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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 1783 - 1852 (69 years)
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| Name |
Catherine Munro |
| Suffix |
Of Culcairn |
| Born |
1783 |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
29 Feb 1852 |
| Person ID |
I28644 |
Munro |
| Last Modified |
27 May 2001 |
| Family |
Hugh Rose, Of Glastullich, b. Abt 1766, d. Sep 1846, Inverness, , Inverness, Scotland  (Age ~ 80 years) |
| Married |
15 Feb 1815 |
| Children |
| + | 1. George William Holmes Ross, Of Culcairn, b. Est 1816, Of, Cromarty , d. 19 Nov 1883, Cromarty House (Age ~ 67 years) |
| | 2. Catherine Ross, b. 1820, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 3. Arabella Ross, b. 1822, d. 1847 (Age 25 years) |
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| Last Modified |
20 Jan 2009 |
| Family ID |
F9971 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Catherine married Hugh Rose of Glastullich, son of the Rev. Hugh Rose, parish minister of Creich (1759-1770) and of Tain (1770-1774).
As a young man, Hugh went to the West Indies to seek his fortune and succeeded in finding it. He was employed there by the Government as Paymaster in the Commissariat Department. He returned to Scotland in about 1802.
Hugh's first wife was Miss Phips, the daughter of a West Indian planter, who was quite wealthy. Soon after he arrived in Scotland, he purchased the estates of Glastullich, Calrossie, and Tarlogie, all in the vicinity of Tain, and Culcairn, in the parish of Roskeen. This was the ancient inheritance of his forbears on his mother's side. He soon converted the estates from "a state of nature" to a "highly adorned and cultivated condition."
Mr. Joseph Mitchell, C.E., Inverness, who knew Hugh intimately says in his "Reminiscences of my Life in the Highlands, vol. I. pp. 285-288" that Hugh was energetic and active, a great promoter of roads and other public works. He was disliked at first by the old families of the county because of all the improvements and innovations he made.
He had to fight several legal battles because of his estates. After an expensive legal battle he won the fishing rights in the Dingwall Firth. He lost to the duke of Sutherland, an action for the same rights in the Dornoch Firth.
He also had a major litigation over the Cromarty estate, which he claimed in right of his second wife, Catherine. After forty years, he finally won his claim. When he entered the property, he assumed the name of Ross and lived several years in the possession and enjoyment of the Cromarty estates.
He seemed to be constantly in the courts until it seemed that litigation was his passion. The last weeks of his life were spent in court against Munro of Teaninich. It so happened that both litigants were quite old and both died soon after the court rendered its decision. Hugh passed away in a hotel in Inverness.
Hugh was an able and kind-hearted man, and, notwithstanding his excitable and keen temper, within the precincts of his own house and family there ever reigned peace and domestic happiness. he was active in relieving the poor, the indigent, and oppressed.
He was buried in the ancient church of St. Duthus in Tain where he had served for many years as Provost.
Ref. (1) gives Catherine's death date as 29 Feb 1852 and as 20 Feb 1852 in two different places on p. 166.
References:
(1) "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie (1898) - p. 163-166
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