HISTORY OF THE MACKENZIE HOUSE
The Mackenzie House has been in the same family for three generations.   Many of the artists in the Kirkcudbright artist's colony in the early 20th century patronized what was then the Mackenzie Newsagent and Tobacconist shop at the top of St. Cuthbert Street. They were all well known to the Mackenzie family.

The Mackenzies, an old Kirkcudbright family, had prominent connections with the early shipbuilding industry in the town and with  the Kirkcudbright Lifeboat Service.  Ex-Provost William Mackenzie, grandfather of the current owner, purchased the property on the corner of St. Cuthbert Street and Castle Street  at the beginning of the twentieth century after retiring from the army.  He moved into the living accommodations with his wife and three daughters, and he ran the shop as a newsagent and tobacconist with his daughter Peggy, until the early 1950s.  As young girls, Peggy and her twin sister Nanny, were two of the local children that the renowned Scottish painter E. A. Hornel portrayed in his paintings.  Nanny Mackenzie later became a much loved and respected teacher at the Kirkcudbright Academy.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT AREA LINKS & HISTORY

OLD KIRKCUDBRIGHT
http://www.old-kirkcudbright.net/index

KIRKCUDBRIGHT TOWN WEBSITE
http://www.kirkcudbright.co.uk/

KIRKCUDBRIGHT ON UNDISCOVERED
SCOTLAND
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk
/areakirk/index.html

KIRKCUDBRIGHT ON WICKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkcudbright

BBC SOUTH SCOTLAND - KIRKCUDBRIGHT http://www.bbc.co.uk/southscotland/content/articles
/2008/07/31/ kirkcudbright_feature.shtml

MCCLELLAN'S CASTLE IN KIRKCUDBRIGHT
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/propertyresults/
propertyoverview.htm?PropID=PL_204

GARDENS TO VISIT NEAR KIRKCUDBRIGHT
http://www.britainsfinest.co.uk/gardens/search_results.
cfm /searchcounty/Dumfries%20%26%20Galloway