THE FAMILY TREE NOTES OF ANDREW ROSS, ROSS HERALD
This document incorporates the original notes written to accompany the family tree prepared by Andrew Ross with subsequent updates by his son, Donald Ross. We have added to this information and notes received from Peter Gamble, Steve Savage and Katharine (whose notes, as well as her own updates, had been updated in 1933 by Willie Munro of Clashnabuiac).
The original information from Andrew and Donald Ross is in black type, information from Peter Gamble is in red, from Steve Savage in blue, from Katharine in magenta and from us in green.
We hope we have transcribed all the information accurately but apologise for any mistakes which we will correct as we learn of them.
Bob and Bryony Bruce, November 2010
NB - Additions made by us after the first version were distributed are in this type, other additionsare in the original blue and red
1 / Donald Munro / Tenant in Eilanich in the Black Isle according to Mrs MacKenzie but George (no 74) says this is an Eilenach a few miles above Boathbut George (no 74) says that there is an Eilanach a few miles north of Boath near Allness (PG – correct) and another near Glenglass
2 / Donald Munro / Tacksman of Tinord, he described himself as the younger son of a younger son
NOTE / Although the records clearly show that Christina (no 4) was born in 1759 – the daughter of a tenant in Elenach, the records surrounding Finlay (no 6) and Donald (no 8) suggest a much later date of birth – 1793 for Finlay. The certificates for them and their families would suggest that their mother and therefore wife to Donald Munro (no 2) was Isabella McLean. There is a strong indication that this Isabella was born 1765/66 in Resolis and that she married a Donald Munro in Alness on 10th July 1789. Scotlands People suggest that this Donald & Isabella in Alness had – Christian, 1801, Finlay 1793, George 1795, Hector 1804 Margaret 1790 and Margaret 1799
3 / Gordon Ross / Tacksman in Milton, Boath,( now gamekeepers' house) parish of Alness. Born 26 October 1756, married Christina Munro 5 November 1779, died 8 December 1815, many years an elder in the parish church
Christina Munro born 5 November 1759
Married Christina Munro 7 August 1781
4 / Christina Munro / Born 5 November 1759, died at Ardgay in the house of their daughter Isabella 17 June 1842. See Aunt Christina's notes
Married Gordon Ross August 7th 1781
(Inverness Journal July 8th 1842 – Death of Mrs Christie Ross, wife of Gordon Ross Tacksman of Boath at Ardgay aged 84)
Certificate shows born 25th November 1759 and baptised on 27th of that month in Kiltearn, named Christian – father Donald Munro, tenant in Elanach. Certificate for Kiltearn dated 7th August 1781 says “At Teanourd August 7th Gordon Ross in Boath and Christian Munro in Teanourd were contracted and married”
5 / John Munro
6 / Finlay Munro / (Husband of no 7)
Married Mary Ross ( 7) 9th May 1818 in Kiltearn, certificate shows FM at Teanourd, died 13th August 1856 in Alness
NOTE – his death certificate for 13th August 1856 shows him as a carpenter in Alness, the son of Donald Munro, farmer and Isabella McLean. The informant on the death certificate wasRobert Munro, brother in law. There is a birth certificate for 27th September 1793 which shows that “Donald Munro at Lealtie and Isabel McLean his wife had a child baptised Finlay.
Their (6&7)daughter Jessie (28) shows her parents as Finlay Munro and Mary Ross on her marriage and death certificates, with Finlay's occupation being farmer
7 / Mary (Margaret?) Ross / Of a good family, her sister was married to the Factor of Fowlis and another to a Munro
Born 1785 and died 7th January 1870 in Kiltearn, was the daughter of John Ross and Ann Douglas
8 / Donald Munro / Is an excise officer, he was tenant of Lealty
Marriage certificate for Donald Munro for 9th June 1814 at Glenshiel says “married Mary Macrae, daughter to the Rev Mr John Macrae xxxx to Mr Donald Munro, supervisor at Broadford, Skye” On the death certificate of his daughter Madeline, Donald's occupation is given as “Inland Revenue”
9 / Mary Macrae / Daughter of the parish minister of Glenshiel, Kintail, who was of the family of Inverinate
(wife of 8)
Born 16th March 1785, Glenshiel and married on 9th June 1814
10 / George Ross / Born 19 May 1788, died 23 January 1789
?died in 1798 or 1789
11 / William Ross / Born 20 December 1789, died 2 June 1798
12 / Alexander Ross / Born 8 May 1795, died February 1820 as the result of two accidents, he lay for a long time after the first in the house of his Uncle William, tenant of Teaninich
B 8 May 1789
Died February 8th 1820
Born 8th May 1795
13 / Finlay Ross / Born 15 November 1800, died 18 February 1823. Took ill at Aberdeen where he was attending the university
14 / Donald Ross / Owned Spring Gardens, a coffee and cotton plantation Berbice, a county of British Guiana. Died without issue.
