Hector Munro, 1st of Fyrish

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Biographical Summary

"I. Hector Munro, second son of Robert Munro, fourteenth Baron of Fowlis, was the founder of this distinguished family, the history and genealogy of which derive enhanced interest from the fact that, failing the male line of the present Munros of Fowlis, the heir male of this family would succeed to the Baronetcy. Hector received as his patrimony the lands of Fyrish, Contullich, and Kildermorie, in the parish of Alness. He is said by the Munro genealogists to have married Helen, daughter of Hector Roy Mackenzie, I. Baron of Gairloch. But this could not have been the case. There is no trace of such a daughter in the Gairloch genealogies, and Hector Roy died at a very advanced age in 1528, whereas a sasine to this supposed daughter, Helen, is dated nearly eighty years later, and is in favour of Helen Munro, on a charter by Hector Munro of Kildermorie, dated the 15th of December, 1607. By his wife Hector had issue —

• William, his heir and successor.
• John, who succeeded his brother William.
• George, who married Janet, daughter of Hector Munro, III. of Kiltearn, and went to the German Wars with his Chief, the " Black Baron." He left issue, among others, Hector, who accompanied his father to Germany, where he attained the rank of Captain, and acquired an estate in that country by marriage with a German lady, by whom he had issue — Charles-Frederick-Von Munro, who, like his father, entered the army and became a Major in the Regiment of Alsace. He commanded the two battalions of Burgundy in the expedition of March, 1708, which sailed from Dunkirk under Admiral Fourbin for the purpose of exciting an insurrection in Scotland in favour of James VIII., known as the Chevalier ; but nothing more is known of him or his descendants, if he left any.
• Hugh, who married, first, a Miss Ross, with issue — one son, Hugh, of whom there is no further trace. He married, secondly, Esther Katharine, daughter of the Rev. Robert Ross, minister of Alness from 1588 to 1630, without issue.
• Janet, who about 1578 married Neil Mackay of Achness, second son of the Clan-Abrach branch of the Mackays, with issue — at least four sons and one daughter.

Hector 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 431-432