William Mackenzie History

Which Mackenzie I mean and Which clan he belongs to?

This Mackenzie I mean is the one who was born in Colton Terrace, Edinburgh around 1820's. "The Cruise of the Janet Nicol" written by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, page 115 says about his place of birth. Some information we have are begins when he left Scotland to New Zealand for new employment and new life.


William Mackenzie was born in Colton Terrace, Edinburgh around the 1820's and when during his twenties, he moved to New Zealand to work there. I searched over and traced his tracks but I never got the exact result because of the same names which caused confusions. 

He worked in New Zealand for a couple of years and then he moved to the Fiji Islands as a trader and worked with Mcfalane company from New Zealand. He stayed in Sigatoka and married to a village woman. I don't get the name of that woman.


After this, he then sailed to the Gilbert islands as a trader and arrived in Arorae, the last island of Kiribati from the south. He married to Reetira and had four children named Melissa Mackenzie, George Mackenzie, William Jnr Mackenzie, and Ernest Mackenzie. 

I think this short history might click on your mind that this is not a full information, but I think that it would be more helpful to my family members that our great William Mackenzie was a Scottish man and he really had a gut to be a Scottish in his real image.


Any update information will be posted soon as long as I have helped by the families. 



For more information, feel free to visit the Mackenzie from Kiribati group.  
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