15 / Martha ? / Maiden surname unascertained, believed to have predeceased her husband. (no 14)
16 / Margaret Ross / Born 17 March 1784, in her youth was a tall and very handsome woman, she was greatly beloved by her brothers
(married to 17)
Birth certificate Alness, 23rd March 1784 “Gordon Ross in Boath and Christ'.Munro his spouse had a child born of this date named Margaret”
Married 11th November 1809 in Invergordon, died 6th December 1878 in Boath.
Identical to 101
17 / William Munro / Son to Finlay Munro (and Christian) in Tollie, born 26th December 1787, (in the parish of Rosskeen)formerly tenant of the Ord at Invergordon, first became tenant of Loanroide under lease 6 July 1832
Died 6 July 1832
...Tollie (site of Ardross Castle)
Died 14th February 1878
Identical to 100
18 / George Ross / Planter in Demerara. Identical with numbers 34 and 57. Married to his cousin, Christina Munro
Born 30th October 1798 in Alness
OPR birth record shows parents “Gordon Ross and Christian Munro his wife at Boath had a child baptised – George”
19 / Christina Munro / After her husband's death lived in Musselburgh for many years and then went to Australia where she died in 1894
(Wife of 18)
Identical to no 33
20 / John Ross / Born 16 February 1793, died 19 October 1837. Succeeded his brother Hector in the property of Spring Gardens, he got sunstroke, came home and died in Boath.
21 / Isabella Ross / Born 28 April 1803, lived at Dalmore after leaving Boath for 2 years at school at Broadford in Skye, also in London with relations of her brother, Donald's, wife see notes.
This was Auntie Ross of Ivy Cottage, Ardgay, Ross-shire. She died in 1902, aged 99 years and seven months.
Mother (no 4) lived with her until 1842, great niece (no 62) living with her (1871 census)
Born 30th April 1803 Alness Isabella Bethune Ross
“William Ross farmer at Ardgay, Kincardine and Isabella B/t Ross at XXX cottage were married on 25th May 1827”.
22 / William Ross / A genealogy of his family is given by William Aird Creich, in his “Genealogy of the Families of Douglas of Maldearg and Robertson of Kindeace”
He had the farm of mid-Ardgay, Ivy Cottage being the farm house. There was no issue of the marriage.
Born about 1791 in Kincardine, last seen in the 1841 census at Ardgay.
23 / Hector Ross / Born 16 February 1786, died 4 August 1822. Succeeded his brother Donald in the property Spring Gardens
24 / John Munro / Officer of Inland Revenue, formerly in Invergordon, latterly lived in Inverness. He accompanied George Ross to shoot ptarmigan and thereby hangs a tale.
(son of John Munro, 5)
25 / Ann Munro / Died a few years ago (1900) unmarried.
(daughter of 6 & 7)
A very fine looking woman, lived with her brother Donald, tenant of Tinord and often visited her relatives at Loanroidge
Born 11th February 1819
26 / Alexander Munro
? Donald / Now a carter in Evanton, his father and mother were too careless and indolent to give their family education. ??
(son of 6 & 7)
???Name should be Donald; now dead; he has a brother Robert, (born 2nd December 1824) eldest of the family; went to Australia.???
