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Also among James Monroe's ancestors were French Huguenot immigrants, who came to Virginia in 1700.[2] (Ironic that the g-g-grandson of a Royalist at the time of the English Civil War came to be a Founding Father of a revolutionary US)
-It was all a bit more complicated ... What you call the "English" civil war is otherwise the "Wars of the three Kingdoms."
As I recall the Munros were on the "Covenanting" ( Protestant) side: in fact Carbisdale was an impressive Munro clan victory against a royalist army in the north as late as 1650: six months before the battle of Dunbar where the Scottish Covenanters having reached an accommodation with the Royalists faced Cromwell and were defeated. Your man was likely a radical protestant: something which would accord with family intermarriage to Huguenots.
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