David Monro, Of Allan

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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.

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David married Elizabeth Bennet on 31 Dec 1830. Elizabeth was born about 1810; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1. Charles, who died in infancy.

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2. Charles, born in 1834, and entered the Bombay Army as Sub-Lieutenant. He died at sea, unmarried, in 1855, from smallpox, contracted while visiting the soldiers in hospital at Poona, where he was then quartered, at the age of twenty years and four months.

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3. William, born in 1835, an officer in the 76th Regiment, and died on the 26th of August, 1890, unmarried.

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4. Robert Clifford Lloyd, born in 1837, and lost at sea in 1854.

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5. David, now of Allan.

X. Captain David Monro, who was born at Allan in 1839, and in 1857 entered the Indian (Madras) Army as Ensign. Three years later, in 1860, he obtained his Lieutenancy, and in 1868 was promoted to the rank of Captain. From 1864 to 1874 he was attached to the Madras Staff Corps, and was throughout the greater part of his Indian service Adjutant of different regiments. Having retired on half-pay owing to ill-health, he was on the 1st of January, 1874, appointed Chief-Constable of the Isle of Man, in which position he remained until in May, 1878, he was, from among a large number of applicants, chosen Chief-Constable of the combined counties of Edinburgh and Linlithgow. On the resignation of the Hon. Charles Carnegie as Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland, Captain Monro was, on the 4th of May, 1884, appointed to that important and responsible office, which he now holds.

He married in November, 1865, Louisa Jane, third daughter of Charles Pelly, of the Madras Civil Service, Member of Council at Madras, and grand-daughter of Sir John Henry Pelly, first Baronet of Upton, county of Essex, with issue--

David married Louisa Jane Pelly in Nov 1865. Louisa was born est 1841; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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6. Francis James Fraser, born in 1843, entered the Army and rose to the rank of Captain in the 11th Regiment, Madras Infantry. In 1870, he married Gertrude, only child of Alexander Mackay, of the Bengal Civil service, with issue--a son, Archibald, born in 1872. She died in May, 1877, and he, of fever and ague, at Calcutta, on the 15th of December, 1878.

Francis married Gertrude MacKay in 1870. Gertrude was born about 1845; died in May 1877 in Calcutta, , West Bengal, India. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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7. Hugh Ross, born in 1845, and died of sunstroke, unmarried, while in the active discharge of his duties as Inspector of Police in the Shotpore District of the Punjaub, India, in September, 1872.

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10. Catherine, who, in November, 1864, married, Captain John Jervis Gregory, R.N., of Blackburn House, County of Ayr, a cadet of the Lincolnshire family of Gragory, Harlaxton Manor, near Grantham, with issue--

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Catherine married John Jervis Gregory, Of Blackburn Hou in Nov 1864. John was born about 1846 in Of, Blackburn House, Ayr-Shire; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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8. George Alexander Ross, born in 1852, and joined the Army as Sub-Lieutenant in the 4th King's Own Regiment. He died, unmarried, from a neglected attack of pleurisy at Fort Monckton, Portsmouth, in 1874, aged 22 years. He was a young officer of great promise.

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9. Elizabeth Leila, who died unmarried in 1888.

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1. Charles Lloyd Doveton, his heir. He was born on the 23rd of July, 1868, was Captain in the 3rd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, and subsequently, in 1891, joined the Bechuanaland Border Mounted Police, commanding a troop as Lieutenant. At the close of 1895 he joined with his troop the Chartered Company's forces, and immediately afterwards took part in the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, was taken prisoner along with the other officers, brought home, and placed on his trial in London, but was acquitted. He is still in the service of the Chartered Company.

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2. Raymond Pelly Houstoun, who was born on the 7th of November, 1869. He is an officer in the 2nd Devonshire Regiment.

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3. David Hugh Wratislaw, born on the 21st of December, 1872, now serving in the Cape Mounted Police.

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4. Leila Louisa, who, in April, 1891, married Charles Bidie, Superintendent of Police in the Madras Presidency, with issue--

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Leila married Charles Bidie in Apr 1891. Charles was born about 1870; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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5. Ida, who, in October, 1893, married Major John Alastair Campbell, second in command of the 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, son of James Campbell of Hampton Court House, Middlesex, and subsequently of Cawley Priory, Chichester.

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Ida married John Alastair Campbell in Oct 1893. John was born about 1874; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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6. Katherine Harriet.

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1. John Jervis, who was born in 1866 and died in 1888.

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2. Geroge Monro, born in 1878, a student at Cambridge.

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Allan George Charles, born in India on the 3rd of April, 1894.