Family:George Monroe and Ann Osborne (1)

Estimation of Birth Years

Clan Munro USA and other trees tend to estimate birth years for most people in this family about 5-20 years earlier than the estimates presented here (as updated Apr 2023: George 1725, Ann 1730 and the children 1748-1772). This results in a few deaths at advanced ages (90 or over) and an age span in the children that suggests that George had a wife before Ann Osborne.

Clan Munro USA speculates that there was an earlier wife (maybe a Sanders/Saunders, with no explanation). As evidence, they indicate that Ann's estate was divided amongst 7 legatees (instead of 10 children). While it is perfectly possible that George had more than one wife, it is also possible that the children were born close enough together to have had one mother between them, and that 3 children died before their mother.

It should be noted that it looks like Clan Munro USA gathers its information from individuals supplying their own genealogy and probably making their own estimates of birth years. It is not clear if any subsequent attempt was made to review and revise estimates. For example, the estimates of the birth years of the children (at Clan Munro USA) don't place them in the order in which they appear in their father's will. The estimates provided here (as of Apr 2023) place them in the order in which they are listed in the will with the exception of Margaret, who is assumed to be the youngest based on the way the will is worded.

1. ↑ will of Arthur Osborne, in Virginia. County Court (Albemarle County), and Virginia. Circuit Court (Albemarle County). Wills, 1748-1919 ; general index, 1748-1930. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1949, 1975)
   p. 31.

   Osborne leaves land to be sold by George Monroe to pay his debts and the rest to be divided between his wife and three daughters. He later says that [his daughter] Monroe is to have the first choice. (The will also mentions his son Michael.)