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The start of the Mackenzie family.
Historical review.
Our Connection to the MacKenzie Family
- Historical Background
William Lyon
Mackenzie (230) was a cousin to Duncan Mackenzie, the father of our Indian
Fighter, John Hamilton
Mackenzie (Photo 66a). William Lyon married
Isabel Baxter. Their daughter,
Isabel Grace Mackenzie married
John King. Their child was William Lyon Mackenzie
King (Photo 231) who became Prime Minister of Canada. When John Hamilton
Mackenzie's son, Franklin Mackenzie married Henry Blackwell's daughter, Mary
Janet Blackwell, that linked the Mackenzie family to the Blackwells. That
is the connection in this genealogy. The product of their marriage
resulted in the birth of Marie (Little girl in
Photo 61a). When Marie was born, her mother, Mary
Janette, died giving birth. Marie was the last of 7 children.
View the family below.
William Lyon Mackenzie
b. 12 Mar 1795 Dundee, Scotland
d. 28 Aug 1861 Toronto, Ontario
Married:
Isabel Baxter
d. 12 Dec 1872
William Lyon Mackenzie
Mackenzie was born in Dundee, Scotland and immigrated to Upper Canada in 1820.
From 1824 to 1834 he published the newspaper the Colonial Advocate in
York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario), attacking the upper class clique
known as the "Family Compact" which was in control of the government. He used
the newspaper as a forum for expressing the ideas of himself and his reform
party. In response to this, fifteen young men from wealthy, well-known families
of York raided his printing office, damaged his press, and threw cases of type
into Lake Ontario in 1826. In 1828 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of
Upper Canada, but was expelled five times for libel, each time being re-elected.
In 1834 he became the first mayor of Toronto. In 1837 he led the Upper Canada
Rebellion against Sir Francis Bond Head and the Family Compact, which was
quickly put down. Mackenzie escaped to the United States, and set up a
provisional Republic of Canada government on Navy Island in the Niagara River.
He was later imprisoned in the U.S. for his involvement in the
Caroline Affair.
An amnesty allowed his return to Canada in 1849,
and he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from
1851 to 1858. He died in his house (82 Bond Street) in Toronto in 1861 and
is buried in Toronto's Necropolis.
The home where he lived his last three
years is now a museum.
Photo 230
William Lyon Mackenzie
12 Mar 1795 - 28 Aug 1861
Photo 229
Historical Link William Lyon Mackenzie - Historical Link Rebellions of 1837
Children of
William Lyon Mackenzie and Isabel Baxter
Children of William Lyon Mackenzie and Isabel
Baxter
Isabel Grace Mackenzie
She was the 13th Child of William Lyon Mackenzie
More
b. 6 Feb 1843 New York (Her father was exiled there)
d. 1917
Married: 1872
John King
b. 1842
d. 1916
Information on John King Historical
Link
John King was raised by his mother and uncle in Berlin, Ontario (previous name
for Kitchener, Ontario). An excellent student, John King graduated from the
University of Toronto in 1865 with a master's degree and finished his law degree
three years later. John King had an easy-going personality that was
reflected in his management of family finances. The King family left Berlin in
1893 for Toronto and John King became a lecturer at Osgoode Hall Law School. His
legal practice did not prosper. As a result, the King family continually lived
beyond their means, a situation that was not remedied until Mackenzie King was
well-established in politics and helped support the family.
John King died in 1916.
John King
Information on Isabel Grace
Mackenzie
Information on Isabel Grave Mackenzie
Historical Link
William Lyon Mackenzie and Isabel Baxter had 13 children, the youngest of whom,
Isabel Grace, was born in New York City during the family's exile from Canada.
Isabel Grace Mackenzie was engaged to John King while he was still a law student
in Toronto. Five years later in 1872, when John King had established himself in
a law practice in Berlin, Ontario, they were married. Both were 30 years old.
A vivacious, humorous, and affectionate woman, Isabel Grace Mackenzie had high
expectations for her eldest son. The adversity of her childhood and the image of
her father as a national hero who suffered for a just cause were vividly
impressed upon her children.
Mrs. King died in 1917. Her death was a severe blow to Mackenzie King and an
important step in his growing belief in spiritualism
Isabel Grace Mackenzie
Children of
John King and Isabel Grace Mackenzie
Children of John King and Isabel Grace Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie King "Prime Minister of Canada"
Historical Link
b. 17 Dec 1874 Berlin, Ontario
d. 22 Jul 1950 Wright County, Quebec
Married: He never married.
William
Lyon Mackenzie King
"Prime Minister of Canada"
Rt Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King
Grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie
10th Prime Minister of Canada
Photo 231
Read this short review
The Connection
Duncan Mackenzie,
Cousin to William Lyon Mackenzie and father to John Hamilton Mackenzie
John Hamilton Mackenzie is father to Frank Mackenzie
It is here that the Mackenzie family joins with the Blackwell family
John H Mackenzie
Frank Mackenzie and Daughter Marie
abt
1862
Son of John H Mackenzie (left)
Photo 66a
Photo 61a
The Lineage of Duncan Mackenzie
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