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Note: little is known about Anna Jacoba Labadie's husband .William Munro. Two name-sakes living in the same period in the same region, are well known but their biographies do not mention Anna Jacoba:
- Dr William Munro [1751/2-1832]
- Dr William Munro of Berbice [1799-1847].
Since it is theoretically possible that either had a relationship with her resulting in the birth of Maria Rosa, their abridged biographies are included below.
"Dr William Munro [1751/2-1832]
In May 1793 Dr William Munro, described as the former partner of Dr Colin Chisholm, was intending to sail from Grenada to Demerara, but was prevented by the presence of fever on the ship. By 1798 he owned Plantation Foulis, a 500-acre cotton plantation on the east sea coast of Demerara, named after a Munro estate in Ross-shire [Scotland]. His daughter Elizabeth, known as Eliza, was born in Berbice c1799.
In 1801 he joined with Lord Seaforth, Fraser of Belladrum, Fraser of Reelig, Anthony Somersall and Archibald Alves in buying several lots of land from the Dutch Society of Berbice. During the negotiations Munro and Alves travelled to Holland to complete the purchase. Munro’s allocation from this purchase became plantations Foulis and Novar. [Seaforth papers] It is probably this William Munro who, in November 1801, visited the manse at Kiltearn along with the Demerara planter Labalmondiere [NLS Ms 19331 f65 Anne Robertson, Kiltearn, to her daughter Christian (Mrs Watson), Crantit, Orkney, 23 Nov 1801].
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By 1816 a William Munro owned Plantation Novar in Demerara. In 1816 he raised a mortgage on Novar : By the Honble. Wm. Munro, a First Mortgage on Plantation Novar, situated on the East Sea Coast of the River Demerary, with all the buildings, cultivation, and a number of One Hundred and Sixty Negroes - in favour of Messrs. Thomas Daniel and Sons, of Bristol. [Royal Gazette]
In 1817 it was announced that ‘Wm. Munro will transport one hundred negroes from plantation Novar, in Abary, to the colony of Berbice, (names to be seen at this office,) being part of the gang on the said estate, in 14 days from Jan. 1.’
By 1823 Foulis had become a sugar plantation and complaints had been made to the Fiscal about Dr Munro: The Negroes of Plantation Foulis complain of Dr. Munro, their owner, that they are made to work in the boiling house from eleven or twelve o'clock at night, till eight or nine the next evening;. They complain also of want of food. The fiscal proceeded to the estate, where he says he ascertained that the complaints were in a large measure groundless, but that some irregularities were chargeable on the overseers, who were admonished, and threatened with dismissal if they were not more attentive in future. [Fiscal’s Reports]
At about the same time J.C. Cheveleyley referred in his diary to 'Dr Munro, an old Scotch physician and planter on the Berbice side' [Journal, Vol 2 p164 c.1824].
'W Munro Esq of Berbice' died of cholera in London in 1832 [Gentleman's Magazine]. In his will [Prob11/1803] he refers to his daughter Elizabeth (or Eliza, born 1799 in Berbice), the wife of Thomas Ansell. They had been married, with William present, on 26 September 1821 in London. He also left a legacy to Mary Munro, his niece Jessy Smith, and his grand-niece Helen Ross. Jessy had travelled south with him from Kiltearn in October 1800, after he had been on a visit to the area [NLS MS 19331 f57 Anne Robertson, Kiltearn, to her daughter Christian (Mrs Watson), Crantit, Orkney, 24 Oct 1800].
In July 1830, R F Munro Esq, son of Donald Munro of Alness, died at Plantation Foulis 'after a very short illness' [Scotsman, 30 Oct 1830]. Ronald F Munro, born in July 1801 [OPR 057/00 0010 0043], was the son of Donald Munro and Johanna Christie at Novar, Ross-shire."
"Dr William Munro (Berbice) [1799-1847]
Distinguish from Dr William Munro [1751-1832]. For family tree see William Munro MD on Ancestry (subscription required)
Dr William Munro was born about 1799, probably in Edinburgh, and died in Poplar, Middlesex, on 12 December 1847. In his will [PROB 11: 1848-1849, Piece 2085: Vol. 19, Quire Numbers 901-936 (1848)] made in 1839 he is described as ‘formerly of the colony . . . of Berbice and currently of Viewmount, Inverness’. He had an only brother, Hugh Munro, born in Edinburgh in 1803 and living there in 1839, and William may also have been born there. Hugh had come home from Guyana and was the tenant of the farm of Assynt in Kiltearn, before returning briefly to Berbice in 1836.
William and Hugh were heirs to their uncle, George Munro of plantation Alness, in Berbice.
William married Eliza Katz [born in Berbice c. 1799], with whom he had four children, Eliza, William, Alexander, and Christiana Mary. Eliza Katz was the illegitimate daughter of Wolfert Katz, a Jewish merchant from Bohemia, who had risen from being a pedlar to become the largest plantation owner in Berbice.
Eliza may have been educated in England, like her sister Susannah, and in 1817 she married a James Philo in London, with whom she had a daughter Helen. About 1822 (named as Mrs Philo) she became owner of a share of plantation Philadelphia, and 173 slaves, along with her brothers or half-brothers George and William Katz [Slave Registers].
Neither the date nor the place of her marriage to William Munro is known. They lived at Viewmount, Culduthel Road, Inverness (opposite what is now the BBC Studios), from about 1830 until the mid-1840s, and attended St John’s Episcopalian chapel where ‘in the gallery might . . . be seen the kind faces of Doctor and Mrs Munro, Viewmount, and the elegant forms and radiant eyes of their daughters’ [Isabel Harriet G. Anderson, Inverness before Railways (Inverness, 1885), 108].
Munro's two daughters later married officers who had been stationed at Fort George, Captain (later Colonel) Shervington and his friend Captain Wragge.
Eliza and her husband inherited from Wolfert Katz at his death in 1836. In 1843 Dr Munro made a trip to Guiana and kept a journal which can be read online in the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection: Diary of a voyage from Inverness, via London, to Demerara. October 14-December 15, 1843. The journal refers to a number of family members and Highland Scots associated with Berbice including:
His daughter Eliza, to whom as he left England he gave a sovereign to buy toys for 'dear little Mary' and her brothers [Alexander & Hugh].
Mr Reach (Roderick Reach) by then in London
Mrs Warren (Elizabeth Katz), Munro's Berbice-born sister-in-law; and her son Wolfert Warren (appointed chief mate on the Mary, sailing for Berbice, but because he was 'amusing himself' the vessel sailed without him)
Mrs Ansell (Elizabeth/Eliza Munro), the Berbice-born daughter of the other Dr William Munro (1751/2-1832), who asked for news of their property, plantation Fowlis; and her son William Ansell (who inherited Berbice property)
'My dear Hugh' - possibly his brother Hugh Munro (1803-1878) - who accompanied him to the ship
In 1850 the Administrator General took possession of ‘one sixth of Philadelphia, property of Eliza Munro, widow of William Munro, on the grounds that she is absent without an attorney or agent to represent her’. [London Gazette]
In 1871 Eliza was living in Maryon Road, Woolwich with six grandchildren, born to her daughter Mary Christiana and Captain Wragge, and in 1881 she was at the same address, aged 84, with two grandchildren. She died the following year."
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