ROSS OF KILMUIR AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

(Please note: I am just working on this file, and warn you there may be mistakes in it)

Ewen Ross b. c1755 Kilmuir Skye, died before 1803  and Nancy Gillis b. 1756 Kilmuir died 1804 had children;

A1.John Ross b. 1790 died 1813 married in 1803 Mary Nicholson b. c1794 died 1813 d/o Old Donald Nicholson and Catherine McArthur. John Ross was murdered by John Nicholson and his son Samuel Nicholson at Flat River in 1813.
source: “The Island Magazine” fall/winter page 34-36
Children of John And Mary;
 B1.Ewen Ross b. Flat River 1807-jan 27 1861 m. in 1831 Fanny Macdonald 1793-1871, who came to PEI Aug 5 1830. (she was 14 years older than husband) She was sister to Isabella Macdonald who married Malcolm Lamont and emigrated to Lyndale PEI in 1829 on the Mary Kennedy. Malcolm and Isabella brought with them their children, and Isabella’s sister Fanny, and Malcolm’s nephew Murdoch Lamont. Children of Ewen Ross and Fanny Macdonald;
  C1.Ronald Ross b. Jan 13 1835 Flat River
  C2.Marion Ross
  C3.John Herbert Ross b. May 7 1833 died 1866 or 1886 m. Elizabeth   Macdonald b. sept 25 1833 Little Sands, died
        1884 d/o Magnus Macdonald. With children;
               D1.Ewen, deceased;
               D2.Magnus, b. sept 13 1861
               D3.John H., a farmer at Point Prim;
               D4.Sarah Catherine., in   Massachusetts;
               D5.Donald J.. a farmer at Flat River;
               D6.Hector, who resides with the subject;
               D7.Francis, deceased;
               D8.Alexander,  a carpenter at Flat River;
               D9. Florence. who resides in California.
              C4.Donald Ross b. july 1 1838
   source: PEI Past and Present, subject, Magnus Ross.

A2.Ewen Ross b. 1786 or 1788) Kilmuir Skye  m. Fanny Lamont b. 1792 with children;
     B1.Donald H. Ross b. 1812 married in 1836 Vernon River, Oliva Gay b. 1810 died
     march 9 1889  with children;
              C1.Daniel E. Ross b. 1847 died Dec 27 1923  m. Margaret E. Enman with children;
                       D1.Ira S. Ross
                       D2. Kestle Ross
              C2.Lewis Gay Ross b. Aug 6 1837 Vernon River died 1921 m. feb 20 1866
              in Montague Catherine Mellish with children born in Montague;
                   D1.Margaret Elizabeth Mackay Ross b. may 11 1870
                   D2.George Wellington Ross b. sept 23 1876
                   D3.Prisilla Olivia Gay Ross b. jan 6 1867
                   D4.Charles Ethelbert Ross b. jan 13 1881
                   D5.Isabella Anne Ross b. aug 27 1868
                   D6.William Ernest Ross b. dec 29 1871
                   D7.Neil Seymour Ross b. april 29 1878
                   D8.Lewis Arthur Herbert Ross b. june 1 1888 Dundas PEI
          C3.Mary Alice Ross b. 1840 died 1878 age 38 yrs Vernon River
          C4.John Ross b. 1842 died 1895 age 53, m. Mary Macmillan
          C5.Catherine Ross b. 1847 died 1930 age 85 Vernon River
          C6.Neil Ross b. 1850 died Feb 24 1870 age 20 Vernon River
source: Arlene, arlene@kos.net, descendants of Ewen Ross and Fanny Lamont

A3.Catherine Ross b. c1792 m. Samuel Martin b. c1792

A4. Donald Ross b. 1784 died march 12 1866 Flat River age 82 years, m. Christina Macdonald b. 1793 Scotland died may 3 1853 age 60 yrs, with children;
     B1.Mary Ross b. c1818 Flat River died Nov 5 1884 married Ronald Lamont  b.
     c1799 died feb 1 1896 Victoria Cross PEI s/o Malcolm Lamont and Isabella  Macdonald. With children;
              C1.Elizabeth Lamont m. Malcolm Mackinnon of Uigg.
              C2.Christina Lamont m. in 1881 Roderick Macdonald of Murray Harbour
              C3.Sarah Lamont died unmarried.
              C4.Donald Lamont m. Miss Maceachern.
              C5.Malcolm Lamont  was noted on Oct 12 1882 as being in Dundas PeI. He m.  Catherine Cantello on Oct 12
                1882  Ch’town. With children;
                       D1..Son Lamont was noted as being a Barrister in Winnipeg. He m. ? with children;
                                E1.Son Lamont, noted in Winnipeg, also a Barrister. In the “Lamonts of PEI” it was noted that this son was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and also in his father’s firm of Lamont & Swystun, Barristers of Winnipeg Manitoba.

