MONRO, DAVID [SSNE 3115]
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David Monro was the son of John Munro of Fyrish (Ross-shire). Monro served in the Danish-Norwegian army in 1626 as a lieutenant. If he is the David Monro who Colonel Robert Monro [SSNE 94] offered for promotion over a Frenchman in Swedish service, he was his cousin. Gustav II Adolf is reported to have said of Robert Monro's suggestion ‘what shall I think? Hee would place his own Cozen, and not obey my Orders’. David was burnt at Eckernförde in 1628. He was eventually promoted captain in 1632 and major by 1634. In 1632, Captain David instructed his brother John Munro to pay Robert Munro of Assynt and his son Hector ‘certane soumes of mo[n]ey’. This enabled Captain David to purchase the lands of Kildermorie and others in the parish of Alness in Ross-shire. John made the payment to Assynt in June 1632 when David appears as Captain David Munro of Kildermorie. The clan genealogy has ‘Major David Munro slain in France without succession’.
Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1629/14,16,18; 1630/22-28; 1632/28; R. Monro, His Expedition with a worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keyes (2. vols., London, 1637), I, p.51 and II, p.12 and List of the Scottish Officers in Chiefe; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.125; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p.186; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.26; R. Gordon, A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 450; J. Mackay, An Old Scots Brigade (Edinburgh, 1885), pp. 145, 204; NRS, Particular Register of Sasines for Inverness, Ross, Sutherland and Cromarty, 1st ser., 1617-1660, RS37/5, fos. 11v-12r; The Munro Tree: A Genealogy and Chronology of the Munros of Foulis and Other Families of the Clan, ed. R. W. Munro (Edinburgh, 1978), Q3.
This record was kindly updated by Dr Thomas Brochard
Service record
- DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT
- Arrived 1626-03-15, as LIEUTENANT
- Departed 1628-10-04, as LIEUTENANT
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, MACKAY'S REGIMENT
- Arrived 1629-01-01, as LIEUTENANT
- Departed 1632-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, MACKAY'S/ROBERT MONRO
- Arrived 1633-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1634-12-31, as MAJOR
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY