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Family Chart No. R-3 Parents - Chart No. R-1
2nd Generation ROSS Family
DRUMMOND ROSS
son of J. WILLIAM and SARAH (BLOW) ROSS
was baptized 29 March 1816 at St. Andrew's Church, Quebec City
died in his forties 1856 (?) at Lake Beauport, Que. (?)
Resided at Pointe Levis, Quebec, then "in the Seigneury of Lake
Beauport in the County and District of Quebec."
Because of poor health, he settled in the country and became a farmer.
He married MARIA JANE BEAMISH
on 24 December 1835 at St. John's (Chalmers) Church, Quebec City.
daughter of WILLIAM and MARGURETTA ( ) BEAMISH
she was born 1824 (?) at north of Ireland
and died 19 August 1889 at St. Vincent, Minnesota, U.S.A.
buried at Pembina, North Dakota in Pembina cemetery
Shortly after the death of her husband, DRUMMOND ROSS,
she married the Hon. FLEURY TASCHEREAU of Quebec.
(For details see Family Chart No. T-1)
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Children of DRUMMOND and JANE (BEAMISH) ROSS
WILLIAM D. F. Born 30 October 1836 at Pointe Levis, Quebec
Married MARY A. G. Had 3 children
Died 18 January 1902 at Winnipeg, Manitoba
MUNRO ROSS Baptized 13 Jul 1838 at Anglican Church, Levis
Married SUSAN ANNE WIGGS 14 July 1830 Had 3 children
Died 27 July 1904 at Montreal, Que.
R. B. (Names unknown)
Married Had 3 children
[I have reason to believe that R. B. and Richard H. are the same person. See below.]
DRUMMOND Baptized 18 June 1840 at lake Beauport, Que.
Left home 1860 (?) and was never heard of again.
HENRY Born 28 May 1842 at Lake Beauport, Que.
Married HARRIETT ANN SAIT 23 November 1863 Had 13 children
Died 31 May 1926 at Loretteville, Que.
RICHARD H.
Married JENNY REED of Lake City, Minn.
Died 1888 at St. Vincent, Minn.
SAMUEL B.
Never married
Died 3 October 1890 at St. Thomas, North Dakota
CLARISSA ANNE Born 10 April 1850 at Lake Beauport, Que.
Married CHARLES HOWARD JEFFERYS 5 July 1873 in Quebec
Died 1825 at Winnipeg, Manitoba Had children
SARAH HARRIET Baptized 10 April 1853 at St. Peter's Church, Quebec
Married PATRICK AHERN Had 3 children
Died 21 April 1889 at St Vincent, Minn.
CATHERINE MARGARET Born November 1855 at Lake Beauport, Que.
Married ALBERT HENRY POSTON 5 August 1883 Had 7 children
Died 2 January 1934 at Spokane, Washington
This record was compiled by Henry Ross Wiggs of Westmount Que.
11 September 1971
Sources of data: Miss Helen Ross, Loretteville, Que., Mrs. J. D. Gemmill, Kelowna, B.C., Civil Archives, Quebec City.
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DRUMMOND ROSS (1816 - 1856?)
Drummond Ross was the third son of J. William Ross and Sarah Blow of the City of Quebec, where he was born. He was baptized on the 29th March, 1816, at St. Andrew's Church, Quebec. His father intended that he should study for the Bar, but because of poor health, he was sent to the country to regain his strength. There, he met and fell in love with the very young daughter of William and Margurette Beamish, who had emigrated from the north of Ireland.
On the 24th December, 1835, Drummond Ross and Jane Beamish were married in st. John's (Chalmers?) Church, Quebec City. They evidently resided for a few years at Pointe Levis, a small town across the St. Lawrence river, just below Quebec, where their two eldest sons, William D. F. Ross, was born in 1837, and Munro Ross Ross was baptized in the Anglican church on the 13th July, 1838. Later, they made their home "in the seigneury of lake Beauport in the County & District of Quebec", some thirteen miles north of the city, and he became a farmer. There, they had eight [seven] more children, five [four] boys and three girls. They were: R. B. Ross (Christian names and date of birth unknown), Drummond Ross, born 1840, Henry Ross, born 1842, Richard H. Ross, Samuel B. Ross, Clarissa Anne Ross, born 1850, Sarah Harriet Ross, born 1853, and Catherine Margaret Ross, born 1855.
