Kingussie, Scotland; Sydney, NSW; Hotspur & Portland, Victoria, Australia
Kenneth McKENZIE b. c1801, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland was married in 1834 at Kingussie, Inverness-shire, Scotland to Margaret McKAY, b. c1810 Inverness, Sct, dau of John & Jessie McKAY.
Kenneth McKENZIE, wife and 2 children arrived in Sydney, NSW in 1838 on the "St George", then on to Port Phillip on the "Hope" in 1839.
Kenneth McKENZIE was an early squatter at Hotspur and hotel owner in Portland.
Kenneth McKENZIE operated the "Snizort" Pastoral Run at Hotspur in partnership with Hector McDONALD from 1845 to 1854.
Kenneth McKENZIE held the licence for the Union Inn in Portland in the 1850s.
He built McKENZIE's Private Hotel in Tyers St Portland 1855/56.
Kenneth McKENZIE died in 1858 and his wife Margaret died in the previous year of 1857. They are both buried in the North Portland (Old) Cemetery.
Kenneth McKENZIE & Margaret McKAY appear to have had the following children:
- Jane McKENZIE b. 1835 Scotland, d. 1839, Port Phillip;
- May McKENZIE b. 1836 Scotland, ...........?;
- Alexander McKENZIE b. 1840 Melbourne, Port Phillip;
- Donald McKENZIE b. 1842 Merri Creek, Port Phillip.
- Elizabeth Ann McKENZIE b. 1847 Crawford, River, Vic, d. 1881, Melbourne, m. Alfred LAWRENCE.
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