Christy/Christian Ross ⁴⁰

  General Notes:

greenyard 1851
ross john head m m 62
ross christian wife m f 45
ross janet sister u f 60
ross charles son u m 19
ross peter son u m 17
ross hugh son - m 10
ross john son - m 4
ross helen dau u f 13

Christina Ross, aged 50 years, wife of John Ross, tenant, Greenyard, and the mother of eight children, wan most shamefully and inhumanly treated. Her husband is one of the tenants who was summoned to remove. He paid £10 lOs.6d. of yearly rent for 26 years, and is not one farthing in arrears. Mrs. Ross was most anxious to see if the Sheriff had any written authority from Mr. Munro for serving them with summonses, and she was for showing to him a letter written by Munro, and addressed to Major Robertson, the proprietor, denying that he ever authorised, or would be responsible for these removals. Labouring under the impression that the Sheriff would listen to her, she went out, and was the first to meet him at the march. She essayed to speak, but was not listened to, and in less than a minute she had three batons beating on her heed; her mutch was cut through, end her face, breast, and shoulders were red with blood. She got a severe kick on the back of the heed, which raised a large lump on it, and she had other serious bruises and cuts on other parts of her body. After she had lain on the field for nearly half-an-hour, the police came round, and made a prisoner of her, and lodged her in jail. Independent of the personal injuries sustained in this case, reason has been thrown completely off her seat, and the victim is now insane- in short, a maniac.

Christy/Christian married John Ross, son of Donald Ross and Catharine Ross. (John Ross was born in 1784 in Greenyards, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty, died on 18 Jul 1860 in Greenyards, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty ⁴¹ and was buried in Kincardine Cemetery.)