Major William Monro

Biographical Summary

"William Henry, who entered the army, and was a Captain in the 79th Cameron Highlanders and Major in the Galloway Rifle Volunteers. He married in 1843, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Abercromby, fifth Baronet, of Birkenbog and Forglen, Banffshire, with issue —

• Maria Elizabeth Janet, who married J. Stanley Rogerson, of the Priory, Liverpool, with issue.
• Sophia Frances Margaret, unmarried.
• Charlotte Mary Douglas, who on the 8th of December, 1875, married her first cousin, Sir James Colquhoun of Colquhoun and Luss, twelfth Baronet, Lord-Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire — whose mother was Jane, second daughter of Sir Robert Abercromby, above mentioned — with issue."

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 329