Captain James Munro of Teaninich, R.N.

Biographical Summary

"VII. Captain James Munro, R.N., who about 1786 sold Wester Teaninich, Balachraggan, and Culcraggie, to Sir Hector Munro, VIII. of Novar, reserving the superiority. He married in 1768, Margaret, only child and heiress of Murdoch Mackenzie, V. of Ardross, by his wife Bathia, daughter of John Paton of Grandholme, Aberdeenshire, with issue —

• Hugh, his heir and successor.
• Murdoch, who assumed the name of Mackenzie, and succeeded his mother in the lands of Ardross, which he sold and then bought Dundonnell.
• Colonel Hector, who died in 1827, without issue.
• John, who succeeded his brother Hugh.
• Alexa, who died unmarried
• Catherine, who, born in 1775, married in 1793, Thomas Warrand of Warrandfield, now Lentran, County of Inverness, with issue.
• Bathia, who died in infancy.
• Aiexa, who died young.

Captain James, who died in May, 1788, was succeeded by his eldest son."

SOURCE: 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; Alexander Mackenzie; 1898; page 423-425