Donald Munro, 1st of Tarlogie

Biographical Summary

"I. Donald Munro, first of this family, was the second son of George Monro, IV. of Milntown. He married, first, Christian, daughter of Donald Ross of Nonikiln, with issue —

• George, his heir and suecessor.
• Hugh, to whom James V. in 1580 granted for his maintenance at school for seven years the Chaplainry of Tarlogie, not exceeding £20 yearly; and in 1586 the same King renewed the grant. Hugh married Catherine, daughter of John Ross of Ballochskead, with issue — John and Donald, both of whom settled, married, and left issue in Sutherlandshire, but nothing more is known of their descendants.

Donald married, secondly, Janet, daughter of John Denoon, V, of Cadboll, with issue —

• David, who studied for the Church at St Andrews University, where he obtained his M.A. degree on the 21st of July, 1621. Licensed in due course, he was early in 1628 appointed minister of Tarbat, and soon after was translated to the parish of Kiltearn. He was a member of the Generel Assemblies of 1638 and 1639, but was deposed by the Presbytery of Dingwall in 1648, and his deposition was confirmed by the Supreme Court of the Church in July of the following year, the cause probably being his "compliance in Montrose and his rebellion," He appears to have settled after his deposition at Tain, for under date of 30th May, 1649, there is a sasine on a charter by Thomas Ross of Priesthill, with consent of Mr David Munro, minister of Tain, and Donald Munro, eldest lawful son to the late George Munro of Tarlogie, to Alexander Gray of Ospisdale, of the town and lands of Tarlogie. There is a precept of sasine, dated the 12th of November, 1628, in favour of Mr David Munro, described as minister of Kiltearn, in part of the lands of Tarlogie. Sasine follows the same day, and he has another in which he is similarly designated on the 15th of June, 1630. He married Florence, daughter of Andrew Munro, I. of Limlair, with issue — Donald, Robert, John, and Hugh, a Writer to the Signet, all of whom died unmarried. He had also several daughters, but what became of them is not known.

Donald 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 302