Nathaniel McKENZIE born ca 1845 Warrnambool / Belfast, Victoria, Australia, son of _____ and ____ was married in 1871 in ___, Vic, Aus to Mary Ann COOKE, born ca 1843 ____, daughter of James COOKE and Susanna PYERS.

Nathaniel McKENZIE, of Carapook, having 2 school-aged children and living 1 mile South of Carapook and was one of the signatures to the 1875 petition aimed at establishing a new school at Carapook. Nathaniel appears to have died in Bengigo in 1935 and Mary Ann at Inglewood in 1898.

Nathaniel McKENZIE & Mary Ann COOKE appear to have had the following family:

1. Emily McKENZIE b. 1870, Coleraine, d. 1963 Portland, m. Joseph Henry RENNEY
2. Arthur Alexander McKENZIE b. 1873, Dundas, d. 1938 Mooroopna, m. Martha CLOSE
3. Sarah Ann McKENZIE b. 1875, Coleraine, Vic, ___?
4. James McKENZIE b. 1877, Carapook, d. 1879
5. Mary Elizabeth McKENZIE b. 1882, Natimuk, d. 1942, Melbourne, mar. Edmund ANDERSON
6. Catherine Victoria McKENZIE b. 1885, Natimuk, d. 1969, Melbourne, m. Lewis DICKSON
7. Nathaniel McKENZIE b. 1888, Natimuk, Vic ___?