Norman McLeod

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Notes:

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Q/20

"...drs Elizabeth m William MacLeod of Hamer (MacLeod Genealogy ii 103),..."

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William married Elizabeth Munro. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Munro, of Inveran and Margaret Munro) was born est 1621 in , , , Scotland; died est 1683 in , , , Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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References:

(1) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - Q/20, R/2

(2) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
472

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Robert Munro of Assynt, I of Inveran and Auchness was Montrose's 'chief scootmaster' in the Carbisdale campaign of 1650. Robert had three sons in Montrose's army.

He was a member of the Assize held at Inverness on 4 Jun 1616 where John, eighteenth Earl of Sutherland, was served heir to his father, Earl John. He was also a member of an Assize held in the Tolbooth, Inverness in 1630, when the same Earl John was declared lawful heir to the three previous Earls of Sutherland.

References:

(1) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - Q/19, Q/20,
R/2

(2) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
61, 470-472

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Robert married Margaret Munro. Margaret (daughter of Robert Munro, XVI of Foulis and Elizabeth Rose) was born est 1593; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Margaret was excluded from succession to Foulis by her uncle as heir male, but as heir to her father and grandfather, she had the lands of Kiltearn from David Bishop of Ross.

References:

(1) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - Q/20, R/1, R/2

(2) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
61, 472

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Hector entered the army and rose to the rank of Major.

He appears to have sold the Assynt estate to his son-in-law, Alexander Mackenzie of Coul, who gave it to his son, Kenneth, who in 1644, appears as proprietor. Hector, however, had purchased for his son, the lands of Inveran and of Achness, from John Gordon of Embo.

References:

(1) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - Q/18, Q/19

(2) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
69, 71, 470-471

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Hector married Isobel Dunbar. Isobel was born about 1556 in Of, Tarbat, Scotland; died on 22 Mar 1612. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Isobel was the daughter of James Dunbar of Tarbat.

References:

(1) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - Q/19

(2) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
69, 71, 470

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Birth:
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There is some controversy over whether Robert actually succeeded his father as Baron of Foulis. Robert and his father died within a year of each other, and some researchers say he predeceased his father.

"The Munro Tree" says that the Foulis estate was conveyed to Robert by his father in 1587 with his father reserving liferent. Then Robert died in Aug 1588 before his father, who died in Nov 1588. Thus "The Munro Tree" says that Robert never really succeeded to the title, but died as fiar of Foulis, that is, possessor subject to the liferent.

Mackenzie says that there is a Royal charter under the Great Seal, dated in 1589, of the lands of Easter Foulis, Daan, Inverlael, and others in the counties of Ross and Inverness, addressed to "Roberto de Foulis," as registered in the public archives. It is claimed that this disproves that Robert predeceased his father. Mackenzie says that Robert died in Aug 1589.

"The Munro Tree" says that the 1589 charter is a confirmation of the 1587 grant that conveyed the estate to Robert pending his father's liferent, and that the confirmation is in favor of Hector, not of Robert, his older brother, who was dead by then.

Robert appears to have married three times. His first wife was Marjory, the youngest daughter of Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail and Lady Elizabeth Stewart. This marriage was confirmed by a charter granted under the Great Seal on 11 Jul 1574. Marjory died a few months after their marriage without any children.

In 1579, he was engaged to marry Eleanor Gordon, the daughter of John, Earl of Sutherland and Helenor Stewart, Dowager-Countess of Erroll. But Eleanor died at Dornoch on the night before the wedding, so that marriage did not take place.

Later in the same year, he married Janet Sinclair, daughter of George, Earl of Caithness. She also died shortly after their marriage with no children.

In 1587, he married Elizabeth Rose, daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock. The marriage contract was dated 31 Aug 1579.

Robert was the target of a strange witchcraft plot. Robert's stepmother, Katherine Ross, wanted to remove Marjory Campbell, the young wife of her brother, George Ross of Balnagowan, so that he might marry Robert's wife. To accomplish this, of course, Robert had to be destroyed.

Involved in the plot were Marjory Macallister, nicknamed Loskie Loutart, a witch from Tain, and William Macgillivray, nicknamed Damh, a wizard from Tain. They formed a clay image of Robert which was to be set up and shot at with "elf arrows." This was supposed to make Robert pine away and die. Also, William sold to Robert's stepmother, a "box of witchcraft", that is of poison, for which he was later sentenced to be burned at the stake.

At a Justice Court held on 28 Nov 1577, several witches were convicted of this plot and sentanced to burn at the stake. They implicated Lady Katherine of Foulis as their employer, but she was not tried until 22 Jul 1590, and was found innocent.

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Robert married Elizabeth Rose in 1587. Elizabeth was born est 1555 in Of, Kilravock; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - R/1

Robert Munro his eldest son married four times 1 Marjory daughter to Kenneth McKenzie of Kintall 1573 2 Eleanor daughter to John Earle of Sutherland 1579 3 Janet daughter to George Earle of Caithness 1581 and last was Elizabeth daughter to the Barron of Kilravock by whom he had a daughter Margaret.

...Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock as his relict and spouse of William Gordon (FW 140) - she m in succession Walter Urquhart of Cromarty (cont 1579), Robert Munro younger of Foulis, ----- Cumming of Earnside, and William Gordon of Cairnborrow, and is said to have had sons to both Cromarty and Foulis though only descendants by dr Margaret R/2 (Family of Rose 73, Macfarlane's Gen. Colls. ii 490-1)

Ref: "History of the Munros" by A. Mackenzie - p. 61-62

In 1587 he married, thirdly, Elizabeth, sixth daughter of Hugh Rose, X. of Kilravock (by his wife, Catherine, daughter of David Falconer of Halkerton), and widow of Walter Urquhart of Cromatry, to whom she was "contracted" on the 31st of August, 1579, with a "tocher of 2000 merks." The contract with Urquhart also states that she is to be infeft in the liferent of the lands of Little Suddie; the Sub-Chanter's croft within the Chanonry of Ross; Wester Balblair; Balakervie; Kinbreachie; nineteen roods of a field lying within the burgage of Rosemarkie; and the wester oxgang of Little Rhynie, within the Abbey of Fearn. She was Walter Urquhart's second wife, and at his death, in November, 1586, there was no surviving issue. By Munro she had one child, a daughter Margaret, who married Robert Munro, III. of Assynt in Ross, with issue.

Robert died in Jul, 1589, and shortly afterwards his widow married as her third husband John Cumming of Ernside, a cadet of the family of Altyre, in Morayshire, descended from John, third son of Sir William Cumming of Altyre.

John Cumming did not long survive his marriage with Munro's widow, and after his death she married as her fourth husband, William Gordon of Carnborrow, afterwards of Rothiemay; "by which husbands," the annalist of the Roses of Kilravock says, "there is none descended of her but Munro of Inveran and Achness, by a daughter."

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