Hugh Munro

Notes:

Hugh was a writer to the Signet.

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - L/40

"Mr David Munro Minister of Kiltearne and Tayne married Florence daughter to Andrew Munro of Daan tutor of Fowlis by whom he had Mr Donald Robert John and Hugh and severall daughters."

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - L/41

"All his children viz. Mr Donald Robert John and Mr Hugh Writer to the Signet dyed unmarried."

"Hugh WS d Feb 1672"

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Notes:

David was minister of Kiltearn and JP at Inverness in 1634. He also served as minister at Tain. He had a charter of Killichoan.

David and Florence also had several daughters.

David studied for the Church at St Andrews University, where he obtained his M.A. degree on the 21 Jul 1621. He was licensed and appointed minister of Tarbat in 1628, but was soon transferred to the parish of Kiltearn.

There is a sasine dated 12 Nov 1628, in favour of Mr David Munro, described as minister of Kiltearn, in part of the lands of Tarlogie. Sasine follows the same day, and he has another in which he is similarly designated on 15 Jun 1630.

He was a member of the Generel Assemblies of 1638 and 1639, but was deposed by by the Presbytery of Dingwall in 1648, his deposition being confirmed by the Supreme Court of the Church in Jul 1649. The cause of this action was probably his compliance in Montrose's rebellion.

He appears to have settled in Tain because on 30 May 1649, there is a sasine on a charter by Thomas Ross of Priesthill, with consent of David Munro, minister of Tain,...to Alexander Gray of Ospisdale, of the town and lands of Tarlogie.

References:

(1) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - L/36, L/40,
L/41, R/24

(2) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
302-303

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David married Florence Munro. Florence (daughter of Andrew Munro, of Daan and Christian Munro) was born est 1598; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

References:

(1) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - L/40, R/24

(2) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
485

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Notes:

Donald Munro of Tarlogie.

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - L/4

"George Munro of Miltown and Davochgartie married Fraser of Phopachies daughter by whom he had Andrew Donald of Tarlogie..."

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - L/36

"Donald of Tarlogie married first Janet daughter to Donald Ross of Neonikill by whom he had George and Hugh next he married Denoon of /illegible/ daughter by her he had Mr David."

"Donald of Tarlogie d Jan 1612; relict Janet Denune was mother of David min of Kiltearn."

Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie -Inverness (1898) - p.
302-303

The Munros of Tarlogie

I. Donald Munro, first of this family, was the second son of George Monro, IV. of Milntown. He married, first, Christian, daughter of Donald Ross of Nonikiln, with issue--

1. George, his heir and suecessor...

Donald married, secondly, Janet, daughter of John Denoon, V. of Cadboll, with issue--...

Donald was succeeded by his eldest son, II. George Monro,...

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Donald married Janet Denoon. Janet was born about 1556; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - L/36

...next he married Denoon of /illegible/ daughter by her he had Mr David."

"Donald of Tarlogie d Jan 1612; relict Janet Denune was mother of David min of Kiltearn."

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Notes:

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[Andrew Munro] «i»Fifth son of Robert mor Munro XV of Foulis, by second wife Catherine Ross; had charter of lands of Daan from brother Hector Munro of Foulis in August, 1601, appointed tutor of Foulis 1603 to nephew Robert, on record as such January-April, 1607; died 17 September, 1607, having married Christian Munro (she marrying secondly Gilbert Gray of Skibo), with issue-John (Col. of Lemlair), Florence (married Rev. David Munro), Janet (married Col. Alexander Ross 2ndly Rev. David Ross), and Annabella (married 1628 Alexander Maclean of Dochgarroch), Another son said to be ancestor of President James Monroe but authenticity lacking. Said to be in possession of Lemlair some years before his death.

