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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 Abt 1562 - 1603 (~ 41 years)
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| Name |
Hector Munro [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Suffix |
XVII of Foulis |
| Born |
Abt 1562 [5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
14 Nov 1603 [5, 6] |
| Buried |
Kiltearn, , Ross-Shire, Scotland  [7] |
| Person ID |
I20 |
Munro |
| Last Modified |
21 Jul 2012 |
| Father |
Robert Mor Munro, XV of Foulis, b. Abt 1523, d. 4 Nov 1588, Dingwall, Ross-Shire, Scotland, (Foulis Castle) (Age ~ 65 years) |
| Mother |
Margaret Ogilvy, b. Abt 1530, , , , Scotland , d. 2 Dec 1564 (Age ~ 34 years) |
| Family ID |
F1577 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Anne Fraser, b. Abt 1564, d. 16 Mar 1597 (Age ~ 33 years) |
| Married |
Abt 15 Jul 1590 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Robert Munro, XVIII of Foulis, b. Abt 1589, d. Mar 1633, Ulm, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany (Age ~ 44 years) |
| + | 2. Col. Sir Hector Munro, XIX of Foulis, 1st Baronet, b. Abt 1592, d. Apr 1635, Hamburg, , Hamburg, Germany (Age ~ 43 years) |
| | 3. Margaret Munro, b. Est 1594, , , , Scotland , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
20 Jan 2009 |
| Family ID |
F1579 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- As a younger son, Hector did not expect to inherit any land and so he prepared for the Church. He was educated at St. Andrews University and his first preferment was the Chaplainry of Newmore to which he was presented in 1560 by Queen Mary. He was later assigned to the Chaplainary of Obsdale in 1570
On 8 May 1583, King James VI presented Hector as Dean of Ross. Alexander Urquhart, the former Dean had been deposed and "put to the horn." Alexander resisted being replaced and continued to occupy the lands and collect the rents for himself. The Privy Council finaly had to step in on 21 Jul 1585 and force Alexander Urquhart out so that Hector could assume his position as Dean of Ross. Hector served in this capacity until 15 Aug 1589 when, because of his succession to Foulis, he resigned all his Church positions.
Having survived both his elder brothers, the lands that had been conveyed to Robert by his father, were conveyed to Hector on 26 Mar 1589. He was also served heir to his brother, Hugh, in Meikle and Little Clyne on 7 Oct 1589.
On 4 Jun 1589, Hector's stepmother, Catherine Ross filed a complaint against Hector accusing him of attempting to dispossess her from her lands in the Barony of Foulis. The complaint says that he first attempted to frighten her off by persuing some of her tenants and servants in order to do them bodily harm and kill them. When that didn't work, the complaint says that Hector tried to frame Catherine and several other women, wrongly accusing them of practicing witchcraft and begining legal action against them.
The Privy Council ordered Hector to stop the action against the ladies and to leave them alone until Jul 1590, when a trial would be held in Edinburgh to hear the charges.
The trial was held on 22 Jul 1590. Hector served as an associate of the King's Advocate, David Macgill of Cranston-Riddell, in the prosecution of his stepmother, Lady Catherine of Foulis on charges of witchcraft. The jury acquitted Lady Catherine and promptly after that trial, another was started in which Hector was the defendant charged with "sorcery, incantation, witchcraft, slaughter, etc."
Hector was charged with having employed a witch to cure him of a fever, which she pretended to do by having him carried out in a blanket in a frosty night in January, and laying him down in a newly-made grave at the boundary between two baronies, in order to transfer the fever to his stepbrother, George, who was to die in his place. George actually did die on 3 Jun 1590 and part of the accusation against Hector was that he had used poison to kill him. Hector Munro of Fyrish also appears to have been implicated in the matter. In any case, Hector was also acquitted that day, probably partly due to the fact that the jury was composed of Munros and Rosses and their dependents.
On 9 Mar 1593, Hector and others were commissioned to apprehend George Earl of Huntly, William Earl of Angus, Francis Earl of Erroll, Sir Patrick Gordon of Achindown, Sir James Chisholme of Dunborne, and several others for practicing the "Papist" religion, which was then considered a treasonable act against the "true religion presently professed within this realm." The commission also ordered him to help apprehend and present to the King and Council or to the Justice, the persons responsible for burning Donniebristle and murdering James, Earl of Moray.
