Janet Mackenzie (abt. 1504 - 1618)

Born about 1504 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland

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Died 1618 at about age 114 in Scotland

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Biography

Janet was born about 1509. She was the daughter of John Mackenzie of Killin, IX of Kintail.

Janet was an illegitimate daughter of John Mackenzie of Killin, IX of Kintail, and was married, as her first husband, to Mackay of Reay. Her mother appears to have belonged to Strathconon, where, among her relations, the son, Torquil Conanach, was fostered, a fact which accounts for this sobriquet, by which he is ever afterwards known. The only issue of Macleod's marriage with Janet Mackenzie, widow of Mackay of Reay, was this Torquil, " afterwards, from his residence among his mother's relations in Strathconon, surnamed Connanach.

Janet, widow of Mackay of Reay, married 2nd Roderick Macleod, X. of the Lewis. By this marriage they had issue —

1. Torquil " Conanach," so-called from his having been brought up by his mother's relations in Strathconan. Torquil married Margaret, daughter of Angus Macdonald, VII. of Glengarry, widow of Cuthbert of Castlehill, Inverness, by whom she became progenitrix of the famous Charles Colbert, Marquis of Seignelay, Minister of Louis XVI. of France. Torquil Conanach, Roderick's only son by the first marriage, left no surviving male issue.

John Mac Gillechallum, alias Ian na Tuaighe, as we have already seen, first carried away Janet Mackenzie, daughter of John Mackenzie, IX of Kintail, the first wife of Roderick Macleod, X. of the Lewis, and subsequently, after she had been divorced by her first husband, married her. By her Ian na Tuaigh had issue, several sons, and one daughter who married Alastair Roy, eldest son of Hector Cam, son of Hector Roy Mackenzie, first of the family of Gairloch, with issue. John married, secondly, a daughter of Allan MacRory of Gairloch and sister of Ruairi Nimhneach, by whom also he had issue several sons.

Sources

• History of the Macleods with genealogies of the principal families of the name, by Mackenzie, Alexander, 1838-1898, page 299, 327, 298, 299, 338, 346, 348, 357. link
• The Associated Clan MacLeod Societies. Chiefly Descent. link
• History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Mackenzie, Alexander, 1838-1898. page 394. link
• Clan Macleod of Raasay. Wikipedia. link