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Family Chart No. R-5 Parents - Chart No. R-3
3rd Generation Ross Family
MONRO ROSS ROSS
son of DRUMMOND and MARIA JANE (BEAMISH) ROSS
was born 1838 at Lake Beauport, Quebec
Baptized at Anglican Church, Levis, Quebec 13 Jul 1838
died 27 July 1904 at Montreal, Que.
buried at Montreal in Mount Royal cemetery
Resided at Quebec City them moved to Montreal
Occupation: Cabinet maker. He created some very fine carved pulpits in some of the large churches in Montreal
He was one of nine children, his brother HENRY ROSS being the maternal grandfather of HENRY ROSS WIGGS, the compiler of this record.
He married SUSAN ANN WIGGS
1860, at Metropolitan Church, Quebec City
daughter of CHARLES and SUSAN (LOCKET) WIGGS
she was born 1836
died 22 February 1889 at Montreal, Que.
buried at Montreal in Mount Royal cemetery
She had a brother, WILLIAM WIGGS (1830-1865) who married SARAH HANCORN (1826-1888), and they were the paternal grandparents of the compiler of this record.
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Children of MUNRO and SUSAN (WIGGS) ROSS:
HARRIET LOUISA
Born 31 December 1860 at Quebec City
Married ALFRED F. HOUSTON 1887, who came from Edinburgh, Scotland.
They had 3 children:
DOROTHY MARGARET born 6 November 1896
ROBERT GORDON born 9 September 1901, died at Montreal 6 September 1907
CHARLES EDGAR born 9 September 1901, died at Sechelt, B. C. 30 June 1971
she died 29 December 1949 at Vancouver, British Columbia
MONRO CHARLES Born at Quebec City; Baptized 1 June 1862
Never married. Died 23 April 1862 at Chicago, Illinois
Buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Que.
WILLIAM WIGGS Born at Quebec, Que., baptized 17 September at Anglican Church, Levis.
Married twice. 1st wife
had a son CHARLES, who died of typhoid fever at age of seven or eight.
2nd. wife ANNA.
He died 1935 at Los Angeles, California, and predeceased his second wife by some
10 years.
This record was compiled by Henry Ross Wiggs of Westmount Que.
22 April 1971
Sources of data: Mrs. Dorothy M. (Houston) MacLaren, Vancouver, B. C. and records of the Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Que. Verified in part at Civil Archives, Quebec City, 20 August 1971
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MUNRO ROSS ROSS (1839 - 1904)
Munro Ross Ross was the son of Drummond Ross and Maria Jane Beamish his wife who resided in the Seigneury of Lake Beauport, in the County and District of Quebec, where Munro was born in 1859. He was one of nine children, one of his brothers, Henry Ross, being my maternal grandfather.
Munro Ross married Susan Ann Wiggs, daughter of Charles Wiggs and Sarah Locket Wiggs of Quebec City, and by their marriage the Ross and the Wiggs families of Quebec were united for the first time. Susan Ann's brother, William Wiggs, was my paternal grandfather, and when his son, William Henry Wiggs, who was my father, married my mother, Emma Clara Ross, oldest daughter of Henry Ross, the two families were again united for the second time. I like to think that I, with the name Henry Ross Wiggs, am another link between the two families.
When they were first married, Munro and Susan Ross resided in Quebec City where their first two children were born, Harriet Louise, born the 31st December, 1860, and Munro Charles in 1863. They moved to Montreal to take up residence there and it is not known whether their third child, William Wiggs, was born before or after they made the move because there is no record of his birth.
Munro Ross was a very good cabinet maker and he created some fine pulpits with excellent carving in one or more large churches in Montreal. His wife died suddenly on the 22nd February, 1889, at the comparatively early age of 53 years, and was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. He remarried shortly after, but nothing is known of his second wife.
In 1887 his daughter, Harriet Louise, married Alfred F. Houston who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and received his education in England. After its completion he emigrated to Montreal, Canada, to join his widowed mother, she having preceded him accompanied by his elder brother, Robert, and a younger sister, Margaret. Harriet Louise and Alfred had three children - Dorothy Margaret, born 6th November, 1896, and twin boys, Charles Edgar and Robert Gordon, born 9th September, 1901. Gordon died of diphtheria on the 6th September, 1907, and was buried in the Ross family lot in Mount Royal cemetery.
Munro Ross Ross died at Montreal on the 27th July, 1904, and was buried in Mount Royal cemetery. Sometime after his death, the Houston family left Montreal to make their home in Vancouver, British Columbia, where the two children completed their education. Edgar then migrated to the southern United States, returning later to Vancouver with his wife and baby son, Owen. Dorothy married William James Roy MacLaren in Vancouver on the 27th June, 1925. They had a son, Loyd, [Lloyd?] born the 22nd November, 1926.
Through the years, the summer cottage built on Gambier Island became a family gathering place and has sheltered four generations. The first break came when Roy MacLaren lost his life in a canoe accident on the 27th June, 1928. He had gone to Calgary on business, and decided before returning to paddle down the Bow River from Banff to Calgary. Although an expert paddler, due to Spring flooding, the condition of the river was extremely hazardous, causing his tragic death. His companion survived.
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Alfred Houston died in Vancouver the 13th November, 1932, and his wife, Harriet Louise Houston, died there the 29th December, 1949. They were both buried in Mountain View cemetery. As this biography is being written in 1971, their daughter, Dorothy MacLaren, continues to live in Vancouver, and I am indebted to her for furnishing the information about her family. She and I last met when, as a young girl, she visited my home at "Hessel Grove" in Quebec City. Her mother was a first cousin of both my father's and my mother's, because of the marriage of Munro Ross and Susan Ann Wiggs.
Munro Charles Ross, son of Munro Ross Ross, never married. He died at Chicago, Illinois, on the 23rd April, 1918, and the body was brought back to Montreal for burial in the Ross family lot in Mount Royal cemetery. His younger brother, William Wiggs Ross, on the other hand married twice, but the names of his two wives are unknown. By his first wife he had a son, Charles (Charlie), and she deserted him when their child was very young, leaving the father with the child. However, when the little boy was seven or eight, he died of typhoid fever. Much later, William Wiggs Ross remarried and lived happily with his second wife, a fine American lady known by the family as "Aunt Anna". He died at Los Angeles, California, in 1935, having predeceased his wife by some ten years.
Edgar Houston, son of Alfred and Louise Houston, married Marie Hagood in Flagstaff, Arizona, on the 3rd July, 1930, and they went to Vancouver in 1935. They had two sons - [names and details of possibly living persons and their children omitted] Edgar Houston lived on Gambier Island, near Vancouver, in the cottage which his father had built in 1920. On the 29th June, 1971, he suffered a massive stroke and passed away at 6 a.m. the following day.
25th July, 1971 H. Ross Wiggs
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