Capt. Hector Munro^[1]

1796 - 1868  (71 years)

• Name	Hector Munro
  Prefix	Capt.
  Born	28 Nov 1796	Kirkton, , Scotland   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Military	1811	, Scotland   [3]
  Residence	1824	Orphir, , Orkney Islands, Scotland   [4]
  Residence	1830	Stromness, , Orkney Islands, Scotland   [5]
  Military	1838	, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada   [3]
  	Royal Newfoundland Veterans
  Residence	1855	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Occupation	1861	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Custom House Officer
  Residence	1861	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	United Presbyterian Church
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-254718P
  Died	12 Feb 1868	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Person ID	I254718	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Crooks,   b. Abt 1825, of, Niagara Co., Ontario ,   d. Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada
  Married	Abt 1846	Niagara Township, Lincoln Co., Ontario
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F16346	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Jessie Love Glen Rae,   b. Abt 1806, of, Stromness, , Orkney Islands, Scotland ,   d. Abt 1843, Amherstburg, Essex Co., Ontario  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Married	23 Dec 1824	Orphir, , Orkney Islands, Scotland   [4]
  Children	1. Love Jean C. Glen Munro   2. Captain George Granville Gower Munro,   b. 12 Dec 1827, Stromness, , Orkney Islands, Scotland ,   d. Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada   3. Eloise Wilhelmina Glen Rae Munro,   b. 1828, Stromness, , Orkney Islands, Scotland ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Margaret Glen Rae Munro,   b. 16 Jul 1830, Stromness, , Orkney Islands, Scotland ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Captain George Traill Monro,   b. 1836, , Scotland ,   d. Sep 1870, Atlantic Ocean  (Age 34 years)   6. Richard Honeyman Rae Munro,   b. 22 Dec 1841, , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ,   d. 20 Mar 1906, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 64 years)   7. Jessie Love Glen Rae Munro,   b. 1843, Amherstburg, Essex Co., Ontario ,   d. Sep 1870, Atlantic Ocean  (Age 27 years)   8. Georgina Munro,   b. 1849, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F41190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Captain Hector Munro, fourth son of Captain John of Kirkton, whose descendants now represent this family in the male line, was born on the 28th of November, 1796, and entered the army in 1811, in his sixteenth year, as an Ensign in the 89th Regiment. Two years later he was promoted Lieutenant in the 49th Regiment and carried the colours at Crysler's Farm - for which he received a medal - and was wounded. He was also present at Plattsburg and Lundy's Law. He was placed on half-pay on the 25th of March, 1817, from the 103rd Regiment, but on the 25th of December, 1838, was again placed on full pay as Lieutenant in the Royal Newfoundland Veterans, and when the Royal Canadian Rifles were formed he obtained a company in 1846. He soon after exchanged into the 2nd Regiment of Foot, or Queen's, and retired by sale of his commission in 1848. In 1859 he was appointed Surveyor of Customs at Galt, Ontario, an office which he held for the remainder of his life. He was for several years President of the Galt and Hamilton Highland Societies, and it was largely owing to his patriotic exertions that the fine and striking monument, on which his name appears as Hon. Secretary, was erected at Queenston to the memory of Sir Isaac Brock. Hector married, first, Marjory Geddes, with issue - 1. John Crookshank, who died at Grenada, of yellow fever, unmarried, on the 20th of August, 1838. 2. William, who married Frances Esson, with issue - Hector, who died at Chicago about 1892, married, but without issue - Arthur, now commanding a Battalion of the 35th Regiment ; Thomas ; William ; Frank ; Selina Louisa Ellie ; Leslie ; and Georgie, all married. Captain Hector married, secondly, Jessie Love Glen, daughter of John Rae, of Stromness, Orkney, with issue - 4. George Granville Gower, who served in the Royal Canadian Rifles, subsequently as Major in the 87th and 20th Regiments, and received the Indian Mutiny medal. He married, first, Annie, daughter of Captain Hamilton, Royal Canadian Rifles, with issue - i, George Granville Gower, who married a daughter of Dr Jenkins, and died without issue; 2, Georgina, who, on the 15th of June, 1870, married, first, John Bruce, barrister-at-law, with issue - Hector Milne, born on the 22nd of October, 1872 ; Alexander Stuart, born on the 29th of January, 1875 ; Maggie Glen ; and Isabella Kate, She married, secondly, on the 17th of April, 1880, George Hunt, Inspector, Standard Life Insurance Company, with issue - George Allen Devere, born on the nth of November, 1881 ; William Henry, born on the 14th of September, 1883 ; Ella Devere; Anna Pennafather ; and Constance Hamilton. 3, Anna E. Jane ; 4, Jessie ; 5, Gower ; and 6, Emma. Major George Granville Gower Munro married, secondly, Emily, daughter of Alexander Grey, Trinidad, West Indies, with issue - 7, Emily Brenda, who married Gerrard King, with issue - a son and daughter. 5. John Rae, banker, Hamilton, Ontario, and first pensioner of the Merchant Bank of Canada. He died, unmarried, on the 13th of April, 1886. 6. Hugh Andrew Johnstone, drowned at Stromness when only three years old. 7. Another Hugh Andrew Johnstone, drowned at the same place at about the same age. 8. George Traill, appointed to an Ensigncy in the 67th Regiment, and afterwards transferred with the rank of Lieutenant to the Royal Canadian Rifles. When the latter regiment was disbanded in 1869, he was placed on halfpay with the rank of Captain. He married Mary, third daughter of George Smyth, Belfast, and on the 8th of September, 1870, sailed along with her, their recently born child, and his widowed sister, Jessie Glen Rae Munro, who three years before lost her husband, Alexander William Mackenzie, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander William Webster Mackenzie, of the Lochend family, on their way to Britain, but they never reached their destination. They embarked at Montreal for Liverpool in the iron ship " W. H. Hazelden." She was spoken to on the 18th of September by an eastward bound vessel in latitude 47 N., and longitude 47 W., but has never since been heard of. 9. Richard Honeyman Rae, barrister-at-law, Toronto, who was born in 1840; and in 1881 married Edith, daughter of James Barnum, The Poplars, Grafton, Ontario, without issue. 10. Margaret Glen Rae, who married Frederick C. Grome, C.E., who died some years ago. 11. Love Jean C. Glen, who died in infancy. 12. Eloise W. G. Rae, who married William B. Walters, V.S. Royal Artillery, now Lieutenant-Colonel Veterinary Surgeon Walters, C.B., retired, with issue - Ellen Elizabeth, and Jessie Rae Munro. 13. Jessie Love Glen Rae, who married Lieutenant William Webster Mackenzie, of the lOOth Regiment, without issue. A few months after their marriage he died in Canada of an aneurism of the Aorta, on the 16th of October, 1867, and she was drowned three years after, as already stated. Captain Hector married, thirdly, Margaret Ramsay, daughter of John Crooks, Niagara, Canada, without issue, and died at Galt, Ontario, on the 12th of February, 1868, aged 71 years, where his widow, now deceased, survived him for several years. Alexander MacKenzie, History of the Munros of Fowlis with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which are added those of Lexington and New England, Inverness: A. & W. MacKenzie 1898 ____________________ Col. Munro is our old friend Hector Munro, popularly known as Capt. Munro because he retired with that rank from the British Army - 2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment - before settling in Hamilton Ont. In 1853 he took a commission in the sedentary militia, as Major in the 8th Wentworth Battalion. Then, moving to Galt as a customs officer, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 5th Waterloo Battalion, based in Wellesley Township (General Order 15 May 1856). Attached is an obituary in The Volunteer Review and Military and Naval Gazette of 24 Feb. 1868, reprinted from the Hamilton Spectator. There is also a retrospective article about Hector Munro in the Galt Reporter 13 Dec. 1912 (centennial of War of 1812), but I don't have a digital copy. Len Curchin email 2019

