(Numbers relate to notices in The London Gazette)

A) Lt Colonel Lewis MacKenzie d 1803

The MacLeod's Highlanders https://electricscotland.com/hiStory/scotreg/macleod/1777.htm were raised from an independent Highland regiment by John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod, son of the Earl of Cromartie, in 1777 as the 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot (MacLeod's Highlanders). Lord MacLeod was the first commander of the regiment, adopting the “Macleod of Harris tartan” that was originally a Mackenzie tartan.

The 1st battalion served in the East India Campaign. Between 1778 and 1786, the 1st/73rd Highlanders saw service in Gambia in West Africa and in the Mysore War in India where the battalion was completely destroyed during the Battle of Conjeveram on 10 September 1780.

A 2nd Battalion was raised in 1778, serving from 1780 in Gibraltar where they took part in the siege of the fortress before disbanding in 1786 after they were absorbed into the 1st Battalion in 1783.

12113 26 Aug 1780 to be Lieutenant , volunteer Lewis MacKenzie of 73^rd Foot.

In 1786 the regiment was redesignated as the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (MacLeod's Highlanders). .

13444 24 July 1792 52^nd Regiment, Lieutenant Lewis MacKenzie from 71^st Regiment to be Captain Lieutenant. Vice Zouch promoted in the 71^st Regiment.

52^nd Regiment (Oxfordshire) East Indies 1783-1793

15063 22 Sept 1798 81^st Regiment, Capt Lewis MacKenzie from 52^nd Foot to be Major by purchase. Vice Baynes who retires.

81^st Regiment (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) was at the Cape from 1797-1802

15577 19 Apr 1802 81^st Regiment, Major Lewis MacKenzie to be Lt Colonel by purchase. Vice Parry who retires.

Half pay 23 July 1803

Died from falling off a horse in St Hellier, Jersey on 11 July 1803. ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/bmd_death/?name=Lewis_MacKenzie&death=1803_Jersey

B) Capt Lewis MacKenzie b 1767 – d 1811

Ensign Lewis MacKenzie is listed in 'A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines' p312 https://books.google.fr/books?id=YbagAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA312&lpg=PA312&dq=%22Ensign+Lewis+MacKenzie%22&source=bl&ots=Uf-yHtXMO9&sig=vpEy0CivXVfnYZ-x7NbYxnIzdfk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjK143YoaffAhW2gM4BHcFHDq4Q6AEwAHoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Ensign%20Lewis%20MacKenzie%22&f=false , which shows that he was with the 2^nd Battalion 78th of Foot in 1795. The 2^nd Battalion was formed by Colonel Francis Humberstone MacKenzie of Seaforth.

It may be significant that Ensign Lewis MacKenzie was stood down with full pay in 1795 at the same time as Lt Col John McK of Gairloch., who late became Major General John MacKenzie (known as Fighting Jack)

Lewis MacKenzie married Mary Finnie at Fort George in 1795

15 March 1800 71^st Regiment, Ensign Lewis MacKenzie to be Lieutenant by purchase. Vice Power who retires.

27 April 1800 birth Elizabeth MacKenzie at Stirling

71^st (Highland) Regiment of Foot Capetown 1806

The page is directly from the book and there is no other information for Lewis Mckenzies...it was ''British Residents at the Cape_ 1795-1819”.

The “Waterloo diary” January 20^th 1806 has ................

Went into cantonments at Wynberg (7 miles from Cape Town and same distance from Simons Bay) in a number of huts erected by the Dutch. The Dutch flag still hoisted on the ramparts; the fine French frigate ‘La Volontaire,' deceived by it, entered Table Bay and cast anchor alongside the Admiral's ship before she perceived her mistake. On board of her we found Lieutenant Iverard and about forty men of the 54th British Regiment, whom she captured in the Bay of Biscay; she was on her passage from Europe to the Island of Ceylon. The Hottentot Corps formed about this time, called the Cape Regiment, and the Command given to Major Graham of the 93rd. We sent them Lieutenant Lewis M'Kenzie and Ensigns Bell and Gair. A German regiment (4) in the service of the Dutch, who were made prisoners, volunteered into the British service; we got eighty of them.

http://www.waterloodiary.net/william_gavin's_diary_01.html

Elsewhere, Gair is recorded as one of Lewis’ executors. I have been unable to establish the location of his Will.

A letter in the South-Africa-Immigrants-British forum, shows where Lewis Mackenzie was buried and when he died in South Africa...

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH/2003-08/1060416919

'Round about 1896 two old cemeteries in Cape Town were closed down due to the expansion of Cape Town. The one was opened in 1755 in the days of the Dutch East India Company and the other in the 1820's for members of the Anglican Church. Round about 1921 the cemeteries were entirely demolished, the bones reinterred at Woltemade Cemetery. In both cemeteries many Anglo-Indians were buried, a number were military officers and Civil Servants. This was in the days before the opening of the Suez Canal when vessels on their way from or to India touched the Cape. In 1907 the C. Graham BOTHA M.A., L.L.D. made notes of some of the inscriptions which are given below

MACKENZIE, Lewis, Capt. d. 23 Nov 1811, aged 44. (b 1767) Capt Cape Regiment, b. Isle of Lewis, Rosshire '

The list of half pays shows in Aug 5 1812, the year after Lewis died, a half pay of 400 pounds to Mary Mackenzie wife of Lewis and their orphan daughter.

C) Capt Lewis MacKenzie of Scatwell b 1778 – d 1807

13525 7 May 1793 72^nd Regiment, Ensign Lewis MacKenzie to be Lieutenant. Vice Stuart.

15124 13 Apr 1799 72^nd Regiment, Lt Lewis MacKenzie to Captain by purchase. Vice Ruding who retires.

Army List 1806 72^nd Highland Regiment, Captain Lewis MacKenzie 12 Apr 1799

72nd Regiment joined with 78^th to become 1^st & 2^nd battalions of Seaforth Highlanders. 1781-1798 East Indies.

1805 Involved in capture of the Cape of Good Hope with 71^st & 93^rd Regiments

1806 Capetown Garrison at Wineberg

1814 Return to Capetown

1815 Calcutta

From the History of the MacKenzies of Scatwell:

‘Lewis, Colonel George's eldest son, who was born in 1778, was appointed an Ensign in his father's (72^nd) regiment in 1783, he being then at the mature age of 5. He was gazetted a Lieutenant in 1792, aged 14, and Captain in 1799, aged 21. I do not know when or where he joined the 72nd; the regiment went in 1795 to Ceylon and after the conquest of that island from the Dutch, returned to India in 1797. Next year it came home, was quartered at Perth and afterwards in Ireland. In 1805 it went with Sir David Baird's second expedition to the Cape of Good Hope when light Companies of Highlanders drove the Dutch from the contiguous hills and did grand service in the victory over the Dutch in the Blue Mountains and was present at the surrender of Cape Town in January, 1806. The 72nd remained at the Cape and Lewis, being at the time second senior Captain, died there in May 1807. He had married in 1801 Jane Logan, an Ayrshire lady, daughter of William Logan of Camlarg.’

There were no Lewis McKenzies in the 1815 Army List, so they had either retired or died by then.

Louis MacKenzie of Dundonnell is reported to have been a Lieutenant in the 71st Regiment in 1791 and to have died in India without issue https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G004685.pdf