Munro Tree R/24; Mackenzie 56, 484-5, Writs 136, 138, 144, 146, 201; C. Fraser MackIntosh "Antiquarian Notes" ii dr Annabella 47, Edinburgh Testaments (16 March, 1609) Chron. Acc. 29 (wife); P. Gray "Skibo" 29 (wife), Register of the Privy Council of Scotland (addenda) xiv 505; vii 291,603; Note of ancestry by Mrs. J.A. Rusk, Missouri 1946 Letter to RWM from Mrs. de Volt 1968; New Statistical Account Ross and Cromarty p 447 (for 1601); Cromarty MSS (Daan) bundle 2/1549; MacGill "Old Rosshire 1898"-dr Janet.«/i»

(R. W. Munro's genealogy notes)
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Andrew inherited the lands of Daan in the Edderton Parish when his brother, John died without a male heir. He later became Andrew of Limlair.

Andrew's brother, Hector Munro of Fowlis, granted him the lands of Daan in a charter dated Aug 1601. These lands had been held by their brother, John, who died without a male heir. There is recorded on 24 Jul 1607, a sasine on a charter by Andrew Munro of Meikle Davauch, with consent of Hector Munro of Foulis in favor of Beatrix Ross, the widow of Andrew's brother, John.

In 1603, Andrew was appointed Tutor to his nephew, Robert of Fowlis for the remainder of that chief's minority. During the short period that Andrew occupied that responsible trust, he is said to have managed the estate very successfully and much to the advantage of the young Baron when he became of age and able to take legal charge of his own affairs.

Andrew acquired the lands of Limlair a few years before his death. It is not known whether he purchased them or if they were given to him by his nephew for his judicious management while acting as Tutor of Foulis.

On 7 Sep 1607, Andrew had a charter from George Ross of Balnagowan for the lands of Pitmadowie.

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References:

(1) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
56, 65, 71-72, 385, 484-485

(2) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - M/42, R, R/23,
R/24, & p. iv

(3) "The Highlander" - Nov/Dec 86 - p.71

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Andrew married Christian Munro. Christian (daughter of Rev. William Munro and Isabel Thornton) was born about 1571; died in in Of, Balblair, Creich, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After her husband's death, Christian received a charter of the lands of Balblair in the Barony of Creich.

References:

(1) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
385

(2) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - M/42, R/24

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Notes:

George Monro served as Chamberlain of Ross.

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - p. iii-iv, L/3, L/4
Clan Munro files - Stroud, Anna Margaret

Ref: "History of the Munros" by A. Mackenzie - p. 46, 274-277

References:

(1) Clan Munro files - Hall, Barry Earl - Ahnentafel Chart - dated 19 Aug 1997
- p. 2

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Died:
Milntown Castle

George married Janet Fraser, of Phopachy. Janet (daughter of James Fraser) was born about 1522; died in 1592. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - L/4

"George Munro of Miltown and Davochgartie married Fraser of Phopachies daughter by whom he had Andrew Donald of Tarlogie and Mr. George and 3 daughters Janet Lady Pulrossie 2 Lady Culbockie and the 3d. Lady Achnacloich..."

"His [George Munro] wife was Janet Fraser..."

Ref: "History of the Munros" by A. Mackenzie - p. 276

He married Janet, daughter of James Fraser, I. of Phopachy, whose uncle, John Fraser, was Bishop of Ross from 1485, until his death on the 5th of February, 1507. Her brothers, the Rev. Paul Fraser and the Rev. Almond Fraser, were settled in Rosskeen and Alness respectively, while her brother, John Fraser, progenitor of Dunballoch, was Chamberlain, alter oculus, for their uncle, the Bishop, at Nigg, another brother, Robert, being Chamberlain to the Abbot of Fearn. by her George Munro had issue--

References:

(1) Clan Munro files - Hall, Barry Earl - Ahnentafel Chart - dated 19 Aug 1997
- p. 2

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Notes:

Robert was served heir to his father before Alexander Baillie, Sheriff-Depute of Inverness on 11 Jan 1548. He was still a minor and so was placed under the tutorship of his uncle, Hugh Munro of Contullich.

