besieged his castle, the only stronghold which still held out for the King ; killed the commander, who exposed himself on the ramparts, set fire to the castle, and razed its walls to the ground. He was liberated on the intercession of his maternal uncle on payment of 7000 merks Scots. In 1690 he excambed with Kenneth Mackenzie, I. of Dundonnel, formerly of Glenmarkassie, the lands of Acha-ta-Donill, Blachlach, etc., belonging to Redcastle for the davoch of Meikle Scatwell, of old possessed by Allan and Alexander Mackenzie. He married Isobel, daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, I. of Kilcoy, with issue" |