Elizabeth Murdoch was named after her auntie, her father's sister. She born on the 17th of November 1882 at Glenshalloch Place, Dalbeattie and died aged 78 in 1961 at Liverpool, she is buried in Allerton Cemetery. She liked to play the piano and had one in her dining room, as a little girl she would go with her father on his ships and sailed the world with him. She married John Thornton McKenzie on the 19th of September 1901 at Dalbeattie, she was aged 18 and John was 20, he took on the name of John T Murdoch McKenzie.

The wedding invitation, courtesy of Fiona Minton.

Capt. John Murdoch request the pleasure of ------Company at the Marriage of his Daughter, Liz to Mr John T McKenzie, on Thursday, 19th Sept; at Two o'clock 1901. An Early Reply will oblige. Glenshalloch, Dalbeattie

The following Information is from Jan Fisher, their Great Granddaughter.

John T McKenzie was born on the 13th of July 1881 in Linlithgowshire, Scotland. His parents are Christina Thornton and Daniel McKenzie and they were married in Linlithgowshire, in 1877.
John was a very tall man, stern and strict but lovely. The family moved to Liverpool, after 1903 and John joined the Liverpool Police Force and later became the chief inspector; living in the big police house with 17 rooms including a butler's pantry, at 118 Kingsley Road, Princes Park (Sefton Park) John was known as Mac and was a moderate use of pipe tobacco and a life-long teetotaller.

John was also for many years in charge of recruiting and instruction at the old police Station Training School at Everton Terrace and Serving Brother of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, for his loyal work in connection with the St. John Ambulance Association in Liverpool. The honour carries with it the insignia and diploma of the Royal Charter. Other honours he has gained are the King George V. Jubilee Medal, and the Liverpool Watch Committee's silver medal and bar for thirty years good service.

John retied in 1944 after 41 years service; and was pensioned on 30/11/1944. After he lost his wife he lived with his widow daughter Bella at 34 Hampstead Road, off Sheil Road, Liverpool. He died aged 87 on the 1st of Feb 1968 at Newsham Hospital, Liverpool.

The following is from Fiona Minton. When John T McKenzie was at work one day, a man turned up at the police house with a cut-throat razor open and dripping with blood, and only Elizabeth was there and she had to keep him talking and humour him until someone of the police force returned to the house. Apparently he had come to give himself up as he had murdered his wife!!!!! How scary is that?

Obituary

Old Mac of city Police dies at 87.

Ex- Chief Inspector John T McKenzie, who was popularly known as "Old Mac" by hundreds of Liverpool Policemen past and present, and who was for many years in charge of recruiting and instruction at the old police Training School at Everton Terrace died in Newsham Hospital Liverpool last night Feb 87.
A widower, Mr. McKenzie had been in hospital for only four days.
He lived with a married daughter at 34 Hampstead Road, off Sheil Road, Fairfield.
He was a native of Linlithgow, Scotland and joined Liverpool City Police in 1903, retiring in 1944.
He was responsible for the initial training of Mr Herbert Balmer, Liverpool's former Deputy Chief Constable, who at the beginning of The Balmer Story in the Echo referred to the stringent training organised by Mr McKenzie for all police recruits when Mr joined the police in ****

The following is courtesy off Jan Fisher.

John Thornton McKenzie and Elizabeth Murdoch had 12 children and went to church twice a day every Sunday with their family; the first service was at 9.30 AM.

(1) Donald McKenzie was born the 5th of Jan 1902 at Riverside, Port Street, Dalbeattie and was in the police force and had been involved in a riot around the dock area, Liverpool where he had been hit with a baton. This caused a swelling in the back of his neck; he died aged 28 on the 4th of March 1930 and was interred at Allerton Cemetery, Liverpool on the 7th of March 1930. He married Winifred Morgan in Liverpool in 1925 and they had two children Donald and Malcolm.

(2) John (Jack) Thornton Murdoch McKenzie was born the 13th April 1903 at Riverside, Port Street, Dalbeatie. He married Alice Maud Grainger at Liverpool on the 28th January 1927. Alice was born the 12th September1904 in Liverpool. John died on 6th October 1976 from heart failure and Alice died 16th July 1981 from a heart attack. They had three children: John Thornton McKenzie and James Thorley McKenzie who both died in infancy and Jean Elizabeth McKenzie. Jean Elizabeth was born on 24th June 1934 in Liverpool and married John Francis Pickett in 1955. They had two children Linda Frances Pickett born in 1956 and Pamela Anne Pickett born 1959.

(3) Kenneth Walker McKenzie was born the 1st of September 1904 at Toxeth Park, Liverpool and died aged 81 on the 18th of Dec 1985 at the royal hospital Wolverhampton from renal failure, carcinoma of the bladder; his ashes are scatted in the river Mersey. He married Evelyn Williams on the 29th of Nov 1923 at the registry office West Derby, Evelyn died the 1st of Nov 1985 at Newcross Hospital Wolverhamton from cerebrovascular accident and chest infection, they had four sons and two daughters. Their granddaughter is Jan Fisher.

(4) George McKenzie was born in Liverpool and died in 1983 at the Wirral, Liverpool. He Married Mabel and had three children, Barbara who died aged two from pneumonia and is buried at Anfield, Helen and Elizabeth.