Robert got into a great deal of trouble because his uncle and tutor, Hugh Munro killed two tenants in Little Boath, belonging to the Laird of Balnagowan. The problem was resolved after great expense to Robert including the loss of the lands of Kiltearn.

Robert came to be known as Robert Mor because of his stature. His estates were erected into a barony by 1553. He was a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots.

He gave to Neil Beaton, a heritable tack of the lands of Culnaskea for serving as surgeon or doctor to his family.

In 1552, he sold to Margaret Ogilvie, widow of William Mackintosh of Mackintosh, the lands of Wester Foulis in liferent, but later regained these lands by marrying Margaret.

In 1560, he regained the lands of Kiltearn by obtaining them from Quinten Monypenny, General-Vicar and Dean of Ross. The charter was registered and and confirmed on 3 Sep 1584. In the same year, he acquired from the Bishops of Ross, the lands of Limlair, Pellaig, Wester Glens, and Mukle Boitt (or Boath).

He attended the Reformation Parliament in Edinburgh on 1 Aug 1560 where he voted for the overthrow of the Catholic Church and for acceptance for the Scottish Confession of Faith. He was among the barons assembled on 24 Nov 1572 in Edinburgh to choose a Regent when the Convention of Estates appointed Morton. In the Edinburgh Parliament of 30 Nov 1581, he is listed as "Robert Monro of Fowlis, bailie and chamberlane of Ros, one of the Justices in that part." He had been appointed to that position by the seventh Parliament of King James VI, held at Edinburgh on 24 Feb 1581, when he was described as "His Majesty's principal bailie of the Earldom of Ross and Lordship of Ardmeanach."

In Robert's time, the Munro Clan was considered by the Crown, of considerable importance, and among the most loyal of the northern clans. When Queen Mary arrived at Inverness on 11 Sep 1562, and found the castle shut against her by the governor, Captain Alexander Gordon, the Munros, under Robert Mor, their Chief, were among those loyal subjects who came to her assistance.

By a charter dated at Scone on 11 Jul 1565, Robert obtained from Sir James Spence, Chaplain of St. Lawrence, and Sir Alexander Douglas, Chaplain of St. Mary, the lands of Mukle and Little Clynes.

On 23 Jun 1567, he served as a member of the jury when John, Earl of Sutherland was served heir to his grandmother, Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland.

At Edinburgh, on 10 Apr 1569, he and many others signed a bond of allegiance to King James VI.

On 22 Nov 1569, Robert was appointed by the Lord Regent, as a Justice-Depute in the diocese of Caithness for the trial of certain persons.

In 1570 a serious quarrel broke out between the Munros and the Mackenzies. Leslie, the celebrated Bishop of Ross who had been secretary to Queen Mary, dreading the effect of public feeling against prelacy in the north and against himself personally made over to his cousin, Leslie of Balquhain, his rights and titles to the Chanonry of Ross, together with the Castle lands, in order to divest them of the character of church property and so save them to his family. But in spite of this grant, the Regent Murray gave the custody of the Castle to Andrew Munro of Milntown, a rigid Presbyterian, who was in high favor with Murray.

The Mackenzies were by no means pleased at seeing the Munros occupying the stronghold. They purchased Leslie's right to the castle and demanded delivery. The Munros at once refused. Mackenzie of Kintail raised his vassals and, joined by a detachment of the Mackintoshes, garrisoned the steeple of the Cathedral Church and laid siege to Irvine's Tower and the Palace.

The Munros held out for three years, but one day the garrison becoming short of provisions, they attempted a sortie to the Ness of Fortrose, where there was at the time a salmon stell, the contents of which they attempted to secure. They were immediately discovered and followed by the Mackenzies under Iain Dubh Mac Ruairidh Mhic Alastair. The Munros were ambushed and twenty-six of them were killed. The remaining defenders of the castle immediately capitulated, and it was taken possession of by the Mackenzies. Later it was confirmed to the Baron of Kintail by King James VI.

