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Signed letter to teacher T.W. Robinson requesting that he remain teaching in Singleton
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Built an elegant two story hotel with balcony and verandah
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Transferred the license from the Fitzroy Hotel to the Caledonian Hotel late the Sir Thomas Mitchell Inn kept by George Ledingham
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Granted licence for the Caledonian Hotel
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Made donation towards a house for Rev. John Rigney
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Licence for the Caledonian Hotel changed from Alexander Munro to Edward Alcorn
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Alexander Munro giving notice that those indebted to him requested to pay Donald Munro
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Made donation to the Singleton Benevolent Society
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Collected at West Maitland
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Subscribed to Testimonial for E.C. Close
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Subscriber to the Tamworth Benevolent Society
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Transfer of publican's license for the Caledonian Hotel from Edward Alcorn to Alexander Munro
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Charged by William Christie with illegally taking his son as an apprentice. Ordered to return the lad to his father
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Maitland Quarter Sessions
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William Simpson Found not guilty of stealing porter belonging to Alexander Munro of Singleton
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St. Matthias Church, Merton
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Marriage of Alexander Munro Esq., of Denman and Miss Annie Jane McDermott formerly of Parramatta on 22nd October. Minister Rev. W.E. White
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On List of Electors of the Counties of Northumberland and Hunter supporting Alexander Walker Scott as a candidate in the approaching general election
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Annieville, Denman
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Wife gave birth to a son on 21st January 1876
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Annieville, Denman
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Wife gave birth to a daughter on 18th August 1873
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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.
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Ardrover House, Singleton
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Died at his residence aged 77 years
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The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison Morrison, W. Frederic Sydney. The Aldine Publishing Company, 1888
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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..