Hector was in great favor with and highly esteemed by King James VI. In a letter from His Majesty to his "right trusty friend the Laird of Foulis," the King took notice of his loyalty and faithful service and particularly recommended him to keep his men in good order.
On 4 Feb 1597, a disturbance took place at Logie-Riach, on the banks of the river Conon, between the Mackenzies on the one hand and the Baynes and Munros on the other, in which several of the latter were slain. Some difference arose between a desperado, John MacGilliechallum, a brother of the Laird of Raasay, and the Baynes about the lands of Torridon, and the latter obtained a decree against John, interdicting him from going on his lands or molesting his people.
Soon after this, Bayne attended the Candlemas market then held at Logie, with a large following of armed men, composed of Baynes and a considerable number of Munros. MacGilliechallum came to the fair too, as was his custom, and while buying some article at a chapman's stall, Alastair Mor Bayne came up behind him and without any warning struck him on the head with a two-edged sword, killing him instantly.
One of the Mackenzies, to whom MacGilliechallum was related, interfered, but he no sooner opened his mouth, than he was run through the body by one of the Baynes. The alarm and the news of the death of the two men immediately spread through the market. "Tulloch Ard," the war cry of the Mackenzies was instantly raised, whereupon the Baynes and the Munros took to their heels--the Munros eastward to the Ferry of Foulis and the Baynes northward to the hills, both followed by a band of the infuriated Mackenzies, who slaughtered everyone they overtook.
Ian Dubh Mac Choinnich Mhic Mhurchaidh of the Clan Mhurchaidh and Ian Gallda Mac Fhionnla Dhuibh, two gentlemen of the Mackenzies, were on their way from Chanonry when they met with a batch of the Munros flying in confusion in that direction, and the pair having learned the cause of the flight to be the murder of their two friends at Logie, they pursued the fugitives and slew no less than thirteen of them between Logie and the wood of Millechaich.
Most of the Baynes were killed and the Munros lost no less than fifty able-bodied men. One lady of the clan lost her three brothers in the fight.
The matter was soon after brought before the King and Privy Council, then at Falkland, by the intervention of Lord Lovat and Mackenzie of Kintail, when the principals consented to subscribe a contract of agreement and peaceful behaviour towards each other ever after.
On 31 Jan 1602, an act of the Privy Council ordered him, and the other principal Highland chiefs, to hold a general muster of his followers on 10 Mar, and to list the names of all the persons mustered, with the form and manner of their arms, and send a report to the King as soon as possible. He was also ordered to send 100 men and supplies to go to the assistance of Queen Elizabeth of England in repressing the rebellion of her Irish subjects.
Hector's first wife was Anne (or Agnes) Fraser. Mackenzie gives some facts about her on p. 72 which actually should be attributed to her great aunt of the same name.
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(The following is from "The Monroe Book" - by Dr. J. S. Guilford - p. 10)
«i»Teachatt [was] granted in 1591 by Hector of Foulis to John Munro, "writer," (i.e., lawyer) on condition that he render legal services to the Barons and their successors. Fraser seems to take delight in noting that this family retainer died intestate.«/i»
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA [1, 2]
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| Sources |
- [S247] History of the Munros of Fowlis, Alexander Mackenzie, M.J.L., (Published in Inverness, Scotland by A & W Mackenzie (1898)), p. 55, 58-59, 62-73 (Reliability: 3).
- [S686] The Munro Tree (1734), R. W. Munro, (Privately published in Edinburgh, Scotland (1978)), p. 5 (L/35), p. 19 (S) (Reliability: 3).
- [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 377 (Reliability: 3).
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- [S727] The Monroe Book, Dr. Joan S. Guilford, (Franklin, North Carolina: Genealogy Publishing Service, 1993.).
- [S247] History of the Munros of Fowlis, Alexander Mackenzie, M.J.L., (Published in Inverness, Scotland by A & W Mackenzie (1898)), p. 72 (Reliability: 3).
- [S113] Clan Munro files - Bush, Cornelia Wendell, Cornelia Wendell Bush, Membership application for Cornelia W. Bush dated 15 Jul 20 01 (Reliability: 3).
- [S247] History of the Munros of Fowlis, Alexander Mackenzie, M.J.L., (Published in Inverness, Scotland by A & W Mackenzie (1898)), p. 72-73 (Reliability: 3).
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