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Balmanno Ancestors in the North-East of Scotland
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My connection to the Balmanno family in Aberdeen is through my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Ingram McKenzie
(1863-1929).
She was the illegitimate daughter of John Ingram (or King) and Eliza Logan, but was adopted by the family
of James McLaren McKenzie and Elizabeth Logan Bonney.The McKenzies were related to the
Balmanno family through marriage. Robert Balmanno (c 1732-1820) was a merchant and farmer in Aberdeen, and owned the
estate now known in Aberdeen as Mannofield, where legend has it, the strawberries he grew there were a delicacy in the London market.
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The Balmanno family left Aberdeen for London in the 1820s, and son Robert emigrated to New York City,
where he and his wife Mary were both involved in the literary community. About 1830 he purchased a summer
home in Geneva, New York.
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