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Family Chart No. R-13 Parents - Chart No. R-6
4th Generation Ross/Billing Family
PERCY DRUMMOND ROSS
second son of HENRY and HARRIETT ANN (SAIT) ROSS
was born 30th March 1866 at St. George St., Quebec City, Canada
died 4th April 1938, at Jeffery Hale Hospital, Quebec City
buried at Sillery, Quebec in Mount Hermon Cemetery
Resided at Quebec City, then Loretteville, Quebec
Occupation: Merchant
He married IDA BILLING
on 25th September 1889 at Valcartier, Que., by Rev. Dr. S. Riopel
daughter of WILLIAM and SARAH (BROWN) BILLING
she was born 22nd December 1870 at Valcartier, Que.
and died 20th January 1899 at 100 St Eustache St., Quebec City
buried at Valcartier, 23rd January 1899 in the Parish cemetery
she had 3 brothers: HENRY HERBERT; CURTIS; LEVISON; and a sister, MARY ELLEN
(BABE).
PERCY ROSS subsequently married LAURA ISABEL PARROTT 21 May 1902
they had a daughter, IVY JUNE, baptized 22 September 1910 at Trinity Church.
she married PERCY WILLIAM NEIL on 11th March 1933
he was son of Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS NEIL of Charlesbourg, Quebec
he died 19th june 1963 at Baie Comeau, Quebec
they had four children: RUTH; MARION; BARBARA; BRIAN ROSS.
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Children of PERCY and IDA (BILLING) ROSS
DORA GWENDOLINE
Born 7 November 1890 at 46 Ste. Marie St., Quebec City
Died 4 September 1891 (9 months and 27 days)
Buried at Valcartier Cemetery
HELEN ISABEL SAIT
Born 22 November 1892 at 49 Ste. Claire St., Quebec City
IDA BEATRICE
Born 19 July 1895 at 93 Artillery St., Quebec City
Died 6 July 1912 at Jeffery Hale Hospital, Quebec City
Buried 8 July 1912 at Valcartier, Quebec
MARY MARJORIE
Born 12 December 1897 at 100 St. Eustache St., Quebec City
Died 16 November 1915 at Hospital St. Francois d'Assize, Quebec City
Buried 17 November 1915 at Valcartier, Quebec.
She was graduate of Ottawa Ladies College
DOROTHY IDA BILLING
Born 10 December 1898 at 100 St. Eustache St., Quebec City
Married MAURICE LIONEL FITZGERALD of Hamilton, Ontario 19 April 1922
He died 16 April 1949 at Loretteville and was buried in Mount Hermon Cemetery
This record was compiled by Henry Ross Wiggs of Westmount Que.
12 August, 1970
Sources of data: Family Bible, newspaper clippings, and interview with Miss Helen ross and Mrs. Ida FitzGerald at Lorettevill on 3rd July 1970
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PERCY DRUMMOND ROSS (1866-1938)
Percy Drummond Ross, born the 30th of March, 1866, at St. George Street, Quebec City, was the second son of Henry Ross and Harriett Ann Sait. He was educated in public schools. He married Ida Billing, daughter of William and Sarah (Brown) Billing of Valcartier village, Quebec, the wedding ceremony taking place in the Church of England church at Valcartier on the 25th of September, 1889, with the Rev. Dr. S. Riopel conducting the service. They resided in the city of Quebec.
They had five daughters: Dora Gwendoline, who died when an infant of only nine months, Helen Isabel Sait, Ida Beatrice, Mary Marjorie, and Dorothy Ida Billing. When their youngest child was only a little over a month old, his wife died on the 20th of January, 1899 at the untimely age of twenty-nine years. The funeral service was held at Trinity Church, Quebec, with the Rector, the Rev. E. J. Etherington, officiating, and it was attended by many prominent persons and a large number of friends of both races and creeds. Following the service, a long train of sleighs followed the remains to their last resting place in Valcartier cemetery, about sixteen miles from the city.
While living in Quebec, Percy Ross was employed by Garneau & Frere, dry-goods merchants, but in due course he moved to Jeune Lorette (now Loretteville) to take over the management of his father's store. His genial manner and cheerful disposition made him a popular figure in the community.
He subsequently married Laura Parrott of Quebec who presented him with another daughter, Ivy June; and three of his daughters by his first wife continued to live with them. His youngest daughter, Ida, had been taken by his parents to live with them ever since she was a small child. In 1912, his second daughter, Beatrice, when only seventeen years old, died at Jeffery Hale Hospital in Quebec, and three years later, his third daughter, Marjorie, who had been living with her aunt, Miss Babe Billing, at Valcartier, died at the untimely age of eighteen. A few years later, Helen, his eldest daughter, also went to live with her grandparents in Loretteville. She and Ida always referred to their grandfather as "Bamp".
On the 19th of April, 1922, Ida Ross married Maurice Lionel Fitzgerald of Hamilton, Ontario, and they lived in Loretteville.
Following a long illness of some years duration, Percy Ross died at the Jeffery Hale Hospital on the 4th of April, 1938, at the age of seventy-two, and he was buried in Mount Hermon Cemetery. Maurice Fitzgerald died on the 16th of April, 1949, and he, too, was buried in Mount Hermon Cemetery. After his death, his widow, Ida, went back to live with her sister, Helen, who was then living alone in the lovely old home that had belonged to their grandfather, Henry Ross.
As this biography is being written in 1971, Helen Ross and Ida Fitzgerald continue to live there, surrounded by the same familiar belongings and attractive furnishings that provided a happy home for two generations before them. In compiling the genealogical history of the earlier generations of the Ross family, much of the credit goes to them because they provided me with a mass of information from old family Bibles, birth certificates, newspaper clippings, personal notes, and a true copy of the last will and testament of our great treat grandfather, J. William Ross, signed by him on the 6th of October, 1820, in the city of Quebec [see post of Feb. 23, 2011]. I am very grateful to them for their kind cooperation. Incidentally, at my baptism in Trinity Church, Quebec, on the 13th of May, 1896, Percy Drummond and Ida Billing Ross were present as my godfather and godmother.
Henry Ross Wiggs
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