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Inverness / Re: Petty Parish Church
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 21:31 GMT (UK) »
Thanks again, Dav.
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Inverness / Re: Petty Parish Church
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 13:48 GMT (UK) »
Hello, Dav,
Thank you for your insight re the Petty baptism and families "in the Island". My husband had
wondered whether the reference wasn't to the Black Isle. I had thought it too distant, but was thinking in terms of land travel.
Have you come across resources with information about the fisher folk of the 18th who fished from both sides of the Moray Firth?
Thanks again,
Islaymist1
Thank you for your insight re the Petty baptism and families "in the Island". My husband had
wondered whether the reference wasn't to the Black Isle. I had thought it too distant, but was thinking in terms of land travel.
Have you come across resources with information about the fisher folk of the 18th who fished from both sides of the Moray Firth?
Thanks again,
Islaymist1
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Inverness / Re: Petty Parish Church
« on: Monday 10 February 14 17:16 GMT (UK) »
Hello,
I'm hoping to identify a place name in a 1736 baptism in Petty Parish.
The family was living "in the Island" at the time, where the father was "servant to Donald Clark in the Island". Maps I've consulted haven't been of help.
Suggestions?
islaymist1
I'm hoping to identify a place name in a 1736 baptism in Petty Parish.
The family was living "in the Island" at the time, where the father was "servant to Donald Clark in the Island". Maps I've consulted haven't been of help.
Suggestions?
islaymist1
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Ross & Cromarty / Re: donald ross of avoch
« on: Saturday 30 January 10 17:43 GMT (UK) »
Thank you again.
There is a gravestone for a John Ross next to the one for Donald Ross and Christina Bain in the Rosemarkie churchyard. The face of the gravestone is deteriorating quickly. I believe this John Ross to be the brother of Donald Ross (1783-1863). (as opposed to his son - John Ross of Whitebog). That gravestone I believe was placed there by Donald Ross (1815-1883) the nephew of the deceased.
Again, I do appreciate your help.
Isabel
There is a gravestone for a John Ross next to the one for Donald Ross and Christina Bain in the Rosemarkie churchyard. The face of the gravestone is deteriorating quickly. I believe this John Ross to be the brother of Donald Ross (1783-1863). (as opposed to his son - John Ross of Whitebog). That gravestone I believe was placed there by Donald Ross (1815-1883) the nephew of the deceased.
Again, I do appreciate your help.
Isabel
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Ross & Cromarty / Re: donald ross of avoch
« on: Saturday 30 January 10 14:23 GMT (UK) »
Thank you so much for your reply !
I do recognize the inscription on the gravestone in the the Rosemarkie Parish cemetery. Donald Ross and Christina Bain were my great great grandparents.
I have not been able to locate the burial places of any of their children. Their two eldest sons, Donald and John both married Margarets. Donald (b 1815) at 62 yrs.) married a Margaret Sinclair (42yrs.) in the Fortrose Free Church in 1877 (she died in 1878 in Avoch Parish). Donald died in 1883 (69 yrs.) in Avoch Parish. (Inch Farm) He was farmer at Inch and Fortrose Farms. He included a gift toward the building of a manse for the Free Church in Fortrose in his will, so it seems he continued his association with that church.
John Ross (b 1818, Rosemarkie) married Margaret Fraser. They farmed at Whitebog, Cromarty Parish. I do not have a date or place of their marriage, nor any information re deaths or places of burial. John and Margaret had two daughters: Christina and Jessie. John is listed in the 1881 census, but only Margaret in the 1891 census, where she is now "widow" and "farmer", so it seems John died between 1881 and 1891. There is no listing for her at the farm in 1901.
A third brother, James, was at the Feddon Hill Farm in the census of 1841, 1851, 1861 and 1871, but then disappears when Donald (brother) moves his place of residence to the Inch Farm in the 1881 census. I have been unable to find any record of place of residence for James after that, nor any record of his death. The families of Donald's other 3 siblings were remembered in Donald's will, including the youngest, Robert, my great grandfather, in Canada, which would suggest that James had predeceased his brother Donald.
I do appreciate any insight/information you might have.
Isabel Vaughan
I do recognize the inscription on the gravestone in the the Rosemarkie Parish cemetery. Donald Ross and Christina Bain were my great great grandparents.
I have not been able to locate the burial places of any of their children. Their two eldest sons, Donald and John both married Margarets. Donald (b 1815) at 62 yrs.) married a Margaret Sinclair (42yrs.) in the Fortrose Free Church in 1877 (she died in 1878 in Avoch Parish). Donald died in 1883 (69 yrs.) in Avoch Parish. (Inch Farm) He was farmer at Inch and Fortrose Farms. He included a gift toward the building of a manse for the Free Church in Fortrose in his will, so it seems he continued his association with that church.
John Ross (b 1818, Rosemarkie) married Margaret Fraser. They farmed at Whitebog, Cromarty Parish. I do not have a date or place of their marriage, nor any information re deaths or places of burial. John and Margaret had two daughters: Christina and Jessie. John is listed in the 1881 census, but only Margaret in the 1891 census, where she is now "widow" and "farmer", so it seems John died between 1881 and 1891. There is no listing for her at the farm in 1901.
A third brother, James, was at the Feddon Hill Farm in the census of 1841, 1851, 1861 and 1871, but then disappears when Donald (brother) moves his place of residence to the Inch Farm in the 1881 census. I have been unable to find any record of place of residence for James after that, nor any record of his death. The families of Donald's other 3 siblings were remembered in Donald's will, including the youngest, Robert, my great grandfather, in Canada, which would suggest that James had predeceased his brother Donald.
I do appreciate any insight/information you might have.
Isabel Vaughan
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Ross & Cromarty / donald ross of avoch
« on: Saturday 30 January 10 03:32 GMT (UK) »
Donald Ross b. 1815 Rosemarkie was farmer at Inch Farm and Hill of Fortrose Farm. He died in Avoch Parish (Inch Farm) in 1883. He was associated with the Free Kirk in Fortrose where he had been married in 1778. I am trying to determine where he was buried.
His parents where Donald Ross (1783 - 1863) and Christina Bain Ross (1783 -1864). The parents of Donald (b. 1783) were Donald Ross and Janet Mann. I have had no success in tracing the family back further, and have no detailed information about the latter Donald Ross and his wife Janet Mann. (They had another son, John Ross, who was a carpenter in Fortrose.)
Grateful for any assistance. Isabel Vaughan
His parents where Donald Ross (1783 - 1863) and Christina Bain Ross (1783 -1864). The parents of Donald (b. 1783) were Donald Ross and Janet Mann. I have had no success in tracing the family back further, and have no detailed information about the latter Donald Ross and his wife Janet Mann. (They had another son, John Ross, who was a carpenter in Fortrose.)
Grateful for any assistance. Isabel Vaughan
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