Family and Posterity
Mackenzie married Margaret Seton, the daughter of Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, the Lord Chancellor of Scotland. Their only son, Alexander, died of smallpox at Chanonry on 3 June 1629. Margaret died at Edinburgh on 20 February 1631, after which Mackenzie contracted a lingering sickness which confined him to his chamber for some time before his death. He died at Chanonry on 15 April 1633 and was succeeded in his title and estates by his brother, George.
He was survived by two daughters. Anne (d. 1705) married, first, Alexander Lindsay, later first Earl of Balcarres, and, secondly, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll. Jean married, first, John Sinclair, Master of Berriedale, and secondly, Alexander Sutherland, first Lord Duffus.
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