Hugh Munro of Limlair, Carriacou

Hugh Munro of Limlair estate Grenada (1729-1778), also probably the man of the same name who was an early purchaser of land in Tobago.

1. There is a monumental inscription recorded in several guidebooks to Grenada: In memory of Hugh Munro of Limlair, who departed this life on 30th October 1778 Aged 49 and of John Munro his infant son.

2. Dorothea, only daughter and heiress of Hugh Munro of Carriacou in the Government of Grenada married 02/11/1796 at Clifton John Span, merchant of Bristol.

3. In all probability, also the Hugh (variously also H.) Munro or Munroe who was an early purchaser of land in Tobago, being granted North East division (St John parish) Lot No. 50 (300 acres) 15/05/1771.

1. E.g Frances Key, This is Grenada (Carenage Press, 1971) pp. 159-160.

2. Vere Langford Oliver, More Monumental Inscriptins citing Gent[leman's] Mag[azine] 965.

3. 'Tables showing the Lots in each Parish, numbered as originally granted - the original Grantee - the name of the Lot, or lots, if one has been acquired, and the present Possessor where there is one' and 'A Table, showing the Estates in cultivation in 1832, and their Owners, in 1832, copied from the list appended to Byres' map of that date, with those in cultivation in 1862', Henry Iles Woodcock, A History of Tobago (Ayr: Smith and Grant, 1867; new impression London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1971); John Fowler, A summary account of the present flourishing state of the respectable colony of Tobago in the British West Indies illustrated with a map of the island and a plan of its settlement, agreeably to the sales by his Majesty’s Commissioners (London: A Grant, 1774) pp. 48-49.