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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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1859 - Infant
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
2. | Rev. George Charles Hall was born about 1815 in Of, Churcham, Gloucestershire; and died. Notes:
Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
327
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.
George married Jane Ferrier on 2 Feb 1838. Jane (daughter of Louis Henry Ferrier, Of Belsyde and Charlotte Monro) was born on 1 Feb 1817; died in 1885. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 3
6. | Louis Henry Ferrier, Of Belsyde was born about 1776 in Of, Belsyde, Linlithgowshire; died on 28 Jan 1833 in Québec, , Québec, Canada. Notes:
In 1830, Louis went to the Imperial College of Customs in Quebec, Canada.
Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
325
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA
Louis married Charlotte Monro on 10 Nov 1808. Charlotte (daughter of Dr. Alexander Monro, of Craiglockart and Katherine Inglis) was born in 1782; died in 1882. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 4
14. | Dr. Alexander Monro, of Craiglockart was born on 21 Mar 1733 in Edinburgh, , Midlothian, Scotland (son of Dr. Alexander Munro, of Auchenbowie and Isabella MacDonald); died on 2 Oct 1817; was buried in Edinburgh, , Midlothian, Scotland. Notes:
Dr. Monro succeeded his father as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinnnboro, holding the position for forty-four years. He was a founder of the Royal Society there, and worte many medical treatises of standard authority, which were translated into foreign languages, giving him a European reputation. He discovered, or identified a crevice in the brain that is still called the Foramen of Monro. His son, Dr. Alexander Monro, tertius enjoyed refering to "me fayther's hole in the haid."
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The following is a transcription of RW "Billy" Munro's genealogy notes:
[Alexander Monro II] «i»Third & youngest son of Professor Alexander Monro (primus) 1697-1767, was born Edinburgh 10 or 20 May, 1733; as "secundus" admitted conjunct professor of Anatomy with father 1754; MD Edinburgh 1755, took over work of professorship 1758-1759 and discharged it unaided for 40 years. His son Alexander(tertius) becoming colleague in 1798, resigned 1808, bought Craiglockhart 1773 & Cockburn 1783, mentioned in Foulis entail, 1776; died 2 October, 1817, having married 1762 Katherine Inglis with issue Alexander (tertius) & David (1776-1843
Dictionary of National Biography, Inglis pp 89-110; Mackenzie pp 322-328, 144 entail; Murray Annals of Colinton; J. Grego, "Rowlanson the Caricaturist" I 124; RW Innes Smith "English Spaking Students of Medicine at the University of Leyden' (1932), p 162; J P Munroe 38-39; RE Wright St. Clair "Doctors Monro' pp 69-95; Scots Magazine (1762) 507; Gents Magazine 1988 i 493, 1754; A. Wight "Present State of Husbandry in Scotland", III (ii) 452; Highland Society of Scotland, 'Prize Essays of Scotland (2nd edition 1812), I (ii) plxxiii
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The following is a transcription of RW "Billy" Munro's genealogy notes:
[Alexander Monro] «i»Eldest son of Prof. Alexander Monro (1733-1817, Secundus), was born Edinburgh 5 November 1773; M.D. Edinburgh University 1797; conjunct. Prof. of Anatomy with father from 1798, in sole charge (as Tertius) from 1808 until his own retirement in 1846, when the family's 126 years reign ended; a voluminous writer; built mansion-house 1823 at Craiglockhart, where he died 10 March 1859; married (1st) 1800 Maria Agnes Carmichael-Smyth, with issue - Alexander (b. 1803), James (b. 1806), Henry (b. 1810), David (b. 1813, d. 1877), Wm. (b. 1815), Charles (b. 1818) and six daughters; (2nd) 1836) Jessie or Janet Hunter without issue. daughter Catherine (1804-50) married Sir James Stewart of Allanbank, Bart. (d. 1849)
Inglis, pp. 111-9, 126-31. Mackenzie, pp. 328-31. D.N.B. Crombies "Modern Athenians" (1882 edn.), pp. 175-6, portrait opp. p. 175. J.P. Munroe 39. CMA ii 22. E. Swann "Christopher North", 158-9. R.E. Wright St. Clair "Doctors Munro" pp. 96-117. C.J. Smith "History S. Edinburgh" ii 324. St. John's Episc. (Edin.) M1-dr-Catherine. W.F. Skene "Family of Skene" 143 - dr Georgina. F. Boase Modern English Biography" ii 926. Highland Society of Scotland Prize essays (1807) iii 628. «/i»
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Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - L/51
Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
p. 322-324
Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
319
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Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
327-328
The Highlander reference says Alexander was born 22 May 1733.
Ref: "The Highlander" - May/Jun 1997 - p. 26
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA
Buried:
Grey-Friar's Church
Alexander married Katherine Inglis in 1762. Katherine was born about 1735; died in 1803. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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15. | Katherine Inglis was born about 1735; died in 1803. Notes:
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The following is a transcription of RW "Billy" Munro's genealogy notes:
[Alexander Monro II] «i»Third & youngest son of Professor Alexander Monro (primus) 1697-1767, was born Edinburgh 10 or 20 May, 1733; as "secundus" admitted conjunct professor of Anatomy with father 1754; MD Edinburgh 1755, took over work of professorship 1758-1759 and discharged it unaided for 40 years. His son Alexander(tertius) becoming colleague in 1798, resigned 1808, bought Craiglockhart 1773 & Cockburn 1783, mentioned in Foulis entail, 1776; died 2 October, 1817, having married 1762 Katherine Inglis with issue Alexander (tertius) & David (1776-1843
Dictionary of National Biography, Inglis pp 89-110; Mackenzie pp 322-328, 144 entail; Murray Annals of Colinton; J. Grego, "Rowlanson the Caricaturist" I 124; RW Innes Smith "English Spaking Students of Medicine at the University of Leyden' (1932), p 162; J P Munroe 38-39; RE Wright St. Clair "Doctors Monro' pp 69-95; Scots Magazine (1762) 507; Gents Magazine 1988 i 493, 1754; A. Wight "Present State of Husbandry in Scotland", III (ii) 452; Highland Society of Scotland, 'Prize Essays of Scotland (2nd edition 1812), I (ii) plxxiii
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Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie - Inverness (1898) - p.
324, 327-328
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.
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