He died unmarried, on the 30th of July, 1869, leaving his
fee-simple estates of Mungasdale, Gruinard, and Strath-na-Sealg,
to an illegitimate daughter, who afterwards married Mr Catton.
He was buried at Dundonnel, and succeeded by his brother, IX.
KENNETH MUNRO-MACKENZIE, who was trained to the medical profession,
qualified in Edinburgh, and afterwards practised successively in
Dublin, London, France, and Italy, and eventually emigrated to
New South Wales, from which he returned in 1870 after thirty-four
years - having established the members of his family in good
positions there - to his native county, to take possession of his
late brother's property. But this he only succeeded in doing
after many years of expensive litigation carried on against him
by his brother's natural daughter, Mrs Catton, who attempted to
overthrow the family settlements and obtain possession of all
the estates for herself. She, however, only succeeded in ruining
her own property, which had to be old to pay the lawyers.
He married, in 1838, Julia Smith, relict of Captain Edmund Harrison
Cliffe, of Sydney, New South Wales, with issue -
1. Murdo, his heir, who, born in 1843, accompanied his father
from Australia and afterwards succeeded to the property.
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