Source:History of the Munros (Monros of Allan)

"The Monros of Allan" History of the Munros of Fowlis

THE MONROS OF ALLAN.

I. WILLIAM MONRO, born in 1535, and first of this family, was the second son of Andrew Beg Monro, III of Milntown, by his wife, Euphemia, daughter of James Dunbar of Tarbat and Ballone Castle, Easter Ross, son of Sir James Dunbar of Westfield, county of Moray. William received as his patrimony the lands of Meikle Allan, parish of Fearn, which, known as the Maordom of Allan, belonged at the Reformation wholly or in part to the Bishop of Ross, who includes them in the rental of the Bishopric returned between 1561 and 1566, to the Collector of Thirds. In 1569 James VI granted to Andrew Beg Munro, William's father, the escheat of all the goods upon the quarter lands of Meikle Allan, with the crops of that year, forfeited by John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, for treason and lesemajesty.

William married, about 1558, Catherine, daughter of Brigadier Shaw, Governor of the Lewis, with issue —

1. Andrew, his heir and successor.
2. Donald, of whom nothing is known.

He had also several daughters, whose names have not come down to us, but one of whom married Bailie Clyne of Cromarty ; another Finlay Manson, appointed a Reader at Nigg at Beltane in 1568, and afterwards, on the 19th of June, 1569, presented by James VI to the Chaplainry of Tolly, parish of Rosskeen. In 1574, he was promoted to Tain, having also Tarbat (which then included the modern parish of Fearn), Nigg, and Edderton, his whole stipend being £26 13s 4d Scots, equal to £2 4s 4d sterling, in addition to the church lands. In 1578 he removed to Nigg, at the same time continuing to hold Tarbat as part of his ministerial charge. He is found as parson of Nigg in 1607, and remained there until his death in 1612.*

William Monro died about 1580, when he was succeeded by his elder son,

II. ANDREW MONRO, who was born in 1560, and married Mary, daughter of Donald Ross of Balmuchie, with issue —

1. David, his heir and successor.
2. George, who died unmarried,
3. Janet, who married, with issue.

He died about 1650, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

III. DAVID MONRO, who was born in 1600. He has a sasine, dated the 2nd of May, 1650, in favour of "David, eldest son of Andrew Monro, portioner of Meikle Allan." He married Marion, daughter of the Rev, John Ross, III. of Meikle Tarrell, minister of Logie-Easter, with issue—

1. David, his heir and successor.
2. John, who married and left issue, but they cannot be traced.
3. Christina    ┐
4. Janet           ├    All supposed to have died unmarried.
5. Helen         ┘

David died about 1680, when he was succeeded by his elder son,

IV. DAVID MONRO, who, born in 1640, entered the army, and was Captain of a regiment of horse raised by the Earl of Rothes, in which he served for some time in Ireland, where he was killed at the battle of the Boyne in 1690. He married Mary, daughter of Sir John Davis of Whitehall, near Carrickfergus, son of Sir John Davis, Royalist Lord Chancellor of Ireland during the reigns of James VI. and Charles I., by his wife Lady Eleanor, daughter of the Earl of Castlehaven and Baron Audley, with issue —

1. John, his heir and successor.
2. Joseph, who succeeded his brother.
3. Andrew, who married Janet Shaw, with issue—
   1. a son John, who married a daughter of Manson, Dornoch, with issue—
      1. John and
      2. Donald, and
      3. several daughters ;
   2. Janet, who died unmarried.

On his death in 1690, Captain David was succeeded by his eldest son,

V. JOHN MONRO, who burdened the estate heavily with debt, having granted William Ross of Easter Fearn several wadsets over it. The late Elizabeth Leila Monro of Allan, writing to the Rev. Dr Gustavus Aird, of Creich, on the 24th of February, 1882, says that this John "covered the estate with debt—the various wadsets still to be seen with which he involved the place." He died unmarried, and was succeeded by his brother

VI. JOSEPH MONRO, so named after one of his mother's relatives in Ireland. He was in constant financial trouble, consequent on the debt inherited by him from his brother along with the estate, and which he was not able to pay off. He married Elizabeth, only child of Captain David Ross of Balblair, parish of Edderton, with issue —

1. David, his heir and successor.
2. Andrew, who died in infancy.
3. Margaret, described as "heretrix of Allan" after the death of her elder brother David, unmarried in 1767. She was born about 1707, and married in 1740, Charles Mackenzie, descended from the family of Fairburn, with issue— a son, Charles, who assumed the name of Monro, and ultimately succeeded his uncle in the estate of Allan. His father, mother, and he resided in the meantime at Kingsmills, Inverness.

Joseph died in 1713, when he was succeeded by his only surviving son,

VII. DAVID MONRO, born in 1696, and a minor, only seventeen years old. The estate was still loaded with wadsets and almost irretrievably involved in debt. David was educated in Edinburgh, where he studied for the legal profession, passed in 1735 as a Writer to the Signet, and was subsequently appointed Clerk to the Signet, an office which he held until his death. He devoted his whole life and energies to the redemption of the lands of his ancestors from the debts and other burdens in which he found them so deeply involved on his succession, and in this laudable endeavour—riding twice a year from Edinburgh to Allan, accompanied by his man servant, to collect the rents in person—he so far succeeded as to find himself in a position to entail the estate on his nephew, Charles Mackenzie, the son of his sister Margaret. He was Edinburgh Law-Agent for the family of Fowlis, and it is said of him, when Sir Robert Munro, the fifth Baronet, and his brother Dr Duncan, were slain at the battle of Falkirk, on the 17th of January, 1746, that he went to the field of battle, claimed the bodies, had them interred in Falkirk Cemetery, and had the beautiful monument still seen there, and already described, erected to their memory. But Sir Walter Scott confirms the version given in the account of Sir Robert, under the family of Fowlis, by quoting a letter from Sir Harry Munro, Sir Robert's son, in which that gentleman gives the credit of this generous action to the Earl of Cromarty and a party of the Macdonalds. It is not, however, at all improbable that all the parties mentioned may have had their share in it. It has indeed been averred that it was the Earl of Cromarty's part in this creditable transaction that prompted President Forbes, Sir Robert Munro's cousingerman, to plead so earnestly and successfully for the life and the restoration of the estates of that forfeited nobleman. Upon Sir Robert's body David Monro of Allan found a small silver-mounted snuff-mull, cracked by one of the shots which killed its owner, and it is still preserved in Allan House. It bears an inscription, evidently placed upon it at a later date, for it will be observed that the wrong year is given, 1745 for 1746. It is as follows :—" Found after the battle of Falkirk, on the field, by David Monro of Allan, in the pocket of Sir Robert Munro of Fowlis (A.D. 1745), in which battle he was killed."
David died in Edinburgh on the 6th of December, 1767, and was buried in the Old Grey Friars Churchyard there, all the Lords of Session attending the funeral, several of them in the capacity of chief mourners, when he was succeeded in terms of his own entail by his nephew, his sister Margaret's son, who as already stated, assumed the name of Monro, as

VIII. CHARLES MACKENZIE MONRO. He was a Captain in the Ross-shire Fencibles, and married first, in 1773, Mary, daughter of Hugh Macleod, II. of Geanies, by his wife Ann, daughter of Dr Duncan Fraser, III. of Achnagairn, and sister of the wife of Andrew Ross, fourth of Pitkerie, mother of George Ross, of Cromarty, the "Scotch Agent" mentioned in the "Letters of Junius," without issue. Charles married, secondly, in 1803, his first wife's cousin, Catherine, eldest daughter of Hugh Houstoun of Creich, County of Sutherland, and grand-daughter of Isabella, daughter of Sir George Munro, I. of Newmore, ancestor of Sir Hector Munro of Fowlis, the present Baronet, with issue —

1. David, his heir and successor.
2. Charles, who, born in 1811, entered the East India Naval Service, in which he was engaged for several years as Captain, and commanded an East Indiaman at the age of twenty-one. Having retired, he emigrated to Canada, and settled in Toronto, where he died a few years ago. He married in 1838, Mary, daughter of Elrington Reid, son of Gabriel Reid of Gordonbush, by his wife Alexandrina, third daughter of Colonel George Mackay of Bighouse, with issue—
   1. Percy, who died unmarried in 1878;
   2. Charles, unmarried, in Australia ;
   3. Catherine, who married W. Stevenson, Toronto, with issue ; and
   4. two other daughters.
3. Mary Macleod, born in 1805, and died at Ilfracombe on the 28th of March, 1897, unmarried.
4. Anne, who as his second wife, married John Mackay, agent for the National Bank, Inverness, and Procurator-Fiscal for the county, with issue, among others, Jane Christina, who married Thomas Fraser, IX. and last of Eskadale, with surviving issue—Alice Henrietta, present representative of the Erasers of Eskadale, residing in London with her widowed mother. Anne died at Lingfield, Surrey, on the lOth of November, 1895, aged 88 years.
5. Williamina Houstoun, born in 1813.
6. Katherine Houstoun, born in 1814, and died at Ilfracombe, on Christmas eve, 1896, aged 81.

Charles died in 1819, when he was succeeded by his elder son,

IX. DAVID MONRO, when only eleven years old, having been born 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 —

1. Charles, who died in infancy.
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.
3. William, born in 1835, an officer in the 76th Regiment, and died on the 26th of August, 1890, unmarried.
4. Robert Clifford Lloyd, born in 1837, and lost at sea in 1854.
5. David, now of Allan.
6. Francis James Eraser, 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.
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.
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.
9. Elizabeth Leila, who died unmarried in 1888.
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 Gregory, Harlaxton Manor, near Grantham, with issue —
    1. John Jervis, who was born in 1866 and died in 1888 ;
    2. George Monro, born in 1878, a student at Cambridge.

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, 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 —

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.
2. Raymond Pelly Houstoun, who was born on the 7th of November, 1869. He is an officer in the 2nd Devonshire Regiment.
3. David Hugh Wratislaw, born on the 21st of December, 1872, now serving in the Cape Mounted Police,
4. Leila Louisa, who, in April, 1891, married Charles Bidie, Superintendent of Police in the Madras Presidency, with issue—Allan George Charles, born in India on the 3rd of April, 1894.
5. Ida, who, in October, 1893, married Major John Alastair Campbell, second in command of the ist Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, son of James Campbell of Hampton Court House, Middlesex, and subsequently of Cawley Priory, Chichester.
6. Katherine Harriet.

* Book of Assumptions

People pages	• Monro of Allan • David Ross, 1st of Balblair (c1642-1710) • Joseph Monro in Wester Allan (-c1715) • Elizabeth Ross, wife of David Munro of Allan • David Ross of Little Daan ( -1735)
Related documents	• Celtic Magazine (Munros of Milntown)
People mentioned	• William Monro • Andrew Beg Monro • Euphemia Dunbar • James Dunbar • James VI • John Leslie • Catherine Shaw • Brigadier Shaw • Andrew Monro • Donald Monro • Bailie Clyne • Finlay Manson • Mary Ross • Donald Ross • David Monro • George Monro • Janet Monro • Marion Ross • John Ross • John Monro • Christina Monro • Helen Monro • Earl of Rothes • Mary Davis • John Davis • Earl of Castlehaven • Baron Audley • Joseph Monro • Janet Shaw • William Ross • Elizabeth Leila Monro • Gustavus Aird • Elizabeth Ross • David Ross • Margaret Monro • Charles Mackenzie • Charles Monro • Robert Munro • Duncan Munro • Walter Scott • Harry Munro • Earl of Cromarty • President Forbes • Mary Macleod • Hugh Macleod • Ann Fraser • Duncan Fraser • Andrew Ross • George Ross • Catherine Houstoun • Hugh Houstoun • Isabella Munro • George Munro • Hector Munro • Mary Reid • Elrington Reid • Gabriel Reid • Alexandrina Mackay • George Mackay • Percy Monro • Catherine Monro • W. Stevenson • Mary Macleod Monro • Anne Monro • John Mackay • Jane Christina Mackay • Thomas Fraser • Alice Henrietta Fraser • Williamina Houstoun Monro • Katherine Houstoun Monro • Elizabeth Bennet • William Bennet • Robert Clifford Lloyd Monro • Francis James Eraser Monro • Gertrude Mackay • Alexander Mackay • Archibald Monro • Hugh Ross Monro • George Alexander Ross Monro • John Jervis Gregory • George Monro Gregory • Louisa Jane Pelly • Charles Pelly • John Henry Pelly • Charles Lloyd Doveton Monro • Raymond Pelly Houstoun Monro • David Hugh Wratislaw Monro • Leila Louisa Monro • Charles Bidie • Allan George Charles Bidie • Ida Monro • John Alastair Campbell • James Campbell • Katherine Harriet Monro
Places mentioned	• Meikle Allan, parish of Fearn • Maordom of Allan • Kingsmills, Inverness • Edinburgh • Allan House • battle of Falkirk • Old Grey Friars Churchyard • Toronto, Canada • Ilfracombe • Inverness • London • Lingfield, Surrey • Ireland • Kinmylies, Inverness • Calcutta • Punjaub, India • Fort Monckton, Portsmouth • Blackburn House, County of Ayr • Isle of Man

Timeline

Below is a list of events that are evidenced by this source. They should appear in the 'Timeline' section of articles about people and places involved in the events.

