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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 1732 - 1810 (78 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. |  David Herd was born in 1732; died in 1810. Notes:
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The following is a transcription of RW "Billy" Munro's genealogy notes:
[Alexander Munro] «i»Second son of Hugh Munro, Younger of Teaninich, & Elizabeth Fraser; merchant trading in Lisbon, where he died unmarried, 3 Aug 40, leaving a considerable personal estate, of which the Lisbon inventory was in the Teaninich Charter Chest (also in National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh Testaments), had a 'large collection' of Scots songs 'supposed now to be lost' one of which was printed in an edition of Scott's 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' from MSS of David Herd (1732-1810). ?Same as Alexander (b. c.1695)
Munro Tree (M/15) MHM p. 420; Edinburgh Testaments, 13 Aug 1741; Sir Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of Scottish Border, (ed. T. Henderson, 1931), p. 496 (& see 67); for D. Herd, see Miller's Literary History of Scotland, pp. 412, 566-7.
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA
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