[I have reason to believe that R. B. and Richard H. are the same person. See below.]
Drummond Ross, the father, died in 1856 or 1857, in his forties, leaving his young widow, not yet forty, to bring up their large family. However, soon after his death, she married again, her second husband being the Hon. Fleury Taschereau, son of Antoine Charles Taschereau (1797-1862), and Adelaide Elizabeth, daughter of Louis Fleury de la Gorgendiere, Seigneur of Deschambault, Quebec. He was one of twelve children. By him she had a son, Charles Fleury, and a daughter, Adelaide Jane, both born at Quebec. The son was baptized in the Anglican Cathedral, Quebec City, on 4th September, 1859, with Harriott Ross, William Ross, and Drummond Ross as sponsors.
Of the children of Drummond Ross, the eldest, William D. F. Ross, married (wife's name unknown) and at first resided at Pointe Levis where his son, William Edward Drummond Ross, was born on the 15th September, 1871. We have no record of the other members of his family. However, we know that sometime later William D. F. Ross and his family went west to take up residence at Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he died on the 18th January, 1902. Around 1911, his son and the other members of his family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, to reside there. Family Chart No. R-10 gives further information about William Edward Drummond Ross and his family.
The second son, Munro Ross Ross, born in 1838 at Pointe Levis, married Susan Ann Wiggs, daughter of Charles Wiggs and Sarah Locket (or Lockett) in 1860 at Quebec City, and by their marriage they united for the first time the Ross and the Wiggs families, which form the main branches of the two families contained in this "Family Record". They had three children, and their names, together with other information, are shown on Family Chart No. R-5.
Another son, Henry Ross, born at Lake Beauport in 1842, married Harriett Ann Sait at St. Matthew's Church, Quebec City, on the 23rd November, 1863, and they raised a family of thirteen children, one of whom was my mother, Emma Clara Ross, so for that reason, as well as others, we have devoted a great deal of time and effort delving into the history of this particular branch of the family. the biography of Henry Ross gives more information about him and his large family, and Family Chart No. R-6 shows names, dates, and other items about them.
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Of R. B. Ross (Christian names unknown) we have practically no record, except that he was known to have resided at one time at Luverne, Minnesota, where his three children were born; Ethel in 1886, Vivian in 1888, and Richard H. in 1889. Ethel Ross married someone named Helloran, and according to the records of the District Court of Rock County, Luverne, Minn., Vivian Ross married Ray Sartellon on February 12, 1914, and Richard H. Ross,
[I have reason to believe that R. B. and Richard H. are the same person. I have recently been contacted by a descendant of Richard Ross, who knows of him as "Richard Beamish Ross", but the dates match those of "Richard H. Ross", whom I had presumed to be Sr. because of his son being "Richard H. Ross, Jr." However, further research into Census and death records proves that the correct name is indeed Richard Beamish Ross, and that there is no Sr. or Jr. Also, in the bio of Edward Ernest Ross, posted March 18, 2011, Mr. Wiggs states that there were nine children of Drummond Ross, rather than ten. See update posted March 23, 2011.]
Clarissa Anne Ross, the eldest daughter of Drummond and Jane Ross, was born at Lake Beauport in 1850, and she married Charles Howard Jefferys in Trinity Church, Quebec, on the 5th July, 1873. They went to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised a family, but we know nothing of their children who are now all dead, excepting their daughter, Ethel, who married Harry Goodman, and now reside in Winnipeg. Family Chart No. R-7 gives some details.
The remaining children of Drummond and Jane Ross - Samuel B., Sarah Harriet and Catherine Margaret - were very young when their mother married a second time, and they accompanied their mother and their step-father when they left Quebec to venture west to take up residence at Pembina, North Dakota, where the parents settled for the rest of their lives.
Samuel B. Ross wen to St. Thomas, North Dakota, where he bought some one hundred and sixty acres of farmland, and died there on the 3rd October, 1890. He never married.
