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Item: 59803
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1849 21 November
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Signed letter to teacher T.W. Robinson requesting that he remain teaching in Singleton


 
Item: 60345
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1849 8 December
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Built an elegant two story hotel with balcony and verandah


 
Item: 60346
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1849 8 December
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Transferred the license from the Fitzroy Hotel to the Caledonian Hotel late the Sir Thomas Mitchell Inn kept by George Ledingham


 
Item: 73702
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1850 20 April
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Granted licence for the Caledonian Hotel


 
Item: 75824
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1850 13 July
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Made donation towards a house for Rev. John Rigney


 
Item: 82565
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1851 15 March
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Licence for the Caledonian Hotel changed from Alexander Munro to Edward Alcorn


 
Item: 82970
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1851 9 April
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Alexander Munro giving notice that those indebted to him requested to pay Donald Munro


 
Item: 86624
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1851 29 October
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Made donation to the Singleton Benevolent Society


 
Item: 90034
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1852 2 June
Place: Collected at West Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Subscribed to Testimonial for E.C. Close


 
Item: 100068
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1853 21 May
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Subscriber to the Tamworth Benevolent Society


 
Item: 113519
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1854 15 March
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Transfer of publican's license for the Caledonian Hotel from Edward Alcorn to Alexander Munro


 
Item: 113553
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1854 18 March
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Charged by William Christie with illegally taking his son as an apprentice. Ordered to return the lad to his father


 
Item: 128327
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1856 16 May
Place: Maitland Quarter Sessions
Source: SMH
Details: William Simpson Found not guilty of stealing porter belonging to Alexander Munro of Singleton


 
Item: 132860
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1867 26 October
Place: St. Matthias Church, Merton
Source: MM
Details: Marriage of Alexander Munro Esq., of Denman and Miss Annie Jane McDermott formerly of Parramatta on 22nd October. Minister Rev. W.E. White


 
Item: 132910
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1856 5 January
Place: -
Source: SMH
Details: On List of Electors of the Counties of Northumberland and Hunter supporting Alexander Walker Scott as a candidate in the approaching general election


 
Item: 139909
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1876 27 January
Place: Annieville, Denman
Source: MM
Details: Wife gave birth to a son on 21st January 1876


 
Item: 139979
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1873 23 August
Place: Annieville, Denman
Source: MM
Details: Wife gave birth to a daughter on 18th August 1873


 
Item: 146266
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1878 11 April
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: A grand banquet given for Alexander Munro in the upper hall of the Mechanics Institute on the occasion of his departure on a visit to Europe.


 
Item: 146267
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1889 12 February
Place: Ardrover House, Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Died at his residence aged 77 years


 
Item: 199205
Surname: Munro
First Name: Alexander
Ship: -
Date: 1888
Place: Singleton
Source: The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison Morrison, W. Frederic Sydney. The Aldine Publishing Company, 1888
Details: ALEXANDER MUNRO, Grazier and Vigneron, Greenwood, was born at Campbelltown, near Fort George, Scotland, on 9th August, 1812, and went when a child to Inverness where he lived till 1829, with the exception of one year spent at school at Ferintosh. He came to the colony in 1830, remained a few weeks in Sydney and then settled in Singleton, where he has ever since resided. He commenced business by the purchase of a team of bullocks, with which he started as carrier between Morpeth and Singleton, doing the work at as low a price per ton as the railway now charges. He continued at that work for two and a-half years, and was for several years alternately butcher, sheep shearer, storekeeper and baker, being in the latter trade eminently successful. He sent his bread so far as Government House, Sydney, and sold it as high as 3s 6d per 41b. loaf, enabling him to clear in cash £1100 in five months. At this time he was retailing flour at is per lb. In 1841 Mr. Munro built a weatherboard hotel in George-street, Singleton, and named it the Sir Thomas Mitchell Hotel, which he conducted for some years, and made sufficient money to buy the New Andel (now Toryburn) station on the Bundaira River. In 1853 he built the Caledonian Hotel, which he conducted for nine years. About 1858 he purchased another station, Terriaro, on the Namoi River, and in 1860 secured the station known as the Dobikin. Mr. Munro then sold Terriaro Station to Perry and Lloyd for £5000 Dobikin (after owning it fifteen years) to John Taylor for £22,000, and New Andel for £4100, retaining only a cattle station named Barraba. Between 1850 and 1860 he devoted his attention to vine growing at Bebeah, and there made his first wine. About 1876 he purchased the Greenwood estate from James Moore, and has now on the two properties seventy acres under vine culture. His plant alone in connection with wine-making is worth £7000, and he has taken over 220 first prizes for wine-including gold medal, Paris exhibition, 1878 and 18h2 ; gold medal, Amsterdam, 1883 ; gold medal, Indian exhibition, 1886; and gold medal, Bordeaux, besides numerous cups, medals, and trophies awarded in all parts of Australia and the world. Mr. Munro introduced gas into Singleton, and for that no praise which can be accorded him can be sufficiently strong, taking as he did upon himself the ordinary work of a corporation. He stands alone as being the sole proprietor of a gas supplying scheme. He was the first mayor of Singleton and held the position for four successive years. Mr. Munro, finding that the Presbyterian body had no cemetery, munificently purchased a block of land, and fenced it in, at a cost of £200. He donated £1000 towards the building of an extra wing to the hospital, of which he is president. He has endeared himself to the residents of Singleton by many unostentatious acts of charity, as instance, the poor at the benevolent asylum being treated to a weeks feasting during Jubilee week by his generosity. He gave an allotment of land as a site for a mechanics institute and is a leading man in that association. In short, Mr. Munros life and character are worthy to be written in bold letters in the Centennial History of New South Wales. He was married on the 28th July, 1838, at Singleton, by the Rev. Irving Heatherington, and is a member of the S.C., St. Andrews..



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