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Mackenzie Mackenzie
Mackenzie Mackenzie (1595-1630) of Kintail was the eldest daughter of the 4 children of Jean Anne Ross of Balnagowan and Kenneth Mackenzie, Lord Kintail. Mackenzie was documented as a survivor of domestic abuse.

Life
Mackenzie married Sir Mackay Mackay of Farr, Lord Reay (1591-1694) in August 1610, and together had six children - four sons and two daughters. However, her husband would come to be engaged in an affair with Marie Lindsay, sister of the 12th Earl of Crawford, which resulted in a son. Mackay would bring Lindsay back to his home at Durness, and reportedly drag the then pregnant Mackenzie from bed and confine her in a roofless outhouse. Mackenzie was reportedly only given bread and water, and ended up giving birth with only the help of a kitchen maid.

In January 1617, Mackenzie would request the Privy Council to pursue her husband for adultery and cruelty. This seemed to occur around the same time as the death of their first son Iye. The action was to disinherit the bastard of Mackay and Lindsay, and to ensure that Mackay could not take steps to legitimise him. Mackay was warded in Edinburgh's Tolbooth while Mackenzie took refuge with the Earl of Dunfermline, the grandfather of her niece Anna Mackenzie.

However, Mackenzie and her husband later reconciled, with Mackay paying the 2000 merk fine for adultery in 1620. It is unclear what happened to Lindsay, who was also a survivor of domestic abuse, but Mackay continued to be unfaithful even after Mackenzie's passing in Strathnaver at around 1630. Later, a woman named Rachel Winterfield would claim that Mackay had married her and fathered her son, although it was revealed that he had married a woman named Elizabeth Thomson soon after Mackenzie's death.