Sarah Harriet Ross married Patrick Ahern and they resided at St. Vincent, Minnesota, quite close to Pembine. They had three daughters, Bertha, Blanche and Jennie, and they were still very young when their mother died on Sunday morning, April 21st, 1889. The funeral service took place the following day at Grace Church, Pembina, thence to the Pembina cemetery for burial. Her three little girls were taken by their grandmother, Jane Taschereau, to live with her, but four months later she died, so the children then went to live with their mother's sister, Mrs. Albert Poston (Catherine Margaret Ross).
Catherine Margaret Ross was the youngest child of Drummond and Jane Ross. She was born at Lake Beauport, Quebec, in 1855. On the 5th July, 1883, at Pembina, she married Albert Henry Poston of Quebec City, and they took up residence at St. Vincent, Minn. Their first two children were borne there - Charles Albert in 1885, and Charlotte Ella in 1886. After her mother died in 1889, she took in her sister's three little girls mentioned in the previous paragraph. And when the Poston family left Pembine in 1889 or 1890 to go further west to Spokane, Washington, the three Ahern children went with them. At Spokane they had five more children, so their household must have been a busy one. As the information about them is quite extensive, it is all contained in the biography of Catherine Martaret Ross which appears elsewhere.
As for the children of Fleury and Jane Taschereau, their son, lived with them in Pembina and later went west to Spokane, where he married three times. His first two wives both died at childbirth, and by his third wife, Isobel Atkenson, he had seven children, one of which, Charles Samuel, married his half-cousin, Maude Isobel Poston, daughter of Albert and Catherine Poston.
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Adelaide Jane Taschereau, daughter of Fleury and Jane Taschereau, remained at home with her parents and never married. While still a young woman, she died of consumption and was buried in the Pembine cemetery. She was survived by her parents and her brother.
On Monday, August 19th, 1889, Jane Taschereau, "relict of the late Hon. Fleury Taschereau of Pembina, D. T.," died at St. Vincent at the age of sixty-five, and was buried in the family burial ground at Pembina. Her obituary, which appeared in the local paper at the time of her death paid high tribute to her. It stated, in part, She was survived by the following members of her family: William D. F. Ross of Winnipeg; Munro Ross Ross of Montreal; Henry Ross of Jeune Lorette, Quebec; R. B. Ross of Luberne, Minnesota; Mrs. Clarissa Anne Jefferys of Winnipeg; Mrs. Catherine Poston and Charles F. Taschereau of St. Vincent, Minnesota; and Samuel B. Ross of St. Thomas, North Dakota. Also by her son, Drummond Ross, whose whereabouts were unknown.
Although Mrs. Taschereau had been under medical attendance for weeks past, the news of her death on Tuesday last startled this community of which she had been the past several years a beloved and highly respected member.He was not yet twenty years old when his mother re-married, and it was said that he had an argument with his stepfather, Fleury Taschereau. He said he was going away and that they would never hear from him again. Many years later, someone sent his sister, Mrs. Catherein Poston, of Spokane, Washington, a clipping from the Quebec paper. It stated that a letter from South America, addressed to Fleury Taschereau, was at the dead letter office. Any relatives wishing to claim it, do so as he was dead.
During the past few weeks Dr. Harris was almost constantly in attendance, and all that medical skill could do was done, first to bring about recovery, at last to alleviate the pangs of mortal suffering.
To the last, Mrs. Taschereau retained great personal beauty, which, blended with great force of character, was acknowledged by everybody. She dwelt among her people: Mrs. Poston, Mr. S. B. Ross, Mr. C. Taschereau, and their beloved mother being inseparables, defying separation. Since the death of her daughter, Mrs. Ahern, her three little motherless grandchildren have lived with her, and there never has been a more model household. The affection of her children, at a time of their lives when most children neglect their parents, caused universal admiration, and they are today heirs of the blessing promised in the 5th commandment.
On Tuesday evening, at the service held in Christ Church by Bishop Gilbert, prayers were offered in behalf of the afflicted family. Wednesday, the remains were followed by sorrowing relatives and friends to the family burial ground at Pembina, where she was buried, Rector Beer reading the beautiful ritual of the Episcopal church.
Mrs. Poston sent the clipping to Charles F. Taschereau, son of Fleury Taschereau, asking him to write. He was so long in doing so, the letter had been destroyed. She regretted not having written herself, because she thought it was from her brother, Drummond. They never heard from him.
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