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Emma was born in 1845 and Alexander in 1838, she married Alexander in 1867.
Alexander's parents were William Henry and Helen Hawkins.
Emma and Alexander had been romantically involved since she was sixteen.
In a letter to Lindsay Thompson, Emma's guardian and brother-in-law wrote to her brother Charles : - "Emma had treated Mackenzie shamefully, and that he hoped that they had had enough courting to their hearts content".
Lindsay later complained he was tricked into taking on the guardianship.
The coupe's children were - Alexander Barton 1868, Emmeline Mai 1869, Edward Byron 1871, Amy Mabel 1873, Muriel Lilian 1875, Mervyn Kenneth 1877, Norman Hawkins 1879, and Jessie N 1883.
Amy Mabel Mackenzie married Edwin Nixon in 1905, (Many years later to become Sir Edwin V. Nixon CMG).
Nixon was a prominent Melbourne accountant who founded a firm that eventually became merged into Arthur Young and, eventually, became Ernst & Young.
The accountant to T. Parnell's estate was W K Mackenzie until about 1864, also an agent acting for Thomas in 1863 was R J Mackenzie.