MUNRO, Lieutenant, Royal Veteran Battalion Hugh

1761 - 1837  (76 years)

• Name	MUNRO, Hugh  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]
  Title	Lieutenant, Royal Veteran Battalion
  Born	6 Jan 1761	Nairn, Nairnshire, Scotland   [1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14]
  Christened	18 Jan 1761	Ross and Cromarty, Scotland   [1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14]
  Gender	Male
  Died	20 Jan 1837	Westminster, London, England   [2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 16]
  	9 Vine Street
  Buried	27 Jan 1837	Westminster, London, England   [2, 3, 5, 10]
  	St Margaret's Churchyard
  Person ID	I8983	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	MUNRO, John,   b. 1730, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland ,   d. Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	MACKENZIE, Mary,   b. 1735, Scotland ,   d. Scotland
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F6191	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	DAVIS, Jane,   b. 10 Jun 1761, Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 4 Dec 1840, Westminster, London, England  (Age 79 years)
  Married	29 Jun 1786	Westminster, London, England   [12, 17, 18]
  	St Margaret's Church
  Children	1. MUNRO, Thomas,   b. 3 May 1787, St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, England ,   d. 19 Sep 1846, St Margaret's Church, Westminster, England  (Age 59 years)  [natural]   2. MUNRO, Alexander,   b. 7 Jun 1791, Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom ,   d. Oct 1853, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom  (Age 62 years)  [natural]   3. MUNRO, Charlotte Jane,   b. 11 Feb 1796, Westminster, London, England ,   d. 25 Jan 1799, St Marys, Isles of Scilly, England  (Age 2 years)  [natural]   4. MUNRO, Robert Manners,   b. 23 Aug 1798, St Marys, Isles of Scilly, England ,   d. 22 Jan 1799, St Marys, Isles of Scilly, England  (Age 0 years)  [natural]   5. MUNRO, Anna,   b. 9 Feb 1800, St Marys, Isles of Scilly, England ,   d. 27 Jan 1877, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 76 years)  [natural]   6. MUNRO, Robert Douglas,   b. 30 Jun 1804, Westminster, London, England ,   d. Apr 1833, Westminster, London, England  (Age 28 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F2411	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		Lt Hugh Munro
  		UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960

  
  