In 1572, as a reward for his faithful services to the Crown, Robert obtained from King James VI a grant of the tack of all the customs due as royalties from the town and Sheriffdom of Inverness, in the counties of Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness. This was registered in a charter under the Privy Seal dated at Edinburgh on 5 Jan 1572.

He was one of the members of a Commission appointed to act as Sheriffs of Inverness for serving Alexander Earl of Sutherland heir to his father Earl John, on 30 May 1573. But Alexander petitioned to be served heir in Aberdeen, as he could not get a jury together to sit at Inverness because there was a deadly feud in progress among the local barons including Colin Mackenzie of Kintail, Lachlan Mackintosh of Mackintosh, and Robert Munro of Foulis.

On 9 Jan 1578, Robert appeared as one of the arbitrators for David Dunbar, portioner of Kinsterrie, concerning the slaughter of two of Dunbar's servants by the tenants or followers of Cawdor.

In 1578, the Lord Regent and Privy Council learned that the Earl of Argyll intended to invade the territories of Donald MacAngus of Glengarry. On 19 Feb 1577-78, their Lordships issued orders to many Highland Chiefs, including Robert Munro of Foulis, to be ready with their whole forces to come the the aid and defense of Donald MacAngus of Glengarry.

Robert obtained various lands in Inverness and Ross by charter dated 11 Jan 1583 under the Great Seal, and later that year, on 10 May 1583, he disponed to his son, George of Obsdale, the lands of Limlare, Pelaig, Wester Glens, and Bothmoir.

In about 1585, a dispute arose between Neil Macleod and Donald Bane Macleod regarding the succession to Assynt. The succession was ultimately awarded to Neil, but Donald Bane complained to Foulis, in whose family he had been brought up. Robert's influence was able to obtain for Donald Bane a part of the lands of Assynt.

On 30 Nov 1586, Robert was denounced by the Privy Council, along with most of the other Highland Chiefs, on the complaint of the United Burghs of Scotland, for obstructing the fisheries in the northern parts and for making extortionate exactions from the fishermen.

On 6 May 1588, King James VI, issued an order of special protection granted to the Earl of Sutherland and his Countess. In it, the King ordered Robert Munro of Foulis and many other local leaders to be ready to raise their followers in arms to assist the Earl of Sutherland if needed.

On 20 Jul 1588, Robert was appointed by the King to be collector of a tax in Inverness-shire, which was to be used for the repair of Edinburgh Castle.

Robert was one of the first of the Highland Chiefs to renounce the Roman Catholic form of religion and to embrace the doctrines of the Reformation. In this decision, he exercised great influence in the county of Ross. He voted in the Parliament of Aug 1560, for the overthrow of the Popish Church, and for the adoption of the Scottish Confession of Faith. The first spot in Ross-shire where the reformed religion is said to have been preached is at Waterloo, midway between Foulis and Dingwall. The preacher is said to have been the Rev. Donald Munro, the well-known High Dean of the Isles.

Robert appears to have profited considerably by the long leases of church lands and forfeitures arising from the changed condition of affairs caused by the Reformation. He is said to have been a wise and good man, and the name "Mor," or great, was not altogether inapplicable to him.

He died at Foulis Castle on 4 Nov 1588 at about the age of 60. By his own direction, his body was buried in the churchyard of Kiltearn, which has ever since continued to be the burying place of the Chiefs of the family. He was the first who made this change from the ancient custom of his ancestors, who had always been interred at the Chanonry of Ross. It is probable that this baron, who was the the first professing Protestant of the family of Foulis, desired by this change, to mark the complete severance of all connection with the Church of Rome and her consecrated establishments.

