Person:Kezia MacKenzie (2)

John Allan Rankin had a 2nd wife (family letters). Apparently she was Kezia (information, K. Sillars). Kezia Scott MACKENZIE b. 2sep1833 Edinburgh, daughter of William MacKenzie and Elizabeth Scott (IGI). In 1841 William Mackenzie (1801 Midlothian, surgeon), Elizabeth (1811 overseas foreign), Kezia (1834 Midlothian) were at Newington, Edinburgh (census). Kezia Scott Rankin married Alexander Crombie 1st qtr 1867 at Wandsworth, Surrey (bmd). Kezia Scott, wife of Major Alexander Crombie, d. 1880 London (Hampshire Telegraph). Major Alexander Crombie served with 72nd Highlanders in Crimean War from 1855 and in India 1858-9 (1888 army list, findmypast). Kezia Scott Crombie (1833) d. 1880 at London (bmd). In 1871 Alexander Crombie (1826 England, Major late 72 Highlander Island), wife Virginia Scott (1834 Edinburgh), children, b. Edinburgh, Alexander (1868), Edith (1870), male cousin Mango C.M. Gray (male 1850 Irvine, Ayrshire, banker) Midlothian (ancestry.com census). The children’s births are on IGI; the mother of Alexander was “Kezia Scott Mackenzie or Rankin” (IGI). Thus Kezia had a connection with Irvine. In 1851 David Gray (1801 Irvine, brewer), wife Georgina ?McKenzie (1817 Edinburgh), son Mungo M.C. (1850 Irvine) were at Bridgegate, Irvine, Ayrshire (freecen census). Georgina was maybe related to Kezia; Mungo Campbell Mackenzie Gray was b. 1849 at Irvine, son of Georgina Gibson Mackenzie (1813 Edinburgh) (IGI). The husband of Georgina, David Gray, was maybe town clerk in 1866 and executor of the will of Thomas Campbell, who married Anne Rankine. GWR shares of late John Allan Rankin of Heathfield (d. ?14sep1864) passed to Mrs. Kezia Scott Mackenzie or Rankin, relict, and John Muir, John Harvey, Thomas Campbell, David Gray, John Smith, Alexander Gilmour. GWR shares were transacted on marriage of Kezia Scott Rankin to Alex Crombie, 23feb1867 (findmypast). The certificate of death of Keziah Scott Crombie, wife of Major Alexander Crombie, late of 61 Belgrave Rd., London, was verified by William Christie, 20feb1880, of Gilmour and Christie, W.B., Irvine; this affected GWR shares of David Gray, town clerk, late of Irvine, John Muir (Edinburgh), Alexander Gilmour (Irvine writer), John Paterson (Irvine banker), Alexander Bennett McGrigor (Glasgow writer) (findmypast). The death, 6jan1881, of David Gray (Irvine town clerk), verified by Wm Christie, affected Keziah Scott Crombie (wife of Major Alexander Crombie), John Muir (Edinburgh), Alexander Gilmour (writer, Irvine), John Paterson (banker, Irvine), Alexander Bennett McGrigor (writer, Glasgow) (GWR shares, findmypast). Gilmour and Paterson were sons in law of Anne Rankine (1795 Sorn, Ayrshire-1860 Irvine), cousin of John Allan Rankin.

1.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
   Batch #: C119905, Source Call #: 1040214, Printout Call #: 6901046, Dates: 1833 - 1842.
2.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1841 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).