Thursday, February 24, 2011

WILLIAM ROSS (Chart R-2 & biography)

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Family Chart No. R-2

     2nd Generation                                   ROSS Family

WILLIAM ROSS

son of J. WILLIAM and SARAH (BLOW) ROSS
was born 14 April 1795 at Montreal, Quebec
died 22 July 1858 at Toronto, Ontario

Resided at Quebec City, Montreal (?) and Toronto

Occupation: Deputy Clerk Assistant of the Legislative Assembly of Canada

He married HARRIOTT THOMPSON. 

she was born 11 January 1804 at Quebec City
and died 1895 at Ottawa, Ontario, at age of 91.
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Children of WILLIAM and HARRIOTT (THOMPSON) ROSS:

HARRIOTT, born 16 Mar 1827 at Quebec
     Married GEORGE HENRY LANE, Deputy-Registrar of the Province of Canada.
     children: AMY and FLORENCE
     died 10 Mar 1904

EMMA MARENA AMELIA, Baptized 17 Oct 1830 at Quebec
     died 8 Jul 1831

WILLIAM BLOW, born 10 May 1832 at Quebec
     Married JANET LUGO FRASER 15 Nov 1855 at Quebec
     children:  FREDERICK JOSEPH, baptized 1 Jan 1860
                    FRANCES HARRIOTT, baptized 11 mar 1861
                    CLARA, baptized 11 Jul 1863

CHRISTINA ISABELLA ELISABETH, born 16 Feb 1834 at Quebec
     died 5 Jun 1860 at Quebec

OCTAVIUS, baptized 12 Oct 1836
     died 5 Jun 1860 at Quebec

ALLAN NAPIER, born 16 Aug 1841 at Quebec
     died 1 Apr 1883

DAVID HENRY, born 12 Oct 1846 at Montreal
     died at Quebec

This record was compiled by Henry Ross Wiggs of Westmount, Que. 22 September 1971
Sources of data: Old letters loaned by Miss Hellen Ross, Loretteville, Que., and records at Civil Archives, Quebec City.
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WILLIAM ROSS  (1795-1858)

     William Ross, son of J. William Ross and Sarah Blow, was born at Montreal, Province of Lower Canada, on the 14th April, 1795.  He was Deputy Clerk Assistant to the Legislative Assembly of Canada.  He married Harriott Thompson who was born at Quebec City on the 11th January, 1804, and they had seven children - Harriott, Ema Marena Amelia, William Blow, Christina Isabella Elisabeth, Octavius, Allen Napier and David Henry.

     The eldest daughter, Harriott, was born on the 16th March, 1827, at Quebec, and she married George Henry Lane, Deputy-Registrar of the Province of Canada.  They had two daughters, Amy and Florence.  Florence married a Mr. Pope (?) and they raised a family but we have no knowledge of them, except that they resided at Ottawa, Ontario.  In five letters, written between 1924 and 1926 by Florence to her cousin, Ella Ross at Loretteville, Quebec, she gave a great deal of information about her grandparents, J. William and Sarah Ross, and her mother's family which has been very helpful in writing about this branch of the Ross family.  She also revealed that the motto on the Ross crest was "Fide et Fiducia" (Faithful and True).

     William Blow Ross, their son, was born on the 10th may, 1832, at Quebec, and he married Janet Lugo Fraser on the 15th November, 1855, at Quebec.  They had three children: Frederick Joseph (b. 1860), Francis Harriott (b. 1861), and Clara (b. 1863).  In a letter, written by Florence and dated 15th November, 1924, she wrote "Aunt Lugo is ninety-three you know, but quite bright yet and loves to see company, looks remarkably well too."

     Of the other five children of William and Harriott (Thompson) Ross, we only know the dates of their birth and death, and this information is shown on Family Chart No. R-2.

     William Ross died on the 22nd July, 1858, at Toronto, Ontario, and his wife, Harriott, died in 1895 at Ottawa, Ontario, at the venerable age of 91.  We have no further knowledge of this branch of the Ross family.

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