• Notes

  Residence 18 August, 1796 • Islands of Scilly As an Ensign placed in the Scilly Isles with the Independent Company of Invalids under Captain Bowen. Biography Stationed with the military at the Scilly Isles around 1800. Fought at Walcheren in the Netherlands in 1809? Reported in the London Gazette of 17 Feb 1795: Transfer from 78th Foot Regiment to Independent Company of Invalids at Hull. According to research by the late John Locke Munro Hull from Tasmania, as reported in the Clan Munro newsletter "It is likely that Hugh Munro came from Ross-shire, as he began his army service with Lord McLeod’s Highlanders (2nd Bn. 73rd Regt. of Foot, Later 71st Regiment) which was raised in 1778 and recruited much of its strength in the old Ross-shire estates of the Mackenzies of Cromartie. Hugh served with this regiment for six years and was wounded in the leg during the siege of Gibraltar, 1782-83. He then served for 13 years with the 3rd Regiment of foot guards from which he was appointed Quartermaster of the Light Infantry Bn. Foot Guards. He then served with Captain Henry Bowen’s Company of Invalids on Sicily, returned to London where he served with the 5th Royal Veteran Bn and is believed to have been an officer of the guard at the tower of London. Hugh married Jane Davis at St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster in 1786. They had a son Thomas in 1787, at least two children who died in Sicily and a daughter Anna born in 1800." However, in the first list of commissioned officers, approved by the king, given in "Part One The 78th Highlanders or Ross-Shire Buffs" a lieutenant Hugh Munro is listed as Captain of the Invalids. This concurs with the London Gazette report of his transfer to the 78th. "In 1793, Francis Humberstone Mackenzie, heir-male of the family, and afterwards Lord Seaforth, raised the present 78th Highlanders, and a second battalion in the following year, when nearly all the men enlisted were from his own or his clansmen’s estates in Ross-shire and the Lewis. Another second battalion was subsequently raised in 1804,when, Lord Seaforth being absent as Governor of Demerara, his personal influence was not of so much avail. However, again the greater part of the men were recruited on the estates of the clan by his brother-in-law, Colonel Alexander Mackenzie of Belmaduthy (who afterwards adopted the additional surname of Fraser, on succeeding to the Castle Fraser estates in right of his mother) and Colonel J. R. Mackenzie of Suddie. Several Fencible, Militia, and local Volunteer regiments were also raised among the Mackenzies at the end of the last and beginning of the 19th century." This would seem to strengthen the assumption that Hugh was from Ross-shire in Scotland. Further in the above history it lists a Captain Hugh Munro as injured in 4 November 1794 at a sortie near Nimeguen in the Netherlands where the French were erecting battlements. A National Army Museum reference to some property of a Captain Hugh Munro of the 78th who was at least partially blinded gives a date of birth in 1768. A search of Scottish birth records on familysearch.org shows there were at least three Hugh Munros born that year in and around the Inverness, Moray and Nairn areas of Scotland. Whereas MacKenzie clan history shows a lot of Munro clan in and around Uig, Lewis, ie the outer Hebrides. The National Archives of Kew give him as serving in the "Regiment: 49th and 78th Regiment. Date of Service: 1790." The only thing that can be known for certain is that Hugh would have had close ties with the MacKenzie clan and by default the Fraser clan as well. It is notable that he named a son, who died in infancy, after (possibly) General Robert Manners. Manners and Francis MacKenzie, 1st Baron of Seaforth, were both members of parliament. Whether they were friends or acquaintances of Hugh is open to speculation. An account of Hugh Munro’s injury in battle (extract from http://www.electricscotland.com/history/scotreg/rosshire/ross1.htm) At this juncture the 78th and 80th reached Flushing, and found that Lord Mulgrave was ordered home. They therefore embarked with the 79th, 84th, and 85th, to join the Duke’s army. Early in October the 78th lauded at Tuil, and proceeded to occupy the village of Rossem in the Bommeler-Waart, or Island of Bommel, where they first saw the enemy, scarcely one hundred yards distant, on the opposite side of the river. Here, through the negligence of a Dutch Emigrant Officer, a sad accident occured. This person hearing voices on the bank of the river, and dreading a surprise, ordered his gunners to fire an iron 12-pounder, loaded with case shot, by which discharge the officer of the day, Lieut. Archibald Christie, 78th, and a sergeant, were seriously wounded while visiting a sentry. They both recovered, but were unable to serve again; strange to say, the sentry escaped untouched. While quartered here, by a tacit understanding, the sentries exchanged no shots, but it was observed that the French frequently fired howitzers with effect when the troops were under arms, and that, before the fire commenced, the sails of a certain windmill were invariably put in motion. The owner was arrested, found guilty as a spy, and condemned to death, but was reprieved through the lenity of Lieut.-Colonel Mackenzie, the commandant, with the full understanding that, on a repetition of the offence, the last penalty would be enforced. About the end of October the 78th proceeded to Arnheim, the Duke of York’s headquarters, and thence, by a night march, to Nimeguen, against which place the French were erecting batteries, On the 4th of November a sortie was made, when the 78th was for the first time under fire, and did such execution with the bayonet, as to call forth the highest encomiums from experienced and veteran officers. The loss of the regiment in this engagement was Lieutenant Martin Cameron (died of his wounds) and seven men, killed; wounded, Major Malcolm, Captain Hugh Munro, Captain Colin Mackenzie, Lieutenant Bayley, 4 sergeants, and 56 rank and file. On the 6th the regiment marched from Nimeguen to Arnheim, and finally to Dodewaart on the Waal, where they were brigaded with the 12th, the 33rd, under Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Wellesley (afterwards Duke of Wellington), and the 42nd under Major Dickson. The General going home on leave, the command devolved on Colonel Alexander Mackenzie of the 78th, who, however, still remained with his regiment. On the 2nd of December the Duke of York quitted Arnheim for England, and handed over his command to Lieut.-General Harcourt.

  
  

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