Thank you for your reply, and I did notice the note in your site that Benjamin, at the age of 90, was now too feeble to preach. My mother's family seemed to have the idea that he was actually in the pulpit when he died. Their mother, Nora, was Benjamin's granddaughter, also, through Ben's eldest ...

I have been reading your material with great interest. The page on Rev. Benjamin MacKenzie is of particular interest, as he is, on my mother's side, a direct ancestor. My mother was Margaret Doris Thorburn, daughter of Nora McLeod, daughter of Eliza MacKenzie, daughter of Benjamin MacKenzie. My ...