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David Monro, Of Allan

David Monro, Of Allan

Male 1808 - 1893  (85 years)

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  • Name David Monro 
    Suffix Of Allan 
    Born 1808 
    Gender Male 
    Died 18 Dec 1893 
    Person ID I30837  Munro
    Last Modified 4 Sep 2009 

    Father Charles Mackenzie Monro, Of Allan,   b. Est 1750, Of, Kingsmills, Inverness, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1819, Of, Allan Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Mother Catherine Houstoun,   b. Est 1769,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 1803 
    Family ID F10636  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Bennet,   b. Abt 1810,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 31 Dec 1830 
    Children 
     1. Charles Monro,   b. Abt 1831,   d. Infant
     2. Charles Monro,   b. 1834,   d. 1855, At Sea Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 21 years)
     3. William Monro,   b. 1835,   d. 26 Aug 1890  (Age 55 years)
     4. Robert Clifford Lloyd Monro,   b. 1837,   d. 1854, At Sea Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 17 years)
    +5. David Monro, Of Allan,   b. 1839, Allan Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +6. Francis James Fraser Monro,   b. 1843,   d. 15 Dec 1878, Calcutta, , West Bengal, India Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 35 years)
     7. Hugh Ross Monro,   b. 1845,   d. Sep 1872, Shotpore Dist., Punjaub, India Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 27 years)
    +8. Catherine Monro,   b. Abt 1848,   d. Yes, date unknown
     9. George Alexander Ross Monro,   b. 1852,   d. 1874, Fort Monckton, Portsmouth Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 22 years)
     10. Elizabeth Leila Monro,   b. Abt 1854,   d. 1888  (Age ~ 34 years)
    Last Modified 20 Jan 2009 
    Family ID F10629  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie -Inverness (1898) - p.
      297-298

      Charles died in 1819, when he was succeeded by his elder son,

      IX. David Monro, when only eleven years old, having been bonr in 1808. Educated at Edinburgh, he entered the army in 1826 as Ensign in the 76th Regiment, at the time quartered in Jersey. He served with it for the next five years in Ireland, sold out in 1831, and in that year settled on his paternal estate. He was a D.L. and J.P. for the counties of Ross and Cromarty since 1831.

      He married on the 31st of December, 1830, Elizabeth daughter and only child of William Bennet, Kinmylies, near Inverness, with issue--

      David Monro, who had been in personal possession of the family estates for the extraordinary long period of 76 years, died on the 18th of December, 1893, when he was succeeded by his only surviving son, X. Captain David Monro.

      Ref: "History of the Munros of Fowlis" by A. Mackenzie -Inverness (1898) - p.
      296