MONRO, ROBERT [SSNE 7847]

Surname

MONRO

First name

ROBERT

Title/rank

SERGEANT

Nationality

SCOT

Region

CULCRAGGIE

Text source

Robert Monro, son of Hector Monro of Culcraggie, sergeant. He accompanied chief Robert Monro of Foulis to perform military service on the continent during the Thirty Years’ War. He died of the plague in Brandenburg in July 1631.

R. Monro, His Expedition with a worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keyes (London, 1637), II, p. 47; The Munro Tree: A Genealogy and Chronology of the Munros of Foulis and Other Families of the Clan, ed. R. W. Munro (Edinburgh, 1978), M/35; A. Ross, Ross-shire Past and Present: Ecclesiastical, Antiquarian, and Traditional Notes (Invergordon, 1887?), p. 214.

Service record

SWEDEN, MONRO OF FOULIS, BRANDENBURG

Arrived 1630-01-01, as SERGEANT

Departed 1631-07-31, as SERGEANT

Capacity NCO, purpose MILITARY