& Jane CHRISTIE (nee WHITTLE) 1798-1842
& Catherine 'Kate' POWER c1810-1889
"Crawford River" & "Bassetts" Pastoral Runs, Hotspur, Victoria, Australia
Henry MONRO b. 1810 Edinburgh, Sct, son of Professor Alexander MONRO (who held the chair of Anatomy & Surgery at Edinburgh University) and Maria Agnes CARMICHAEL - SMYTHE arrived in Sydney in 1834 on the barque 'James'. Henry MONRO took up the "Crawford River" Pastoral Run at Hotspur in 1843 and later held the nearby "Bassetts" Pastoral Run until 1862.
Henry MONRO married Jane CHRISTIE (nee WHITTLE) a fellow passenger on the 'James' in 1834, at Melbourne in 1841 but she died in 1842. He next married Catherine 'Kate' POWER, daughter of Alexander / James POWER and Ellen O'DONNELL at Portland in 1846.
Henry MONRO left Australia and had land in Argentina before returning to Europe. He died in 1869 in Malaga, Spain and his widow Catherine died in 1889 in London.
Henry MONRO and Catherine 'Kate' POWER had 10 known children...
- Alexander MONRO b. 1847, "Crawford Station", Hotspur, Vic;
- David MONRO b. 1849, Portland, Vic;
- Henry Carmichael Smythe MONRO b. 1851, chr 1852 Digby, Vic;
- James Carmichael MONRO b. 1854, d. 1855, Portland, Vic;
- Isabella Catherine MONRO b. 1855, chr 1855, Digby, Vic;
- George MONRO b. abt 1857, _______?
- Charles Carmichael MONRO b. 1860, at sea, d. 1929, London, England, m. Mary Caroline O'HAGEN.
(Major General Sir Charles Carmichael MONRO, 1st Baronet, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G. who took over the Dardenelles campaign from Sir Ian HAMILTON and supervised the successful evacuation of ANZAC in 1915.) - Harriet Elizabeth MONRO b. abt 1862, _______?, m. John TROUTBECK
- dau. 3 MONRO b. abt 1865, _______?
- dau. 4 MONRO b. abt 1865, _______?
