Sir Hugh Munro, 8th Baronet

[1] In 1794 whilst in London Sir Hugh entered into what Mackenzie describes as an irregular union with Jane, daughter of Alexander Law, a native of Aberdeenshire.

[3] Sir Hugh and his wife Jane had an only daughter Mary Seymour Munro who was born 14 November 1796 in London.

[4] According to Mackenzie the separation of the title and the estates would have been a serious matter to the Munros of Culrain, who as would-be chiefs of the clan would be almost landless and as such it can be readily believed that interested persons were spreading reports that Mary was illegitimate and that her parents' marriage in England several years after her birth would not have the same effect of legitimization in Scotland.

[5] This judgment was appealed to the House of Lords, but in 1840 they reversed it on the grounds that Sir Hugh the father, never lost his Scottish domicile and so his marriage in England to the mother of Mary after her birth, was treated as if celebrated in Scotland where the marriage legalizes the birth of all children previously born out of wedlock.

[9][10] Mackenzie believed George had removed all of his grandfather Sir Harry's family papers and valuable manuscripts to his sister's residence in Perry Hill, Sydenham where they were destroyed.

[9] In fact, this series of legal documents concerning the Munro of Foulis family from the year 1299 to 1823 had been put into the hands of his solicitor Robert Jamieson.

The missing manuscripts were "discovered" in the successor firm's Glasgow office in the 1930s and published as the Calendar Writs of Munro of Foulis [11] in 1938,[12] and 1940.