Henry Clay Munro

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Henry married Jane Brown on 1 Mar 1882 in Clarke Twp., Durham Co., Ontario, Canada. Jane was born on 15 Mar 1863 in Clarke Twp., Durham Co., Ontario, Canada; died on 10 Jun 1883 in Clarke Twp., Durham Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Henry Munro was born on 15 Jan 1883 in Newcastle, Durham Co., Ontario, Canada; died in 1961.
2. Ernest Munro was born about 1885; and died.

Henry married Jennie Blue on 15 Jan 1896 in Paisley, , Ontario, Canada. Jennie was born on 23 Apr 1867 in , , , Scotland; died in 1937. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Henry was a farmer. He served as a sitting Member of the Old Parliament of Canada for West Durham from 1854 to 1867.

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Birth:
Yonge Township

Henry married Elizabeth Bradley Doak in 1853. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Doak and Betsey) was born on 3 Oct 1814 in Northfield, Franklin Co., Massachusetts, USA; died on 24 Jan 1901 in Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried in , Durham Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth was educated in Boston, Massachusetts. She played the organ at harvard University.

According to the 1878 Atlas, she emigrated from USA in 1853 and it is assumed that she married Henry about this time. She brought with her to Rosedale Farm, Lot 29, Conc 2, the first piano in the West Durham County.

After leaving Rosedale Farm, she lived with her daughter Eleanor Munro Garvin in Hamilton. Henry's granddaughters, Florence Munro Sheppard and Margaret Bowen Downing occasionally visited her in Hamilton.

She died in 1901 and is buried in the Bethel Cemetery.

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Buried:
Bethel Cemetery, Clarke Township

Notes:

Daniel made a petition for land as a United Empire Loyalist. In it he stated that he was the son of Catherine Leech, widow, and that he had attained the age of 21 years, so he was born in or before 1787.

An old family note records "born 1774" in the notes column, but we don't know to whom this refers. It also has the note, Mrs. Mallory, widow, 4 sons 1 daughter. Hannah, later Page, was possibly the widow, Mrs. Mallory, who may have married again after Mallory's death. Her son, James Page stated that he was the half brother of Henry Munro.

Daniel died between 1808 and 1810 as he is listed on the 1808 census of Yonge Township, Leeds County, Ontario, but on the 1810 census, his wife Hannah Munroe is listed.

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Daniel married Hannah before 1802. Hannah was born about 1781; died on 19 Feb 1853. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hannah is believed to have married three times. Early family notes have a "Mrs. Mallory, widow" listed in the remarks after Daniel Munro. Her tombstone, "Hannah Page" was "erected by her affectionate son, Henry Munro, Esq." In another note, her son, James Page, is noted as the half-brother of Henry Munro. Eleanor Munro Garvin (1854-1952), daughter of Henry Munro, in a letter in 1937, says that she remembers Pete Mallory and James Page in connection with her grandmother and the family. In, "History of Leeds and Grenville from 1749 to 1879", on p. 112 listing the Mallory family, is noted a son, Peter Mallory (no wife named), with sons William (deceased) and Peter, living in Oshawa (1879).

By 1837, Hannah was the witness for her Munro sons' land grants and was granted her own land in Markham Township.

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Buried:
Bethel Cemetery

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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.

Thomas married Betsey. Betsey was born about 1791; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.

Notes:

(See UPDATED NOTE below, with corrections, Oct 2019)
He died during the Revolutionary War. His son, Daniel, served in the 77th Regiment under Col. Montgomery. A list of officers of the 77th includes George Munro, which could possibly be this person's name.

He could also be named Duncan, who according to family records, owned considerable land in Washington, D.C. where the White House now stands. This property was confiscated during the Revolutionary War. His widow later sued for recovery of property that was taken from her husband.

"Catherine Leech, petitioner, sweareth that she had considerable property taken from her in the colonies and her husband was murdered by the rebels on account of his attachment to the British Government." Misc./158,Vol 306.

Catherine Leech of Yonge, Ontario, Canada is found in W.B. Reid's Book of Loyalists. A 1790 petition says she was from Augusta, New York. She moved to Lower Canada in 1782-3 and then to Upper Canada in 1785 and settled in the Township of Yonge.

