Robert Ferguson Carr-Harris

Notes:

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9
Oct 1996

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Birth:
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Family/Spouse: Isobel Willis. Isobel was born est 1865 in Bathurst, Gloucester Co., New Brunswick, Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9
Oct 1996

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Birth:
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Robert married Ellen Jane Fitton. Ellen (daughter of Robert Wiley Fitton, M.D. and Sarah Harriet Munro) was born on 26 Nov 1840 in New Carlisle, , Québec, Canada; was christened on 12 May 1844 in New Carlisle, Cox Twp, Quebec, St Andrew Anglic; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, James Donald

!St Andrew Anglican Church Records, New Carlisle, Quebec. BORN - Ellen Jane, daughter of Robert Wiley Fitton of New Carlisle, Esq. Registrar and Coroner for the county of Bonaventure, and of Sarah Harriet Munro, his wife, born November 26, 1840 and baptised May 12, 1844. R. W. Fitton and S.H. Fitton, Parents. Sponsors: (Miss) Ellen Fitton, aunt, of Passage West, County Cork, Ireland, by proxy of the mother of the child, John Fauvel Esq., and (Mrs.) Eliza Hamilton. --George Milne, Clergy

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9
Oct 1996

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Notes:

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9
Oct 1996

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Birth:
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Robert married Sarah Harriet Munro on 26 Sep 1834 in New Carlisle, Cox Township, Quebec, St Andrew Anglic. Sarah (daughter of William Johnson Munro and Sarah Sherar) was born on 15 Jul 1809 in Caraquet, Gloucester Co., New Brunswick, Canada; died on 11 Jul 1902 in Bathurst, Gloucester Co., New Brunswick, Canada; was buried in Jul 1902 in Bathurst, Gloucester Co., New Brunswick, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sarah's father died when she was quite young, so her mother returned to live with her father Mr. Sherar. Sarah married Dr. R. W. Fitton and lived in New Carlisle, Canada.

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, James Donald

Documentation has not been found for the marriage of Sarah Harriet Munro and Jeremiah Hidden Brown in church registers. According to the family Memoir she was married about 1823 at the age of 13 or 14. Jeremiah Brown was first a clerk in her Father's (William J. Munro) store in Caraquet. Her mother Sarah Sherar Munro refers to him as "my good friend" in papers relating to the Estate settlement of Wm J. Munro.

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Notes:

The birth and christening records of William Johnson Munro has not yet been located. History directs that he was born in the city of Montreal due to the following proven facts: (1) William's mother, Mary Brower, with her other seven children, escaped to Fort St. John via Lake Champlain and Crown Point in 1778. (2) Her husband, Captain John Munro, met her at Fort St. John. (3) John was dispatched to Montreal to find housing there for Loyalist families and also took Mary and the children with him. (4) Mary and the children stayed in Montreal until 1783 when John went to England to help plead for compensation for lands lost by Loyalists in New York. (5) William was probably christened by the Regimental Chaplain as he was a personal friend, although some of these records have been lost.

William was named after the celebrated General Johnson of the British Army, a much esteemed comrade in arms of his father, John Munro. He grew up on the Munro land grants at Matilda, near Morrisburg, Ontario. He signed on with the North West Fur Company and eventually settled in Bas-caraquet, New Brunswick in 1807, where he received a land grant as a Loyalist son.

William spent eight years in the service of the Northwest Fur Company, enlisting in about 1798 for an eight year indenture. He spent most of this time in the Grand Portage, Fort William Area, but mad voyages to other outposts from time to time.

In 1808 William completed his indenture to the North West Company. Disappointed at the inadequate wages offered for a "factor" or permanent post with The Company, he left western Canada to take up a merchandising offer made by his cousin, Hugh Munro, of St. Peter (Bathurst) New Brunswick. Eventually he settled on a site at Bas Caraquett on the Bay of Chaleur, opposite the Colony of New Carlisle-Paspebiac. He built a Trading Post-Store where he dealt in furs and provisioned the French fisherman and bought their salted fish for shipping by Hugh Munro and Sherar ships. His long experience in the western lands stood him in good stead and certainly provided him with the language skills to deal also with the French speaking fishermen who populated the area. William may have become an agent for the Hudson Bay Company both on the New Carlisle side of the bay and on the New Brunswick side at Carequete. Hudson Bay Company agents held positions of considerable importance and the agent occupied a central influence in many respects in the community.

Although he died early and in debt, if he had been able to maintain his business until it began to show a profit he would undoubtedly have established a very lucerative post.

Munro Island in the Shippigan area still bears William Munro's name although title went out of the family when his son Thomas Brock Munro sold the property.

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, James Donald
Stroud, Anna Margaret

References:

(1) Clan Munro library - "The Munro Beacon" - Spring/Summer 1996 - Vol. 22, No.
2 - p. 5

(2) Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9 Oct
1996

(3) "The Munro Eagle" - number 27 - summer 1997-1998 - p. 33-38

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Buried:
William died at his home in 1820 at the age of 39 and was buried on his farm because the Catholic Church refused to bury a Presbyterian in their cemetery. In the fall of 1993, a homeowner on the old Munro property discovered human bones while doing an excavation. An Investigation identified the remains as being those of William Johnson Munro and his son. In 1995, after considerable paperwork, the remains were released to William's descendant, Henry Munro for re-interment in the cemetery of Trinity Anglican Church in Riverside Heights alongside W.J.'s father, Captain John Munro.

William married Sarah Sherar on 15 Sep 1808 in Caraquet, Gloucester Co., New Brunswick, Canada. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Sherar) was born on 26 Aug 1786 in New Carlisle, , Québec, Canada; died in 1837 in New Carlisle, , Québec, Canada; was buried in 1837 in New Carlisle, , Québec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

All church records of her marriage to William had been lost so Sarah endured a prolonged period of litigation after William's death while she endeavored to unravel his legal title to Crown land grants in Caraquette as well as authenticating the debts due him from fishermen in the Trading Post Store and other business enterprises and inheritances. Eventually most of this was cleared, although she lost title to some of the land through ambiguous title.

Sarah had to liquidate most of William's holdings to pay their debts and support her children. Even some of the lots that William had inherited from his father, Capt. Hon John Munro, in Upper Canada on the Matilda, Dundas County homestead were eventually sold for expenses by his sons William Thomas and Thomas B. Munro after many years of litigation over his estate.

Sarah returned to New Carlisle with her six children to live with her father on the old Sherar homestead which was about a mile west of the Munro homestead at Paspebiac.

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