When Kennedy Munro was born on 29 May 1846, in West River, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, William Munro, was 32 and his mother, Helen Henderson, was 30. He married Emma Jane Crowe on 31 January 1871, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Five Islands, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871 and Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1885. He died on 10 January 1890, in Blue Rapids, Marshall, Kansas, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Blue Rapids, Marshall, Kansas, United States.
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In 1848, Nova Scotia became the first self-governing colony in the British Empire.
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
Historical Boundaries: 1860: Marshall, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Marshall, Kanas, United States
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic Rothach ‘man from Ro’. According to tradition which may be substantially correct, the ancestors of the Munros came from Ireland, from the foot of the river Roe in Derry, whence the name Bun-rotha, giving Mun-rotha by eclipsis of b after the preposition in’. See also Monroe , compare Munroe .
Irish (Meath): variant of Mulroy .
History: This (see 1 above) is the name of a Scottish clan with an ancestral seat at Foulis Castle, near Evanton, Ross-shire.
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