Murdo Mackenzie (died 1590) was a son of Roderick (Rory) Mackenzie,James Balfour Paul & John Maitland Thomson, Register Great Seal of Scotland: 1513-1546 (Edinburgh, 1883), p. 445 no. 1987 and probably a nephew of John Mackenzie of Kintail.James Balfour Paul, Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. xxxvi. Rory Mackenzie, a nephew of Thomas Fraser, 2nd Lord Lovat,William Mackay, Fraser Chronicles (Edinburgh, 1905), p. 125. who died in 1533, owned nearby farms or townships at Comrie,MHG24725 - Township - Comrie Scatnell, and "Acheleis", and the mill at Contin.James Balfour Paul & John Maitland Thomson, Register Great Seal of Scotland: 1513-1546 (Edinburgh, 1883), p. 159 no. 731 His mother is said to have been a daughter of Duncan McWilliam Dow vic Leod.Genealogy of the Mackenzies preceding 1661 (Dingwall, 1843), p. 14.
