Captain George Traill Monro

1836 - 1870  (34 years)

• Name	George Traill Monro
  Prefix	Captain
  Born	1836	, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1861	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	English Church
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-254728
  Died	Sep 1870	Atlantic Ocean   [2]
  Person ID	I254728	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Capt. Hector Munro,   b. 28 Nov 1796, Kirkton, , Scotland ,   d. 12 Feb 1868, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	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   [3]
  Family ID	F41190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary,   d. Sep 1870, Atlantic Ocean
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F60559	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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. 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 ____________________ Died Lost at sea, in the ship "W. H. Hazelson" in September of October, 1870, Captain George Traill Munro, (unattached, lat R. C. Rifles) son of the late Captain Hector Munro, (H. M. 2nd Regiment) aged 34 years; and Mary his wife. Also, Maggie G. R. their infant daughter. Also, Jessie L. G. R. McKenzie, widow of the late Alexander W. McKenzie, 100th Regiment, and daughter of the late Captain Hector Munro. Unidentified newspaper clipping.

  
  

• Sources

  [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

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1836 - , Scotland Residence - English Church - 1861 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Sep 1870 - Atlantic Ocean  = Link to Google Earth