• 1898 - Alexander Mackenzie published the History of the Munros which included a section on the Monros of Allan. It appears to be an amalgamation of details from the Munro tree composed circa 1734 and Burke's Landed Gentry. It diverges in several ways from what is found in contemporary records.
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• 1898 - History of the Munros was published erroneously stating that Joseph Monro 6th of Allan married Elizabeth, only child of Captain David Ross of Balblair, parish of Edderton.
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Discussion

Mackenzie credits Alexander Ross, whose collection of genealogical matter relating to the Munros greatly helped and expedited the compilation of his work on the Munros. Ross wrote a series of articles on the Munros that were published in Celtic Magazine. He does not seem to have covered the Monro of Allan, but it's entirely possible that he had resources that he shared with Mackenzie.

R.W. Munro, editor of The Munro tree, published by the Clan Munro Association in 1978, was of the belief that Alexander Ross had as a resource the Teaninich copy of the manuscript history of the Munros. Munro also says that the Teaninich copy is not in the form of a tree, the order often confused, with several entries repeated and others omitted.

Maybe for this reason, Makenzie's genealogy is a closer match to the genealogy put forward by Burke in 1879. It appears that Makenzie copied Burke's genealogy, down to the birth dates, and then replaced just the 5th generation with what is found in the Munro manuscript. This just happens to be the generation pertaining to the daughter of David Ross of Balblair.

Even though most of what Burke wrote about the Monros of Allan is contradicted by contemporary documents, Mackenzie included it and even expanded on it, adding spouses names and some additional details.

Of the most interest to the Ross Surname Project is the claim by Burke that 'DAVID MONRO, m. Elizabeth Ross, dau. of the Laird of Balblair'.

Mackenzie stated that 'JOSEPH MONRO married Elizabeth, only child of Captain David Ross of Balblair, parish of Edderton'.

We do have a marriage contract, dated January 29, 1695, between Joseph Munro, son of the deceased David Munro, sometime of Wester Allan, on the one part, and David Ross of Balblair and Bessie Ross, his second daughter, on the other part. So Mackenzie was correct that it was Joseph, not David, who married the laird of Balbair's daughter, but he was wrong on several other points.

This David Ross of Balblair, Fearn Parish, father of Bessie, was not the same man as Captain David Ross of Little Daan, who lived near Balblair in Edderton Parish. And Bessie was his 2nd daughter, not his only child.

There are several other issues to note.

Burke states only that, "ANDREW MONRO was succeeded in the estate of Milntown by his eldest son, George Munro, and the lands of Allan and Allanmore he gave to his 2nd son WILLIAM MONRO, of Allan, b. 1535."

Mackenzie expands on this, saying that, "William received as his patrimony the lands of Meikle Allan, parish of Fearn, which, known as the Maordom of Allan, belonged at the Reformation wholly or in part to the Bishop of Ross, who includes them in the rental of the Bishopric returned between 1561 and 1566, to the Collector of Thirds. In 1569 James VI granted to Andrew Beg Munro, William's father, the escheat of all the goods upon the quarter lands of Meikle Allan, with the crops of that year, forfeited by John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, for treason and lesemajesty."

Chronologically, this is impossible.

According to Mackenzie himself, Andrew Monro of Milntown died before 1522. The Munro tree puts the date at October of 1519. This makes two things impossible. First, that he had a son born in 1535. Second, that he was being granted land by the king in 1569.

In 1569, King James VI granted in heritage to Andrew Monro of Newmoir the escheat of all the goods upon the quarter lands of Mekill Allane, with the crops of that year, which were forfeited by John bishop of Ross for treason and lesemajesty. This Andrew of Newmore was actually the grandson of Andrew of Milntown. He was the son of George who inherited Milntown. Andrew of Newmore also had inheritance of Milntown.