Farmed Tinord unsuccessfully. Known as Donald the Dunce
Farmed Tinord unsuccessfully before becoming a carter
Donald born 11th February 1831 in Kiltearn, died 15th September 1904, at the time was a carter living in Evanton, Kiltearn and died single. The witness on his death certificate was his brother in law – Alexander Sellar
27 / Bella (Finlay) Munro / Died young
(daughter of 6 & 7)
Born 29th July 1822
28 / Jessie Munro / Married an engineer, they have a daughter (Mary Ann) in the Board School at Golspie who has the Duke of Sutherlands children under her charge
(daughter of 6 & 7)
…..married an engineer named Sellar...
Born 29th August 1827, married Alexander Sellar on 21st July 1860, died 15th May 1902. One daughter May Ann born in 1864
29 / Madeline Munro / Of the five (I think) sons one is Sir James Russell Ex Lord Provost of Edinburgh, another John, is minister of the Presbyterian Church Cape Town, he is the only one who has a family
Madeline Rose Munro - born 15th June 1815, died 3rd April 1899
30 / The Rev Alexander F Russell / Free church minister Glendaract, (Glenaruel) parish of Kilmodan and Southall in the Synod of Argyll where all the Russells except James the eldest was born. He retired and died in Edinburgh about 13 years ago.
Born 24th October 1814, died 10th November 1892, married 7th June 1845 in Kilmoden
31 / Isabella Munro / Mrs MacKenzie 1 Abbotsford Park, Edinburgh ? her two sons were both married, Gilbert left two boys and George two girls. George's widow last year married Sir James Russell's son of 29 / 30 in 1899
Married J MacKenzie, 1 Abbotsford....
Born 20th February 1817, married 10th December 1847 in Ardersier
32 / John McKenzie / Died before 1875
1851 census – retired West Indian rubber planter
33 / Christina Munro / An exceedingly beautiful and able woman
Married her cousin, George Ross
Identical to 19
34 / George Ross / Identical with 18 and 57
35 / Gordon Munro / Died in Ontario
36 / Donald Munro / The family rascal, was not heard of after last slave raiding expedition
37 / Hector Munro / Born 2 September 1822, died 9 August 1851. In a letter of my mother's she speaks of him as a dearly beloved brother
38 / Isabella Munro / A most beautiful woman
(married to 39)
Born 31st December 1817 in Alness
Died 9th January 1894 in Rosehall, Sutherland
39 / William Anderson / Innkeeper at Port Nalick, afterwards labourer at Linside
Born 17th April 1824 Kiltearn, died in poverty May 15 1897
(Great Uncle of KB)
Son of John Anderson and Margaret Ross. .
40 / Christina Munro / Mother of the compiler, i.e. thy father. I added all the later day people to this ????
Born 1810 Rosskeen, died 20 June 1855, Invergordon, Ross-shire. Bur. Rosskeen Burial Ground. Cause of death consumption 14 months, no medical attendant. Married 15 June 1840 Edinburgh
Born 5th December 1815
41 / Donald Ross / Father of the compiler, i.e. see Andrew Ross (65) carpenter in Invergordon. Coachmaker.
1810 Kincardine, Ross-shire. Occ. Coach builder, wood merchant. Died 12 September 1856, Invergordon, Ross-shire. Buried Rosskeen Burial Ground. Cause of death unknown 2 hours, no medical attendant.
Married 15th June 1840
42 / Catherine Munro / Married to 43
Great reader like her husband
Born 8th December 1824, married 10th July 1848.
43 / James Munro / Draper in Alness, unbusiness like, schools compulsory officer, could trace connection with the Fowlis family
Church Beadle
Born about 1813 in Rosskeen and died 10th April 1893 in Alness
44 / George Munro / Succeeded his father William in the farm of Loanroidge. George Munro married as his second wife a Miss Munro
B 1826, occ. Farmer. Married (Mary R) 12 September 1856
Died 3rd March 1893 aged 64, i.e. born c 1829. Married Mary Reid and then Jessie Munro (28th April 1882). Jessie and George had three children – Thomas Alister born 1885, Mary 1887 – 1920 and Elizabeth (Bessie) McGregor born 15thDecember 1890.
