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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 1806 - 1862 (56 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. |  William Ross Munro was born in 1806; died on 8 Dec 1862 in Maynooth, , Ontario, Canada. Notes:
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(The following is from "The Munro Beacon" - Vol. 34, No. 4 - Winter 2012)
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On 8 December 1862, young Irish Catholic Immigrants, Richard and Mary Aylward were hanged before a rabid crowd of over 5,000 at the courthouse in Belleville, ON. Their crime? The murder by Mary, age 23, of a fellow settler at Maynooth, ON. ..«/i»
[T]«i»he murdered 'fellow settler' was William Ross Munro, 1806-1862.«/i»
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William emigrated from Scotland to Canada with his parents in 1832.
References:
(1) Clan Munro library - "The Munro Beacon" - Spring/Summer 1996 - Vol. 22, No. 2 - p. 3
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA
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