  
  

• Sources

  [S5] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - 1858-1869 Marriage Register. A. W. W. McKenzie Birth Place: Grenada, West Indies Residence: Galt Age: 24 Estimated birth year: abt 1843 Father Name: Alexander Mother Name: Selina Martha Spouse Name: Jessie G. K. Munro Spouse's Age: 24 Spouse Birth Place: Amherstburg Spouse residence: Galt Spouse Father Name: Hecter Spouse Mother Name: Jessie L. Rae Marriage Date: 1 Jan 1867 Marriage Location: Galt [S1838] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1861, Galt 1861 Div. 3 Page 45. [S1984] Book - History of the Munros of Fowlis with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which are added those of Lexington and New England, pg 542. [S1788] Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910, indexing project (batch) number: M11023-4 system origin: Scotland-ODM source film number: 990506. Hector Munro married Jess Rae 23 Dec 1824 Orphir, Orkney, Scotland [S1609] Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, indexing project (batch) number: C11030-4 system origin: Scotland-ODM source film number: 990515. name: Margaret Glen Rae Munro gender: Female baptism/christening date: 22 Jul 1830 baptism/christening place: STROMNESS,ORKNEY,SCOTLAND birth date: 16 Jul 1830 : father's name: Hector Munro mother's name: Jessie Rae

  
  

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  Military - 1811 - , Scotland Residence - 1824 - Orphir, , Orkney Islands, Scotland Married - 23 Dec 1824 - Orphir, , Orkney Islands, Scotland Residence - 1830 - Stromness, , Orkney Islands, Scotland Residence - 1855 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Custom House Officer - 1861 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - United Presbyterian Church - 1861 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 12 Feb 1868 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth