Inverewe Garden On Visit To Wester Ross In The North West Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Inverewe Garden, a botanical garden located just to the North of Poolewe in Wester Ross on ancestry, genealogy visit to the North West Scottish Highlands. The garden was created from barren land in 1862 by Osgood Mackenzie who was born on 13 May 1842, at the Chateau de Talhouet, near Quimperlé, in Morbihan, Brittany. His father was Sir Francis Mackenzie, 5th Baronet and 12th laird of Gairloch. The Mackenzies were a clan from the Northwest Highlands that had risen to prominence in the 15th century during the disintegration of the Lordship of the Isles. Mackenzie’s ancestor, Hector Roy Mackenzie, had acquired the lands of Gairloch towards the end of the 15th century. Mackenzie’s mother, Mary, was the daughter of Osgood Hanbury, of Holfield Grange, Essex. Mackenzie’s father died a year or so after he was born. He was educated at home, in the tradition of his family, and brought up to speak both English and Gaelic. In 1862, with the help of his mother he purchased the 12,000 acre estate of Inverewe and Kernsary. There he built a Scottish Baronial style mansion and set about creating a garden. On 26 June 1877, Mackenzie married Minna Amy, the daughter of Sir Thomas Edwards-Moss, 1st Baronet. Mackenzie died on 15 April 1922. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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