John Munro, 3rd of Fyrish

Biographical Summary

"III. John Munro, who married, first, Helen, daughter of Hugh Munro, I. of Teaninich, with issue, among others, three sons —

• Hugh, his heir and successor.
• David, who received from his father the lands of Kildermorie. He entered the army, rose to the rank of Major, and was killed in battle in France before 1653, for in that year his brother Hugh was served heir to him in the lands of Kildermorie and Achnagullan, and in a quarter of the town and lands of Fyrish, in the Barony of Delnie and Earldom of Ross. He married Agnes Spencer, without issue. On the 14th of June, 1649, Hugh Ross, III. of Little Tarrel, Thomas Ross, II. of Priesthill, and John Ross, I. of Aldie, are witnesses to a precept of sasine in favour of Major David Munro and Agnes Spencer, his spouse, " of the lands of Contulliche in the barony of Foulis, and the parish of Alness."
• John, who married Margaret, daughter of the Rev. Robert Munro, minister of Urquhart, and Treasurer of the Cathedral Chapter of the Diocese of Ross, third son of John Munro, III. of Coul and II. of Balconie, with issue — an only daughter, who died in infancy. He married, secondly, Finguala Ross, without issue. There is a sasine on a charter by "John Munro of Contullich to Fingoll Ross, his spouse, of a life-rent in the lands of Wester Contullich in the barony of Foullis," dated the ist of February, 1626.

He died about 1640, and 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 432-433