Born 3rd June 1828
Thomas (1885) a militia man in the USA. Killed during a strike (in Pittsburgh?). Mary (1887) was a nurse in Canada, died in England. Elizabeth (1890) employed by Rockefellers in Japan, last heard of in 1940
45 / Mary Reid / John Munro, no 72, said in July 1924 she was married about 1855.
Daughter of John Reid, farmer Balnacraig,
Born about 1836, married 12th September 1856 and died in 24th April 1879.
46 / Gordon Ross / On PG's George Ross
47 / Frederick Ross
48 / Mary Ross / On PG's Margaret Ross
49 / Alister Ross
50 / Christina Ross
51 / Ella Ross
52 / Alfie Ross
53 / John Ross
Note – Nos 46 to 53 grandchildren of Gordon Ross
54 / Russell Sons
(Children of 29 and 30) / Andrew Ross, Ross Herald, remembers John ordained in Barclay Church to go to South Africa, where he married and had a family; Sir James Russell, sometime ? Provost of Edinburgh who married the widow of his cousin Captain George Mackenzie and had at least one daughter, who may have married Gordon Ross of Australia.
William Russell who lives in Newington Lee (?) Edinburgh
Amongst others - eldest Sir James Alexander Russell (knighted 1894). Ll.D. M.A. M.B. B.Sc. FRS Edinburgh, FRCP Edin. Inspector of anatomy for Scotland from 1881. Lord Lt. And Lord Provost 1891/4 D.L. J.P. B.1846. Married first Marianne Rae, the daughter of James Wilson who died in 1882 and second marriage 1897, Mary Ruth Prior widow of. Daus 1899 and 1905
Six sons – James 6th April 1846 - 23 January 1918, first marriage to Mary Ann Wilson, second marriage to Mary Ruth Mackenzie, a widow born about 1859 (the daughter of George Bowes Prior who was a captain in the Madras Royal Artillery and Lucy Middlecoat ) on 23rd September 1897, had a child called Ruth (of second marriage) in 1899. The second son was John M Russell, born 1848. The third son was George D, born around 1850. William was born in 1851 and Duncan in 1853, appears in 1901 census in 22 BruntsfieldGardens, Morningside, he was a civil engineer. The youngest Alexander Fraser was born about 1857, he married Laura Charlotte Russell and they had two children called James Fortearth and Margaret Marianne. He was in the army, in 1891 they were living in the barracks in Hampshire.
55 / Gilbert Robin McKenzie / See 31 Left two sons . Married Jane Scott (born about 1851 in Musselburgh, the daughter of Thomas Rennie Scott who was a graduate of Edinburgh University and a General Practitioner) on 2nd November 1875 in Edinburgh and had two children John and Thomas R S
Gilbert was a surgeon in the Bengal Medical Servicesandborn inBritish Guiana.
56 / Donald George McKenzie / See 31 Left two girls (Captain D G Mackenzie Bombay Cav. See 54) Born in British Guiana
57 / Descendants of Christina Munro and George Ross(18 and 19)
See descendants of 18 and 19 i.e. 47 to 53
See 46 to 53
58 / John Anderson / Brought up by (uncle or )grandparents at Boath
Public House in Manchester (visited Clashnabuiac in 1920s – string of public houses in Oldham area)
Born c 1848 Kincardine, Ross-shire (census), believed to have died 18th August 1932 in Oldham.
59 / Mary Anderson / Sister of 58 Living in household of Donald Ross gamekeeper as domestic servant (1861 census for Kincardine)
Born c 1847, married in South Leith 1876, died 20th February 1906
Two children - Isabella born 1878 and Alexander in 1892
60 / Donald Fraser / Husband of 59
Born about 1846. Police constable at time of marriage - 24th November 1876, still a police officer when Mary died in 1906
61 / Margaret Anderson / Sister of 58
Born 16th October 1845 in Sutherland (census) and died aged 42 on 12th June 1886 in Rosehall, Sutherland, she was a domestic servant and was single.
