Mary Haynes

Notes:

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

Collonel Robert Munro the Black Baron of Fowlis married my Lord Duffhouse his daughter Margaret by whom he had a daughter next one Haines an Englishwoman he was Collonel of Horse and foot in Germany. ...Second wife Mary Haynes m England c. 1618 and survived him alleged he deserted her (2RPC i intro xcvii-viii, FW 201, Suthd Bk iii 199)...

Ref: "History of the Munros" by A. Mackenzie - p. 81-83

In an inventory accompanying the last will and testament, dated the 1st of March, 1656, of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, one of the sums set forth as being due to him is an "item by the deceased Robert Munro of Fowlis, one hundred and thirty-three pounds six shillings and eight pennies principal, with the annual rent thereof since the date of the bond." There is another "item be Mistress Mary Haynes, relict of the umquhile Robert Munro of Fowlis, fifty-three pounds six shillings and eight pennies, with the annual rent thereof." (The Sutherland Book, vol. iii., pp. 198-99.) This latter entry is interesting inasmuch as it shows that Robert took his second wife home with him to Scotland after the Newcastle affair, of which presently, and that she outlived him.

Robert married, secondly, before 1624, in London, Mary Haynes, an English lady, with issue, an only child, also a daughter, one of his co-heiresses--

The following letter from James I., dated the 14th May, 1624, instructing the Scottish Privy Council "to attend to the case of Mary Haynes, an English woman married to Robert Munro of Fowlis, but deserted by him for another woman," will be found interesting here:--

"Right trusty and well-beloved Counsellors, we greet you well: whereas there hath a humble complaint been made to us by one Mary Haynes alias Monro, born in this our kingdom (of England) showing that she was lawfully married to Robert Monro of Fowlis, and that he, having had with her a sum of money in portion, did carry her along with him to Newcastle, where he left her, pretending that she, who was then with child, might be refreshed, and that he might go before to that our kingdom (of Scotland) to provide for her coming; notwithstanding whereof and of the great trouble she has suffered by this neglect of his, he has never since come near her, but, though he entertained her still with hopeful letters protesting the continuance of his love and duty, hath in the meantime married himself to another; which is a course so barbarous and contrary to all conscience and equity that we cannot in justice but see her repaired and him punished: Therefore having taken this her petition which we have sent you herewith enclosed to [? for] your consideration, our pleasure is that you call the said Robert before you, and thereafter, after due trial, with advice of our Right Rev. Father in God, and right trusty and well-beloved Counsellor, the Archbishop of St. Andrews, and such other of the spiritual court whose opinion is found requisite, you give order whereby some course may be taken how she may be satisfied and the kingdom purged of that vile scandal. The doing whereof we remit unto you, wishing you to have a special care of the same and so bid you farewell. From our court at Theobalds', 14th of May, 1624."

There is another letter from his Majesty on the 8th of June following "concerning the same subject" and letters are ordained to be directed against Fowlis accordingly.

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

Birth:
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Mary married Robert Munro, XVIII of Foulis in 1618 in London, , Greater London, England. Robert (son of Hector Munro, XVII of Foulis and Anne Fraser) was born about 1589; died in Mar 1633 in Ulm, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany; was buried in Ulm, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Florence Munro was born est 1620; and died.
2. Elizabeth Munro was born in 1623 in , , , England; died about 1618.