George Munro, 1st of Auchinbowie
George Munro, 1st of Auchinbowie | |
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Allegiance | ![]() Scottish Army |
Rank | Major |
Battles/wars | Jacobite rising of 1689 |
Relations | George Monro (son) |
George Munro of Auchinbowie, originally of Bearcrofts was a Scottish born military officer of the late 17th century. He was the first Munro of Auchinbowie.[1]
Lineage
George Munro was the eldest son of
Military career
During the
After the Battle of Dunkeld, Captain George Munro was promoted to Major and was put in command of an independent company of foot in Perthshire.[1] Later as a Major in Sir Charles Graham's Regiment of Foot he fought at the Siege of Namur in 1695.[1]
Family
George Munro married Margaret Bruce of Auchinbowie in 1693.[1][2] Margaret was the second daughter of Robert Bruce of Auchinbowie.[1] She had no brothers, and on her father's death the property fell to her elder sister Janet Bruce.[1] However Janet's husband, Captain William Bruce, killed another gentleman in a drunken brawl and he fled from justice, leaving Janet to cope with the debts of the property, which proved too much for her.[1] In 1702 Janet Bruce sold the property to her brother-in-law, Major George Munro, who thus became the Laird of Auchinbowie.[1] They had the following children:
- Alexander Munro, 2nd of Auchinbowie who according to Inglis married Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Stewart, Lord Tillicultry,[1] but who according Mackenzie, designating this line as of Bearcrofts, died before his own father.[2] However, Mackenzie, page 311, does state We are not at all clear about these marriages, and think there must have been another head of the house which is here missed out.[2] According to Inglis, Alexander of Auchinbowie's son was George Munro (3rd) of Auchinbowie, who sold the property to his cousin Alexander Monro (primus), son of John Monro, son of Alexander Munro of Bearcrofts.[1] It is Alexander Monro (primus) and his father John who Mackenzie designates as the second and first Monros of Auchinbowie.[2]
- Margaret Munro, who was born in 1707.
- George Monro, who is believed to have been born in Ireland in about 1700 at Clonfin in county Longford.[3][1] When John Alexander Inglis wrote his history of the Monro of Auchinbowie family in 1911, he had not at that time identified the younger George Monro as a member of the family.[3] The younger George Monro became famous for his resolute but ultimately unsuccessful defence of Fort William Henry in 1757 during the Seven Years' War/French and Indian War and the subsequent massacre of his garrison at the hands of France's American Indian allies which is portrayed in the novel and various films by the title of The Last of the Mohicans.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Inglis, John Alexander (1911). The Monros of Auchinbowie and Cognate Families. Edinburgh: Privately printed by T. and A. Constable, printers to His Majesty. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Mackenzie, Alexander (1898). History of the Munros of Fowlis. Inverness: A. & W. Mackenzie. pp. 265–277, 305–312 and 314–321. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ JSTOR 42889472.
- ^ "Colonel Monro ... The Scotsman". mohicanpress.com. Retrieved 12 April 2022.