59 to 61 sisters and brother in law of 58
62 / Christina Anderson / Sister of 58 (Born in the parish of Creich 27th July 1859, living with great aunt (no 21) from the 1871 census
Witness at the marriage of her sister Mary in 1876
Born 1860 in Creich, Sutherland (census)
58 to 62 children and son in law of 38 and 39
Also there were daughters - Roberta Anderson born in Kincardine, Ross-shire c 1852 who died age 12 in 1865 on April 16th in Rosehall, Sutherland and Williamina Anderson born c 1851 in Kincardine Ross-shire
63 / Christina Ross / At Ivy Cottage, Ardgay, Ross-shire with Mrs William Ross (no 21) till she wed. Thereafter with Mr Grant, Elgin,
Housekeeper to Mr Grant, Myrtle Cottage, Main or Mayne Road, Elgin, Scotland after Auntie Ross's death.
Died at Elgin 23 April 1921, buried in Elgin Cemetery.
B 1844, Invergordon, Ross-shire. Cause of death morbus cordis (valvular) 2 years, oedema of lungs
64 / William Ross / Went to America about 1868, died 1909. in his youth was a clerk at Ardgay Station, Ross-shire. Married Ellen McDougal.
Died at Everett, Washington, USA 16 April 1908. Before going to USA he worked as a clerk at Bonar Bridge Station (Ardgay).
B 1848 Invergordon, Ross-shire, died about 1909, USA
63 and 64 sister and brother of compiler
65 / Andrew Ross (the author) / Solicitor, Supreme Court Edinburgh, Depute Clerk of Court of Session. Appointed Bute Pursuivant November 1885, Marchmont Herald 1 May 1888, Ross Herald 18 June 1904. Married 26 November 1869.
Married in 11 Leopold Place, Edinburgh, the house of his wife's mother.
Died at 14 Blacket Place, Edinburgh 21 February 1925.
Served for three years as artillery man in Midlothian Coast Artillery and six years in Queens Edinburgh Rifles: No 20 Company. Q.E.R.V.B. “Stockbridge Joiners”
Born 3 September 1849, Invergordon, Ross-shire. Buried Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. Cause of death enlarged prostate, cystectomy 2y, influenza 23d, nephrititis
Great grandson of Gordon Ross
66 / William Frances Gillon / Born 17 July 1850, only daughter of David Gillon, rope and sack manufacturer, factory Tamtain Bridge, Edinburgh, married 26 November 1869 Andrew Ross – see no 65
Her mother's name was Isabella Leslie Malcolm, her father David Gillon.
Died 23 December 1916, buried in Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh beside her children.
67 / Margaret Ross / Still living in America. A son and daughter, the son is an engineer – his name is Raymond Lincoln Jacobus
B 27 June 1852, Invergordon, Ross-shire, died 2 March 1948, Visalia, Tulare, California. Married about 1877 USA
68 / Delos Jacobus / Believed to be still living,
See other notes, sons Melvin and Jessie J, daughter Margaret; JJ and M served with American Expeditionary Force in European War 1914 – 18
Born 20 April 1846, Cincinnati, Madison, Ohio, USA. Died 9 February 1931, Tacoma Pierce, Washington
Abraham Delos Jacobus
69 / James Hector Ross / Born 1854, died at Edinburgh 27 April 1910, travelled for G W Wilson & Co of Aberdeen till the firm dissolved. 56 years old.
Tailor, clothier, commercial traveller. Died 27 October 1910, 32 Rankeillor Street, Edinburgh, buried Newington Cemetery.
69 / a / Donald Ross
(69a = a new number) / Last son of Christina and Donald Ross
Born 12 June 1855, Invergordon High Street, Invergordon, Ross-shire, died 13 January 1856, Invergordon. Cause of death teething 6 days
70 / Jemima Ballingall / Born 26 June 1850. Married at Pitheaolis, Perth, 27 December 1878 , by the Rev James Gibson, Free Church.
Married Cherrybank, Perth. Baptised 7 July 1850, Perth, D 10 December 1930, 32 Rankeillor Street, Edinburgh, buried Newington Cemetary, Edinburgh.
67 to 70 sister, brother and spouses of compiler
70 / a / Family of 42/43 / James born 5th April 1849, Margaret born 25th January1851, Catharine born 17th February 1853, Christina born 27th May 1855, Alexander born 11th September1857, Isabella Bethune born 27th January 1860, Elizabeth Flyter born 9th August 863, and Hector born 11th March 1867. All born in Rosskeen.