Alexander Munro

1851 - 1935  (84 years)

• Name	Alexander Munro  [1]
  Born	1851	, , Prince Edward Island, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1935	Whitbourne, , Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada   [1]
  Person ID	I58613	Munro
  Last Modified	6 Sep 2008

  
  

  Father	Alexander Munro,   b. 1814, Snizort, , Isle Of Skye, Scotland ,   d. 30 Nov 1879, Montague, , Prince Edward Island, Canada  (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Mary Stewart,   b. 6 Aug 1816, , , Isle of Skye, Scotland ,   d. 14 Dec 1902  (Age 86 years)
  Married	Abt 1842	, , Prince Edward Island, Canada   [1]
  	Alexander and Mary lived for some years at West River, which is south west of Charlottetown, and then acquired land at Whim Road, near Montague, in Prince Edward Island in 1848 and established a farm there. [1]
  Family ID	F20292	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Julia Pelley,   b. 1870, Black Island, Nore Dame Bay, Newfoundland, Canada ,   d. 1965  (Age 95 years)
  Married	3 Mar 1892	Burnt Bay, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, Canada   [1]
  	Record #20 in the Burnt Bay, Notre Dame Bay Methodist Marriage Register - Alexander Munroe age 29, bachelor, Lumberman, of Indian Arm, Father's name - Alexander Munroe, married Julia Pelley, age 22, spinster, of Indian Arm, father's name Moses Pelley on 3 Mar 1892 by Henry Whitmore. Julia and Alex lived at Apsey Cove, Campbellton in the early years of their marriage. Alex obtained a grant from the government to 19 acres there in 1893. Effie later recalled living there: "Where Jack, Will and I were born, was called Apsey Cove, and a pretty cove it was. I have a map of it and the size, not very large, but a natural spring. It became Indian Arm and I suppose now, Campbellton. Father had this lot surveyed and mind you recorded in Saint John's. I asked (brother) Will how he got it to St. John's and he said it must have been by dog sleigh". It appears that Alex and Julia moved their family from Campbellton to Glenwood between 1897 and 1900. The reason for the move probably had to do with the arrival of the cross-island railway in Glenwood about 1895, and the establishment of a major sawmill there by Lewis Miller in 1900-1901. Located where the Lower Gander River exits Gander Lake, Glenwood would have been viewed as a good place to live if one was working in the woods industry. Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA - email: Alger@alum.mit.edu [1]
  Children	1. William Daniel Munro,   b. 1892, Campbellton, , Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada ,   d. 1971  (Age 79 years)   2. John Alexander Munro,   b. 1892, Campbellton, , Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada ,   d. 1966  (Age 74 years)   3. Mary Euphemia Munro,   b. 1894, Campbellton, , Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada ,   d. 1975  (Age 81 years)   4. Leah Georgina Munro,   b. 1897, Campbellton, , Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada ,   d. 1990  (Age 93 years)   5. Flora Munro,   b. 1900, Glenwood, , Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada ,   d. 1914, Saint John, Saint John Co., New Brunswick, Canada  (Age 14 years) + 6. Alister Malcolm Munro,   b. 1904, Glenwood, , Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada ,   d. 1965  (Age 61 years)
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2009
  Family ID	F20294	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Alexander went to Newfoundland, Canada in about 1891 from Prince Edward Island. ********** The following is from "The Munros of Glenwood" by John Munro: "Not much is known about Alex's early life. He probably went to school because he could read and write English and Gaelic. No doubt he also would have worked for a while on the family farm. In the 1891 PEI [Prince Edward Island] Census he listed his occupation as 'wage earner-mining'. Family lore has it that someone once said of Alex, 'he's no farmer'. Norma MacLeod has noted that, 'the Munros tended to move about from one parish to another in Skye' and it appears that our Alexander was also a bit of a roamer. he probably worked in the mines out West in Colorado or elsewhere at one stage. His son Will (WD) said Alex spent some time in North Dakota before coming to Newfoundland. Quite a few people from PEI went west in the late 1800's to work in the mines or on the railways that were being built to the Pacific. A former resident of PEI, Mr. John A. McLean, was the first mayor of Bismark, the capital of North Dakota, and he actively encouraged people to move there from his home. Alex's sister, Flora and her husband Malcolm Stewart moved out there in 1895 and settled at Stewartsdale, near Menoken, where some other Stewarts from PEI were already living. Malcolm Stewart's son, Alex James Stewart told (his son Leslie Stewart) of his Uncle (who Leslie thought was Alex Munro) bouncing him on his knee in PEI before they left and saying, 'this is the way you'll ride horses when you get to Dakota'. Alex Munro might have been in Newfoundland looking into mining or lumbering opportunities there, when he met his future wife julia in Nortre Dame Bay. On first seeing her, he is reported to have said to a friend, 'This is the woman I am going to marry'. On the marriage certificate, Alex gave his age as 29, but he was really about 41. apparently, he misled his bride about his age and Julia was later shocked when she learned how old he really was. However, this didn't seem to hurt their marriage in the long run. ********** Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S657] Clan Munro files - Munro, John A., John A. Munro, The Munros of Glenwood, Newfoundland - 15 Jun 2008 (Reliability: 3).