Martha Munro

Brief Life History of Martha

When Martha Munro was born on 5 August 1807, in Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Nathaniel Munroe, was 23 and her mother, Martha (Patty) Lewis, was 21. She died on 14 January 1830, at the age of 22.

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Family Time Line

Nathaniel Munroe
1784–1857
Martha (Patty) Lewis
1787–1822
Nathaniel Munroe
1804–1805
James Munro
1805–1822
Martha Munro
1807–1830
Nathaniel Munro
1810–
George Frederic Handell Munro
1812–
Sarah Munro
1814–1896
John Hancock Munro
1817–
Mary Munroe
1818–1839

Sources (1)

  • Martha Munro, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"

World Events (7)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

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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