Ref: Clan Munro files - Davidson, William
Schneider, Norma

Ref: "The Monroe Book" by Dr. Joan S. Guilford - Conn. Unconnected Monroes

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UPDATED NOTE OCT. 2019 (By B.J. Steele, via email from Jo Ann Munro Tuskin)

Married 30 Oct 1776, Fair Haven Church, Fairfield, Stamford Darien, CT to Katherine Reed, both of Norwalk in the records, as found in "The Monroe Book" by Dr. Joan S. Guilford-Conn. Unconnected Monroes, p. 600
The 77th Regiment was disbanded in 1763, therefore none of his sons could have served in that Regiment.
The Upper Canada Land Petition of Samuel Reid Munro states, "That your petitioner is the son of Catherine Leech, deceased, formerly widow of John Munro also deceased."
The Upper Canada Land Petition of Catherine "Kitty" Munro states "that in the Fall of 1782 ... Mrs Catherine Leech and children ... were waiting at Crown Point (NY) for a boat to take them across Lake Champlain to St. John's in the Lower Province" (this is St Jean sur Richeleau, in Quebec)
The Upper Canada Land Petition of Catharine Leech, written in 1789 in Augusta, Upper Canada (now Ontario) states: "that she had considerable property taken from her in the colonies and her husband was murdered by the rebels on account of his attachment to the British Government."
Therefore, it would seem that John Munro died before 1782 during the Revolutionary War. There is a persistent family story that he was in one of the Highland Regiments that served in North American during the "French and Indian War", but the exact regiment has not been ascertained as yet. There is also evidence that the family had lived in either Kingsbury or Whitehall, Washington County, New York, and Catherine and the children escaped from there north into the British territory of Lower Canada, now Quebec, and then finally settled in Mallorytown, Ontario.
Ref: Clan Munro files-- Davidson, William
Schneider, Norma
Ref: "The Monroe Book" by Dr. Joan S. Guilford-- Conn. Unconnected Monroes
Clan Munro files-- Tuskin, Jo Ann Munro, Jo Ann Munro Tuskin, The Munros of Mallorytown (and Beyond!) - compiled by Jo Ann Munro Tuskin
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Family ID F1858

Birth:
Estimate: John's birth date is an estimate based on the birth date of his wife, Katherine.

Died:
John died before 1782.

John married Catherine (Katherine) Reid (Reed) on 30 Oct 1766 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA. Catherine (daughter of Samuel Reid and Sarah Kellogg) was born in 1749 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA; died before 1836 in , , Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The following is from "The Munros of Mallorytown (and Beyond!)" - compiled by Jo Ann Munro Tuskin - Apr 2008:

Catherine Leech sent a petition from Augusta Townshiip in Aug 1789: "That your Petitioner had considerable property taken from her in the Colonies, & her husband was murdered by the rebels, on account of his attachment to the British Government. That your petitioner is Desirous of becoming an Inhabitant in this district. She therefore prays the Home board will be pleased to Grant her two Hundred acres of land, as a compensation for her Losses and Sufferings." As a result, she was "admitted for two hundred acres". (NA RG 1, L 3, Upper Canada Land Petitions, vol 306, 'L' Bundle, Miscellaneous, No. 158, microfilm C-2138)

C2490
I the subscriber do certify that in the Fall of 1782 - was sent by General Haldimand, then Commander and Chief of the Province of Quebec etc etc etc - as a ??? to take a number of prisoners, men, women - to East Bay at the south end of Lake Champlain in the State of New York - and when he arrived there found three families waiting for an oppontunity to get to Saint Johns in the Lower Provinces - and after Landing the prisoners sent those boats back to Crown Point to the shiping - and the families waiting (Viz) - Mrs. Spooner and Children, John Atkins, wife and children and Mrs. Catherine Leech and Children - and do certify that Mrs. Catharine Proctor is Daughter to the said Mrs. Leech. Given under my hand in Yonge this 17th Jan'y 1808. Thomas Smyth J.P.

We have assumed that Catharine Leech, widow, was the Katharine Reid who married John Munro in Norwalk, Connecticut, 30 Oct 1766, for two reasons: an old, hand-written family notebook has the name Kathryne Reid' beside Daniel's name; and the name Reid has been passed down in her son Samuel's line as well as in her grandson Timothy's line and a note from a cousin says that he (Timothy) wanted the name Reid given to his grandson as 'it was his grandmother's name'.
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Katherine's daughter, Freelove, is the only child at law and heiress of Thomas Golden. He settled before 1796. In the original documents, the last 3 girls are listed as "illegitimate".

References:

(1) Clan Munro files - Munro, Ronald Geyer - Research in Branford, Connecticut
for Mrs. Elise Wildman Hammer - undated

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Notes:

Married:
"Fair Haven Church, Stamford, Darien, CT"