Duncan MacKenzie

Island story

Duncan MacKenzie is commemorated at R6-011 with the older Duncan and Hannah MacKenzie. His death registration records his death on Pictou Island on 2 March 1926, age seventy-five, names Duncan MacKenzie and Hannah MacKenzie as his parents, and describes him as a single carpenter. It records burial on Pictou Island on 4 March. The certificate reports a 10 December birthday without a year; the memorial records 1851–1926. The 1881 census includes a Duncan McKenzie, aged 30, in family 8 with the older Duncan, Hannah, Alex, Murdoch and Bella. This age is consistent with the memorial year, but the schedule does not state family relationships. In 1891, a Duncan aged 45 is explicitly recorded as Murdock McKenzie’s brother in family 20. That age conflicts with the 1851 memorial year; the 1891 man has not been securely identified with this Duncan. The conflicting census age is not used to replace his memorial birth year.