Also the mother of
1. Rebecca (Munro) Staehlin, wife of William Staehlin and mother of Rogers Staehlin. Rebecca's burial location is unknown as of 2018.
2. Mary Anna (Munro) Hurley, died in Sacramento, California, 26 March 1978. Burial location is unknown as of 2018.
Mary Barton (Inglis) Munro's narrative (1):
"As a girl, I visited much of the Carlyle country [Dumfriesshire, Scotland]. Sixteen miles down the Great North Road, on the east side of Annandale and inland from the Solway was a small town called Ecclefechan. The single street on one side fell off into the old brook Middlebie Burn. It lept into it's cauldron here, and then rushed crystal clear through the chasms and dingles of it's linn. On the other side of the street, the plain houses straggled along the way like tired old folk in gray robes...
If you ever go to Scotland, ride to the top of Blaweery. There you can see everything round about. Dumphries on the Nith and the ruined abbeys and castles, dung doun by the reformers. The great arches and walls still defying them and time. You can see from Ettrick Penn to Helvellyn. From Tynsdale to Northumberland, to Carins- Muir and Ayrshire. This is the country I knew and loved. Then there is the Ecclefechan Churchyard. You could learn much. There is the monument marking the grave of John Johnstone. It was designed and carved by my great grandfather James Carlyle as a tribute to the man that taught his children. The graves of the teacher and the taught are not far apart. I mind when I was six my Mother took me to Grandmother's burial there it was a cauld blustery wind that whipped about us."
The story of the 1872 Mary Barton Inglis (later Munro) family emigration to the US from Scotland and birth of her daughter Rebena at Fresh Pond, Long Island, New York:
Mary wrote: "I eloped when I was seventeen and married Robert Jardin at Gretna Green. My mother [Grace Austin (Carlyle) Inglis] would not forgive me. It was not a decent marriage to her way of thinking, if you weren't married in the Kirk [church]. So we went to Ayr to live, still a honeymoon when Robert was killed by a fall from his horse in August 1872. So I returned to Sunnybank."
[Two months later and pregnant, Mary emigrated to New York with her family, Grace and John Inglis, Mary and most of her siblings. Mary writes, ] "On the fourth day of September 1872, we sailed on a tramp steamer out of Liverpool with eight children, two Border collies, a pair of Suffolks and my Irish jumper. It was a rough and stormy voyage. We landed at Castle Garden, in New York on the twenty-seventh of October with one horse, one collie and two sick babies. We stayed in New York for a month until we heard from the Blakes. They were cousins of a neighbor in Haddom and lived in Fresh Pond, Long Island."
"The first December in America in 1872 was the coldest month I ever lived through. We had a big drafty house in Fresh Pond, not much furniture, but we had plenty of warm blankets and bed-linen we had brought from Scotland. Four days before Christmas my daughter arrived. The name was to be Robert or Roberta. It was so cold when I gave the name, it chattered out to sound like Rebena. So Rebena Jardin she stayed. According to Scotch custom she became the ward of her maternal grandparents. So my Mother [Grace Austin Carlyle Inglis] laid claim to her accordingly."
Mary's courtship and subsequent marriage are described at her husband's memorial, James M. Munro, Find A Grave Memorial# 43147289.
Burials not yet located for her other children: Rebecca (Munro) Staehlin, Mary Anna (Munro) Hurley and possible sons, Francis Carlyle Munro and David Forbes Munro.
1. Mary Anna (Munro) Hurley, "The Carlyle Branch," memoir, 1 January 1961; photocopy provided to Hawes by Mary Lee (Carson) (Munro) Swanson of Bowie, Maryland, 1997. Mary Anna Munro Hurley wrote down or copied stories from both her mother, Mary Barton (Inglis) Munro, and her father, James Mair Munro.
Also the mother of
1. Rebecca (Munro) Staehlin, wife of William Staehlin and mother of Rogers Staehlin. Rebecca's burial location is unknown as of 2018.
2. Mary Anna (Munro) Hurley, died in Sacramento, California, 26 March 1978. Burial location is unknown as of 2018.
Mary Barton (Inglis) Munro's narrative (1):
"As a girl, I visited much of the Carlyle country [Dumfriesshire, Scotland]. Sixteen miles down the Great North Road, on the east side of Annandale and inland from the Solway was a small town called Ecclefechan. The single street on one side fell off into the old brook Middlebie Burn. It lept into it's cauldron here, and then rushed crystal clear through the chasms and dingles of it's linn. On the other side of the street, the plain houses straggled along the way like tired old folk in gray robes...
If you ever go to Scotland, ride to the top of Blaweery. There you can see everything round about. Dumphries on the Nith and the ruined abbeys and castles, dung doun by the reformers. The great arches and walls still defying them and time. You can see from Ettrick Penn to Helvellyn. From Tynsdale to Northumberland, to Carins- Muir and Ayrshire. This is the country I knew and loved. Then there is the Ecclefechan Churchyard. You could learn much. There is the monument marking the grave of John Johnstone. It was designed and carved by my great grandfather James Carlyle as a tribute to the man that taught his children. The graves of the teacher and the taught are not far apart. I mind when I was six my Mother took me to Grandmother's burial there it was a cauld blustery wind that whipped about us."
The story of the 1872 Mary Barton Inglis (later Munro) family emigration to the US from Scotland and birth of her daughter Rebena at Fresh Pond, Long Island, New York:
Mary wrote: "I eloped when I was seventeen and married Robert Jardin at Gretna Green. My mother [Grace Austin (Carlyle) Inglis] would not forgive me. It was not a decent marriage to her way of thinking, if you weren't married in the Kirk [church]. So we went to Ayr to live, still a honeymoon when Robert was killed by a fall from his horse in August 1872. So I returned to Sunnybank."
[Two months later and pregnant, Mary emigrated to New York with her family, Grace and John Inglis, Mary and most of her siblings. Mary writes, ] "On the fourth day of September 1872, we sailed on a tramp steamer out of Liverpool with eight children, two Border collies, a pair of Suffolks and my Irish jumper. It was a rough and stormy voyage. We landed at Castle Garden, in New York on the twenty-seventh of October with one horse, one collie and two sick babies. We stayed in New York for a month until we heard from the Blakes. They were cousins of a neighbor in Haddom and lived in Fresh Pond, Long Island."
"The first December in America in 1872 was the coldest month I ever lived through. We had a big drafty house in Fresh Pond, not much furniture, but we had plenty of warm blankets and bed-linen we had brought from Scotland. Four days before Christmas my daughter arrived. The name was to be Robert or Roberta. It was so cold when I gave the name, it chattered out to sound like Rebena. So Rebena Jardin she stayed. According to Scotch custom she became the ward of her maternal grandparents. So my Mother [Grace Austin Carlyle Inglis] laid claim to her accordingly."
Mary's courtship and subsequent marriage are described at her husband's memorial, James M. Munro, Find A Grave Memorial# 43147289.
Burials not yet located for her other children: Rebecca (Munro) Staehlin, Mary Anna (Munro) Hurley and possible sons, Francis Carlyle Munro and David Forbes Munro.
1. Mary Anna (Munro) Hurley, "The Carlyle Branch," memoir, 1 January 1961; photocopy provided to Hawes by Mary Lee (Carson) (Munro) Swanson of Bowie, Maryland, 1997. Mary Anna Munro Hurley wrote down or copied stories from both her mother, Mary Barton (Inglis) Munro, and her father, James Mair Munro.
