Who am I ? Kerrie Anne Christian, 4 x gt gd
daughter of Angus & Mary McKenzie. They came to NSW 1837 as Bounty Immigrants from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, on the William Nicol.
Tag Archives: Hebrides
Innse-Inche Gall – Islands of the Strangers or Foreigners aka the Scottish Hebrides including Skye etc – in the Norse-related History of Scotland
Somehow I had missed the references to Innse Gall in articles on the Hebrides of Scotland. Innse Gall is the Scottish Gaelic name for the Hebrides of the Western Isles, including the Isle of Skye and North Uist, places of … Continue reading
DNA & Discovering my mtdna – Scottish Irish or Viking ? Part Two
Autosomal (atDNA) DNA testing – Discovering McKenzie/MacKenzie Connections In early 2017 I undertook autosomal (atDNA) DNA testing with Ancestry.com. Since then I have found so many matches and connections across all of my ancestral lines, including for the McKenzie/MacKenzie line … Continue reading
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Scottish Highlanders and Islanders in Nova Scotia Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island
Research in Progress I’d been reviewing my DNA results and my sister’s prior to Ancestry’s August 31 2020 cull of smaller matches of less than 8cms, especially in relation to our maternal McKenzie – McLean – McIntosh ancestral lines. In … Continue reading
Research Notes – McKenzie McLean McDonald in the Hebrides and Gairloch Wester Ross Scottish Highlands
Research Notes – Discovering why is it so hard to find 18th Century information and records on my Hebridean and Highlands Ancestors There has been a suggestion from Roddy Balfour in Don Mackenzie’s “Over the Sea from Skye” that our … Continue reading
The Illawarra McKenzie Family 