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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 1723 - Yes, date unknown
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| Name |
Seymour [1] |
| Born |
1723 [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Yes, date unknown |
| Person ID |
I12114 |
Munro |
| Last Modified |
21 Aug 2009 |
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| Notes |
- Seymors may have been named in compliment to Lady Munro.
Ref: The Munro Tree (1734) - M/97
Ref: "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - M/97
"Alexander Munro Commissar Deput of Inverness married Katherine daughter to Mr Alexander Fraser Provost of Inverness by whom he has Alexander Seymors Elizabeth."
"Alexander commissary and sheriff clerk of Inverness and Katharine Fraser had John, Robert, Alexander, James and drs Seymors, Elizabeth and Christian (Invass OPRs 1721-3), also Simon (ib. 1741 & Munro Eagle vii 37-8); Seymors, presumably named in compliment to Lady Munro (see Z below) as her sponsor, has been misread as 'John' (Mackenzie 415); Alexander baptd. 1724 may have been eldest surviving son in 1734."
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The following is a transcription of RW Munro's genealogy notes:
[Alexander Munro] «i»Eldest son of John Munro (of Milntown of Alness family) and ______ Clunas; succeeded father as representative of family, probably 1718; Sheriff Clerk of Inverness (later Sheriff Substitute); appointed 21 July 1738 one of the ordinary "doers" and regents of the Lovat family in North of Scotland for life by Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat; unsuccessfully claimed £2,000 Scots compensation for loss of office as Sheriff-Clerk (appointed by Lovat 21 January 1738); combined with the Clerkship of the regality of Lovat under Heritable Jurisdictions Act, 1747; Commissary Depute (1731) - probably the "Commissary of Inverness", one of arbitrators between Lovat and Glenmoriston, 1735/45, and "Commissary Depute of 1739. Probably writer in Inverness who was served heir general to brother John writer there in 6 February, 1718; Married in Inverness Catherine (baptized 1702) daughter of Provost Alexander Fraser, Inverness, with issue John (baptized 1721); Robert (1722); Alexander (1724); James (1730); Simon (1741-1790); & 3 daughters Seymour 1723, Elizabeth 1728, & Christian 1734.
Mackenzie 415; Forfeited Estates papers(1818) p 1; C. Fraser Mackintosh, Antiquarian Notes P26-27,101,265; Old Parish Register Inverness; Scots Magazine X 549-551 (Lovat's Letter of 1739);J. Hill Burton 'Life of Duncan Forbes' p 261; Heritable Jurisdictions Act Petitions (Signet Library) # 83; D. Warrand "Some Fraser Pedigrees' p 85; Acts of Sederunt Court of Session) I 418-31; J. Dunbar "History of Highland Dress" 7-8; Keltie: 768 - jurisdiction; Services of Heirs (1710-1719) p 13; Chisholm Writs #814,815 (both 1727-Commissary Depute & Sheriff Clerk).
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA [1]
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- [S668] RW Munro's Genealogy Database, Robert William Munro, (The collected genealogy notes of RW Munro, Hon. Historian of Clan Munro (Association) edited by Dr. Jean Munro, transcribed by Charles C. Munroe, III and others. Transcription completed Jan 2009. Original card file is kept at the "Storehouse of Foulis" near Foulis Castle in Scotland.), card 179 (Reliability: 3).
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