The elder Andrew of Milntown was known as the "Black Baron" or, sometimes, "Black Andrew". According to R.W. Munro, the soubriquet 'Black Andrew' was sometimes applied to his grandson, Andrew of Newmore. Could this have point part of the confusion? Or was this just an attempt to make the events match the narrative?

Either way, it does not appear that the Munros were in possession of any portion of Meikle Allan prior to 1569. It is also unclear how it was passed from Andrew of Newmore to William's line.

Very little evidence of William, son of Andrew of Milntown, exists. He is found acting as a witness in two documents, both times identified as the brother of George Monro of Davachcartie. In 1542, he is further identified as William Munro in Tilloch, indicating that he was not 'of Meikle Allan', even though his father supposedly left him the property 20 years earlier.

There was a William Munro living in Meikle Allan in 1565. There is still, possibly the same, William Munro living in Meikle Allan over 20 years later, in 1586. His father's name was Donald, possibly Donald Munro 1st of Tarlogie, grandson of Andrew of Milntown.

Among the manuscripts collected by David Laing, was a copy made by W. H. Blackie of a ‘MS relative to the family of Ross’. Evidence suggests that the manuscript was written in 1607. It includes the statement, "The second son of the said Mr. William Ross, called Walter Ross of Shandwick, had a tack of the King, the wester quarter of Meikle Earles Allan, quhilk now William Munro possesses."

So, in 1607, a William Munro was in possession of the wester quarter of Meikle Allan? Is this the same William who was living there in 1586? The son of Donald? And how did he come to be in possession of Wester Allan? There is no evidence among the 'Papers of the Monro Family of Allan' held by the National Records of Scotland.

Just 3 years later, we do find evidence of a Monro of Allan among existing documents. On July 3, 1610, is a discharge by George Monro of Tarrell in favour of Andrew Monro of Allan, for certain victual payable according to the terms of his bond.

From this generation on, we have evidence to support the genealogy. It differs in many ways from that laid out by Burke and Mackenzie.

The next thing that should be mentioned is that it was not an unbroken line of ownership between this Andrew Monro of Allan and David Monro, Writer to the Signet. As Mackenzie mentions, John Monro burdened the estate heavily with debt.

On April 1, 1692, is a contract of wadset, which is basically a mortgage, between John Monro, late heritable proprietor of the lands of Meikle Allan, on the one part, and Alexander Ross of Easterferne, on the other part, whereby the said John Monro, disponed to said Alexander Ross the wester quarter of the davoch lands of Mikle Allan. If the mortgage is not paid, Alexander of Easterfearn could take possession of the lands.

John's brother Joseph, husband of Bessie Ross, was never an owner of the wester quarter of Meikle Allan on which he lived. He had lease of them beginning in 1688. In 1708, Alexander of Easterfearn's son William had possession of the lands. Beginning in or around 1711, he began his attempts to evict Joseph. According to a memorial that appears to have been written or dictated by David Monro W.S., Easterfearn took the opportunity in 1715, while Joseph was away from home, to remove his family and his belongings from the property. The memorial tells the tale that the family was then forced out into the cold of winter and found shelter in a chaft house. It is said that Joseph Monro died shortly after this.

This Ross of Easterfearn family came to own the several portions of Meikle Allan, but also left them heavily in debt. David Munro began purchasing that debt not long after the death of William Ross of Easterfearn. Not long after, he was able to begin purchasing portions of Meikle Allan. In 1756, David was able to purchase three of the remaining quarters of Meikle Allan from Easterfearn's creditors.

Mackenzie states that David was only seventeen years old when his father died and that the estate was still loaded with wadsets and almost irretrievably involved in debt. He goes on to say that he devoted his whole life and energies to the redemption of the lands of his ancestors from the debts and other burdens in which he found them so deeply involved on his succession.

Mackenzie's suggestion that David Monro inherited the land and its debts is incorrect. It had long belonged to Ross of Easterfearn. And had never belonged to David's father. He was correct in his statement that he devoted his whole life and energies to the redemption of the lands of his ancestors. During his lifetime, he was not only able to gain possession of the entirety of Meikle Allan, not just the wester quarter owned by his uncle, but also the neighboring Balbair, which had been owned by his mother's family.

Timeline of documents

Below is the timeline of documents referenced in the footnotes.