Error alert: According to the dates in references, Robert remarried about a year before his first wife died. It's possible that his first marriage ended in divorce, but it is more likely that one or more dates in the reference are incorrect.

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Robert married Catherine Ross, of Balnagown on 22 Nov 1563. Catherine (daughter of Ross, Laird of Balnagown) was born about 1530; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - R, S

Robert Moir Munro Baron of Fowlis married Margaret daughter to Ogilvie of Finlater by whom he had 2 sons and 3 daughters 2d he married Catherin daughter to Alexander Ross of Balnagown and had 3 sons 4 daughters.

...by the second [marriage, he had] another 3 sons, George R/3, John R/23, Andrew R/24; for drs see R/39.

Hector [was]...associated with the King's Advocate in the unsuccessful prosecution of his stepmother [Catherine Ross] for witchcraft...

Ref: "History of the Munros" by A. Mackenzie - p. 41, 56-58, 63-64, 66-67, 71

In 1544 Robert entered into a bond of manrent and friendship--according to the custom of the period in Scotland--with Alexander Ross, IX. of Balnagown (father of Robert's eldest son's second wife)...

Robert married, secondly, Catherine, eldest daughter of Alexander Ross, IX. of Balnagowan, by his first wife, Janet Sinclair, daughter of John, fifth Earl of Caithness, with issue--three sons and four daughters.

His second wife, "Katherine Ross, Lady Fowlis," as she is designated in the "Dittay," survived Baron Robert for several years. She was implicated, with her stepson, Hector the seventeenth Baron, in an infamous attempt at poisoning through sorcery and incantation. Though her action in the matter is ignored in the family annals, it is here given as related in the Justiciary Records, printed in Pitcairn's Criminal Trials in Scotland, vol. i., part ii., pages 191-202. The trial is also noticed in the preface to Law's Memorials, though in less detail, and with certain errors in some of the particulars given.

The purpose of the poisoning and "witchcraft," and of the compact into which the Lady of Fowlis entered with a crew of miscreants in 1576 and 1577, was to remove Marjory Campbell, the young wife of her brother, George Ross, X. of Balnagowan, and daughter of Sir John Campbell, IX. of Cawdor, that he might marry the wife of young Fowlis, and to accomplish this effectually it was necessary to destroy her stepson Robert Munro, then "apparand of Fowlis," eldest son and heir of Robert Mor.

One of the witches was a Tain woman named Marjory Macallister, nicknamed Loskie Loutart, and one of the wizards involved with Loskie in the charge of witchcraft and attempted murder by poisoning was William Macgillivray, nicknamed Damh, also a native of Tain. Marjory Macallister is said to have made for the Lady Fowlis an image of clay, to be set up and shot at with elf arrows, the object being to cause the person whom the image represented (Robert XVI. of Fowlis), to pine away and die. William Macgillivray sold to the Lady a "box of witchcraft," that is of poison, for the smae end, for which he was sentenced to be burnt. Loskie was not similarly dealt with, probably because a distinction was made between witchcraft that took the effective form of administrating poison and that which confined itself to the fanciful method of shooting at a clay image.

Several of the other instruments, "reputed witches," were convicted at a Justice Court held "within the Cathedral Kirk of Roiss," on the 28th of November, 1577, and sentenced to be "brint for the samin." They died at the stake, confessing the whole plot and implicating their employer in all their horrible practices. Lady Fowlis was not tried until the 22nd of July, 1590, being then "dilatit of certain crymes of witchcraft," at the instance of the King's Advocate, David Macgill of Cranston-Riddell, and Hector Munro of Fowlis. The verdict of the Assize, however, pronounced her "to be innocent, and quit of the haill poynts of the dittay," and she was acquitted accordingly.

The private prosecutor was Hector Munro, now of Fowlis, another stepson, who in a few hours was to change places with her as the accused at the same bar of Justice for similar crimes; his "assize," or jury being chiefly composed of Munros and Rosses, burgesses of Tain and Dingwall, and dependents of the families of Ross and Munro.