(5) Alex McKenzie died in his 70's; his 1st wife was Annie and 2nd wife Florence.
He had three children Isabell (Bel) born in 1930's, Annie and Elizabeth (Betty) all born in Liverpool

(6) Isabella McKenzie was known as Bella and was born in 1905 in Liverpool and died aged 91 from old age. She lived at 34 Hampstead Road, off Sheil Road.
She married John Edmund Jack Haycocks in Liverpool in 1939 and he was born 1880.
Jack died about 1966 of general Peritonitis and they are both buried in Allerton Liverpool.
Jack and Isabella had no children between them but Isabella had a son James Donald McKenzie who was born on 28th July 1932 in Liverpool (father unknown to remaining family).
James married Dorothy in 1951 in Valley, Anglesey. Dorothy was born on 24th Mary 1925 in Holyhead and died on 4th June 2005 in Holyhead of a brain Haemorrhage. James died on 29th December 1997 in Liverpool of a pulmonary embolism. He is buried in Allerton. Dorothy and James divorced in 1964.
James and Dorothy had a son Donald John McKenzie who was born in Birkenhead on 14th October 1952. He married Irene Boyd on 20th December 1974 in Kells, Co. Antrim. Irene was born on 20th July 1952 in Ballymena. They have one son: Samuel John Paul born 2nd July 1980 in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim

(7) Christina McKenzie was born in 1908 in Liverpool and died on the 19th of Dec 2004 in Hull Yorkshire from old age. She married Bruce Dalziel in Liverpool in 1930 and he died in 1969 of a heart attack and is buried in Hull Yorkshire.
Christina met Laurence Higgins on a cruise and married him in January 1974? At Hull registry office and he also died before in February 1987 at 775 Holderness Road, Hull of cancer of the oesophagus.
The children of Christiana and Bruce are, Bruce who died age 11 in a fall from a train from Hull/Liverpool and is buried in family grave at Allerton and Kenneth who married Doreen and died in Hull from Thrombosis. They had three boys all born in Hull, Bruce, Mark and Peter.

(8) Margaret McKenzie was known as (Peggy) and was born in 1915 in Liverpool, she had her first child called Gordon McKenzie born in C. 1934 and he lives in Walton, Liverpool. Gordon was raised by his grandparents John T McKenzie/ Elizabeth Murdoch; he said about his grandmother, she was a lovely kind hearted lady. Margaret McKenzie married Henry Sumner and she died in the late 40's early 50's of gallstones.
They had two children, John born in 1942 and Donald.

(9) Neil Thornton McKenzie was born 26th of August 1916 and died on the 24th of Dec 1997 in Wolverhampton of Bronchopneumonia. He married Alice Kathleen Doherty on the 14th of March 1942. They had one son Graham Thornton Murdoch McKenzie and he was born in Liverpool on the 8th of August 1942, he married Marty Catherine Carville from Ireland on the 5th of August 1967 in Wolverhampton. They have two children, Julia Kathleen McKenzieB. 5/4/1968 at Wolverhampton and Neil Thornton McKenzie B. 30/4/1969 Wolverhampton

(10) Lily McKenzie was born 1900's and died aged 19 of TB in Liverpool.

(11) Agnes McKenzie was called Nancy by the family. She was born on the 8th of Feb 1918 in Liverpool and died from cancer in 1975 in Marford near Chester.
She married Eric Edger Browell at Seacombe Pres.Church in September 1940.
Eric died in February 2003 due to Parkinson's thrombosis heart disease. He is buried with his wife in Allerton Cemetry.
Their four children are (1) Gloria Ethel Browell born Oct 1941, she is married to Frank Jump and they have three children. (2) Carole Denise Browell was born 16th May 1944.(3) Christine Margaret Browell was born in November 1948 and had a hole in her heart, her lips and nails used to turn blue and she died from this and returned to God on the 19th April 1951 and (4) Fiona Andrea Browell was born on the 5th October 1954 and is married to her 2nd husband Colin Minton. Fiona has one son called James.

(12) Janet Walker McKenzie (called Jenny by her parents now known as Jean) Was born on the 9th of September 1919 in Liverpool, her doctor told her to give up smoking because of her heart and she has not had one for seven years now. Jean married Guam Abbas in 1940 and they lived at Belmont Drive, Liverpool. Ghulam was born 1913 in Pakistan and was a Muslim, he worked as an eye Doctor and died in Liverpool in 1990 of Parkinson's and is buried in West Derby Cemetery. He never smoked or drank.
Their children are Nareena B 25/9/41 (widow) Zareena Elizabeth B 29/12/1947. Amin B. 14/5/1950 and Parveen B. 20/5/1958.

Jean looks great for her age and lives with her daughter Nareena in Kirby, Liverpool. She said she had a very happy childhood, and when coming home from school she would have her dinner and then her father would coach her and her siblings with their homework. She also said her aunt Isabella Murdoch from U.S.A. would send parcels every now and then of new clothes for her and her sister Nancy and Isabella came to Liverpool once with her husband for a visit and wanted Jean to go back with them to live, but Jeans mum wouldn't allow it.

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