• before 10 June 1531 - The second son of the said Mr. William Ross, called Walter Ross of Shandwick, had a tack of the King, the wester quarter of Meikle Earles Allan
• circa 1607 - The second son of the said Mr. William Ross, called Walter Ross of Shandwick, had a tack of the King, the wester quarter of Meikle Earles Allan, quhilk now William Munro possesses
• 25 December 1611 - Andreas Munro of Neoumoir died
• 1687 - Do., Joseph Munro broyr. german to Jon. Munro portioner of Mickle Allan to Geo. Cumenn mert. burgess of Inverness.
• circa 1690 - Heretors, Wadsetters, and liferenters within the shyre of Ross, Tarbet Parish, Jon Monro of Meikle Allan, Margaret Davies his mother, Geo. Stronach of Balblair, David Ross No^r. Pub^t. there, and Jon Stronach there
• 23 April 1692 - Heritable bond by Alexander Ross of Easter Fearne to David Ross of Belablaire
• 22 August 1693 - Instrument of Sasine in favour of David Ross of Belablaire of the south quarter lands of the lands of Mekelalane called the Summerweall quarter; following on heritable bond, dated 23 April 1692, by Alexander Ross of Easter Fearne to the said David Ross
• 29 January 1695 - Contract of Marriage between Joseph Munro, son of the deceased David Munro, sometime of Wester Allan, on the one part, and David Ross of Balblair and Bessie Ross, his second daughter, on the other part
• 18 September 1703 - George Munro in Muckle Allan, parish of Fearn, was invited to the funeral of Hugh Munro 4th of Teaninich
• 28 January 1710 - Disposition and Assignation by Andrew Ross of Balblair, as heir of the deceased David Ross of Balblair, his father, in favour of John Watson, merchant in Edinburgh, sometime bailie of Leith, of the sum of 1000 merks of principal and annualrent thereof in bond, dated 23 April 1704, by the deceased Alexander Ross of Easterfearn to the said deceased David Ross, and the Summerwell Quarter of the lands of Meikle Allan
• 5 July 1711 - Decreet of Adjudication at the instance of the said John Watson, against Andrew Ross, son and heir of the said deceased David Ross of Balblair, adjudging the lands of Balblair, in the parish of Fearn, the lands of Meikle Allan, and the lands of Ballon, in the parish of Logie Easter, to belong to said John Watson in satisfaction of bond dated 23 April 1704
• 12 October 1727 - Assignation by Bessie Ross, relict of Joseph Monro, sometime of Nether Allan, with consent of Alexander Stroanach, mason in Seafield, her present husband, in favour of Evan Baillie, writer in Inverness, of an annualrent on 1800 merks and half the conquest and moveables pertaining to the said Joseph Monro contained in and due to the said Bessie Ross by contract of marriage dated 29 January 1695, and also £84 disbursed by the said Bessie Monro on the funeral of said Joseph Monro
• 28 February 1728 - Extract Decreet of Constitution at the instance of Evan Baillie, writer in Inverness, against Andrew Ross, eldest son of the deceased Andrew Ross, who was eldest son of the deceased David Ross of Ballblair, as heir of line and provision to the said deceased David Ross, his grandfather, decerning said Andrew Ross to enter heir to his said grandfather, and make payment of 650 merks contained in marriage contract between Joseph Munro and Bessie Ross and later Assignation by Alexander Stronach, her current husband
• 25 January 1731 - Contract of Marriage between Joseph Munro, son of the deceased David Munro, sometime of Wester Allan, and Bessie Ross, daughter of David Ross of Balblair, registered B. of C. & S.
• 21 February 1735 - Letters of Horning at the instance of David Monro, W.S., against George, Earl of Cromarty, to be infeft in the lands of Balblair, in the parish of Fearn, following on Extract Decreet in action of adjudication at the instance of George Monro of Newmore against Andrew Ross of Balblair dated 25 June 1712, disposition and translation by George Monro of Newmore in favour of David Ross of Inverchasly of the said lands and teinds of Balblair dated 18 December 1728, and disposition and assignation by David Ross of Inverchassley in favour of David Munro, Writer in Edinburgh, of said lands and teinds of Belblair dated 15 September 1730
• 9 September 1756 - Death of Mr. Munro's mother at 5:00 in the afternoon. Mr. Donald Ross was acquainted immediately, so he wrote to Teaninich, Kindeace, Mr. Rose & David Ross the Clerk; there was a throwing burial especial of gentry, Mrs. Ross in Taine attended at Meikle Allan as a lund Lady for two days & two nights so she got all things to her mind.

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