Brief Life History of Peter James
When Peter James Munro was born in 1901, in Hotham West, Victoria, Australia, his father, Peter Munro, was 31 and his mother, Kate Ellen Montgomery, was 24. He died in 1978, in Victoria, Australia, at the age of 77.
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Parents and Siblings
1870–1934 Male
1877– Female
Siblings (3)
1901–1978 Male
1904–1926 Female
1906–1953 Female
World Events (8)
1901
Age 0
1901
Age 0
1939
Age 38
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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