          C6.Angus Lamont b. 1851, died Oct 18 1947 in Victoria Cross PeI. He. m. Christina Macleod b. 1855 died 1948, both buried Montague Community Cemetery, PEI. Christina was d/o Donald Macleod and Mary Macdonald of Victoria Cross PEI. Rev. J. H. Bishop states that Donald was a son of Murdoch Macleod and Jane Auld of Mermaid PEI. Christina was twin sister of James Macleod b. 1851 died 1948.With children;
                   D1.Angus Lamont died June 15 1896 in Victoria Cross PeI.
                   D2.Silas Lamont a contruction supervisor, he was a veteran of WW1, and died  in Edmonton Alberta unmarried.
                   D3.James Lamont, owner of Poole Construction Co., Regina. He married late in life,  no children.
                   D4.Elizabeth Lamont died in her 20’s, buried Orwell Head PEI.
                   D5.Mary Lamont b. 1890 died 1976, she worked for a bank in Ch’town, was twin to William R., buried in
                    Montague Community Cemetery PEI.
                   D6.William R. Lamont b. 1890, died 1952, twin to Mary, he was a farmer and was never married, buried in
                    Montague Community Cemetery, PEI.

 B2?) Ewen Ross b. 1827 Flat River died aug 18 1898 m. Anne Macleod b. 1831
 died june 7 1915 with children born in Flat River;
      C1.Donald Ewen Ross b. c1864 Flat River m. Christina Catherine Macleod b. may 15 1866 Flat River died Sept 19
        1948  d/o Angus Macleod and Jessie Mackenzie with children;
               D1.Anne Ross b. 1892 Flat River
               D2.Christina Ross
               D3.Jessie Ross
               D4.Angus Ross
               D5.Lachlan Ross
               D6.Garfield Ross
               D7.Donalda Ross
               D8.Charles Ross
               D9.Frank Martin Ross b. 1895 died 1896 age 1 year

A5.Angus Ross b. 1790 Kilmuir Skye died 1863,  m in 1817. Mary Polly Laird b.7 Jan 1794 Vernon River, Queens County, Pei  Christening:  23 Mar 1794 St Paul's Church, Charlottetown, Queens County, Pei  Death: 2 Feb 1866 Vernon River, Queens County, Pei  Burial: Vernon Bridge, Ross Property, Queens County, Pei she was d/o James Laird and the widow Enman.
Source: HARRY STOREY  4 DRIFTWOOD LANE  SAINT JOHN, N.B., CANADA   E2M 5L4 ancestral file descendants of Ewen Ross and Nancy Gillis

A7.Murdoch Ross b. c1794

A8.Anne Ross  Birth: 1786 Kilmuir, Isle Of Skye, Inverness, Scotland Death:  24 May 1877  Burial:  Vernon River, Memorial, Queens County, Pei, Canada m. in 1810 John Furness 1783 Kendal, Westmorland, EnglandDeath: 4 Nov 1875Vernon River, Queens County, Pei Burial: Vernon River, Memorial, Queens County, Pei, Canada
source: www.familysearch.or ancestral file HARRY STOREY  4 DRIFTWOOD LANE   SAINT JOHN, N.B., CANADA   E2M 5L
With probable children;
 B1.John Furness b. c1827 PEI m. Catherine Vaniderstine b. c1831 Vernon PEI
 with children;
        C1 Margaret Furness b. 1853 Vernon PEI died 1890 Vernon PEI m. in 1886 William Huntly b. july 18 1851 died aug
        26 1924 s/o Henry Huntly and Jane Kiely with children;
               D1.Walter Edgar Huntly b. may 24 1878 Vernon PEI Canada
               D2.Herbert Wellington Huntley
               D3 William Ernest Huntley
               D4.Catherine Jane Huntley
               D5.Mattie Helena Huntley
               D6.John Furness Huntley
               D7.Louis D. Huntley
source: www.familysearch.org ancestral file, ROBERTA J. DREWES Microfilm: 1394167  9107 LOCKSLEY ROAD  FT WASHINGTON MD  USA 20744

A9.Daughter Ross b. c1798 m. Peter Macdonald b. c1798

A10.Flora Ross b. c1793 m. John Macleod b. c1789
Source: Donald Smith Ross 2629 1/2 East 18th St. Bremerton Wash USA 98310, descendants of Donald H. Ross and Olivia Gay

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