On the 4th of June, 1589, Hector appears in a curious position in connection with a prosecution for witchcraft against several women, and an abridgement of the document, as recorded in the records of the Privy Council, is of sufficient interest to justify a place here. It is the complaint of Katherine Ross, relict of Robert Munro of Fowlis; Margaret Sutherland, spouse of Neil Munro, in Swordale; Margaret Ross, spouse of John Neil Macdonald Roy, in Coull; and Margaret Mowat, as follows:--Mr Hector Munro now of Fowlis, son-in-law of the said Katherine Ross, "seeking all ways and means to possess himself in certain her tierce and conjunct fee lands of the Barony of Fowlis, and to dispossess her therefrom," had first "persued certain of her tennants and servants by way of deed for their bodily harm and slaughter," and then, "finding that he could not prevail that way, neither by sundry other indirect means sought by him, had at last, "upon sinister and wrong information and importunate suit, purchased a commission of the same to His Majesty, and to Colin Mackenzie of Kintail, Rory Mackenzie, his brother, John Mackenzie of Gairloch, Alexander Bain of Tulloch, Angus Mackintosh of Termitt, James Glas of Gask, William Cuthbert, in Inverness, and some others specially mentioned therein, for apprehending of the siad Margaret Sutherland, Bessy Innes, Margaret Ross, and Margaret Mowat, and sundry others, and putting them to the knowledge of an assize for witchcraft and other forged and feinted crimes alleged to be committed by them." Further, "the said persons, by virtue of the same commission, intended to proceed against them most partially and wilfully, and therby to drive the said complainers to that strait that either they shall satisfy his unreasonable desire, or then to loose their lives, with the sober portion of goods made by them for the sustenance of themselves and their poor bairns; howbeit it be of verity that they are honest women of repute and holding these many years bygone, spotted at no time with any such ungodly practices, neither any ways having committed any offence, but by all their actions behaved themselves as discreetly and honestly as none justly could or can have occasion of complaint--they being ever ready, like they are yet, to underlie the law for all crimes that can be laid to their charge," and having to that effect, "presently found caution for their compearance before the justice and his deputes, or any judge unsuspected, upon fifteen days' warning." Their prayer, accordingly, is that the said commission be discharged. Mr Hector Munro, appearing for himself and his collegues, and the complainers by Alexander Morrison, their procurator, the Lords ordain Mr Hector and the other commissioners to desist from proceeding against the women, and remit their trial to be taken before the Justice-General or his deputes in the next justice court appointed to be held after His Magesty's repairing to the north parts of this realm in the month of July next," at which time, if His Majesty shall not repair thither, or being repaired shall not before this returning cause the same trial to be taken, "in that case commission shall be given to Thomas Fraser of Knockys, tutor of Lovat, John Urquhart of Cadboll, tutor of Cormarty, and Alexander Bayne of Tulloch, or any two of them to administer justice conform to the laws of the realm." (Mackenzie's History of the Mackenzies, second edition, pp. 170-172.)

Hector Munro and Lachlan Mackintosh of Mackintosh enter into a bond of caution on the 1st of August, 1589, that they will produce before the King's Justice in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh on the 28th of October following the King's letters executed against such persons as are appointed to be upon the trial and assize of Kathering Ross, widow of the late Robert Munro of Fowlis, and also that the said Lachlan and Hector "shall insist in pursuit of her to the uttermost upon the same day for such crimes whereof she is delait and accused without shift, excuse, or delay." Hector also gives bond, on the 1st August, that he--who is appointed to intromit with the rents of the said Catherine till she be tried of the crimes laid to her charge--shall pay to her forty shillings daily out of his intromissions for her expenses in ward, whether in any of the King's castles, or elsewhere, till the said trial be taken, beginning on the 2nd of August instant; and further, that the said Hector shall account to her, in case she may be found innocent, for any sums of money, maills, or duties, to be intromitted by him after the date of the bond, over and above the daily sums provided therin to be paid by him.

On the 5th of November following John Campbell of Cawdor becomes cautioner in 2000 pounds that Hector will not harm Katherine Ross, Lady Fowlis, her tenants, or servants.

On the 3rd of August, 1598, a bond is subscribed at Tain, and registered in Edinburgh on the 14th of the same month, by Hector Munro, apparent of Assint; Hugh Ross, apparent of Muldearg; and three others, for George Sinclair of Mey, that he will not molest Katherine Ross, Lady of Fowlis, William Gordon of Brodland, her spouse; or William Ross in Balnacnycht. From this it appears that she married again, after the death of her husband, Robert Munro, who died on the 4th of November, 1588.

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«i»There are many stories in Fraser's history of the clan and, of course, after the Battle of Worcester the line is continued in his compilation. The most interesting of these stories has to do with Robert Mor Munro who married about 1563, as a second wife, Katherine Ross, daughter of the Laird of Balnagown. She bore him six children, but as Fraser puts it, "she was an unchancy mate for a pious man. Many of her contemporaries believed her to be a murderess, a poisoner, and an employer of witches and sorcerers. Not only this, but she was said to have introduced one of her stepsons, Hector Munro--who later became Chief--to similar sinister practices. Shortly after her husband's death in 1588, both she and Hector Munro stood their separate trials for witchcraft and attempted murder" (p. 22). The result was that both were acquitted on every point, "in apparent disregard of the evidence" (ibid.). The crimes with which Katherine was charged are said to have been committed in 1566 and 1567. The witches and warlocks involved were named and in 1567 two of them were caught, tried, and burned at the stake.«/i»

(The Monroe Book - by J. S. Guilford)
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William followed the example of his uncle, the Archdeacon, and joined the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

In various documents he is called "Mr. William, Parson of Cullicudden" and "William Monro, Hucheonson," or Hugh's son. He served as Reader at Cullicudden 1574-1578 with a stipend of 20 merks and the kirklands of that parish. He was also Reader at Rosskeen and Nonikiln, with 20 merks of stipend.

The position of Reader was then a new office, and consisted only in reading the Scroptures without the power of administering the Sacraments. The position was abolished by the General Assembly of 1581.

William was presented to the parsonage of Cullicudden by King James VI, on 1 Dec 1581, on the death of his predecessor, Rev. David Dunbar. He continued in that office until 1607 or 1614. He was also a Canon in the Cathedral of Ross.

Cullicudden and the ancient parish of Kirkmichael were later joined to form the parish of Resolis.

William died before 1614.

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The following is a transcription of RW Munro's genealogy notes:

[Alexander Munro] «i»Third son of Reverend William Munro, Cullicudden (of Ferrytown of Obsdale branch) & Isabel Thornton; (died unmarried, according to Mackenzie).

Munro tree M/42. Mackenzie 385; Chronical Account. 29; Fasti vii 21.
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References:

(1) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - M/42

(2) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
383, 385

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

Birth:
Estimate: This birth date is an estimate based on the birth dates of nearest relatives or contemporaries, or based on other clues such as christening date, marriage date, birth order, etc.

William married Isabel Thornton. Isabel was born about 1544; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Isobel was the sister of David Thorntown of Balgony.

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The following is a transcription of RW Munro's genealogy notes:

[Alexander Munro] «i»Third son of Reverend William Munro, Cullicudden (of Ferrytown of Obsdale branch) & Isabel Thornton; (died unmarried, according to Mackenzie).

Munro tree M/42. Mackenzie 385; Chronical Account. 29; Fasti vii 21.
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References:

(1) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - M/42

(2) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
383

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

Birth:
Estimate: This birth date is an estimate based on the birth dates of nearest relatives or contemporaries, or based on other clues such as christening date, marriage date, birth order, etc.