Grace Ross

  General Notes:

cawadl ross william m 45 weaver roc
ross anne f 45 roc
ross george m 15 roc
ross donald m 15 roc
ross grace f 9 roc
ross william m 6 roc
ross donald m 50 farmer roc
mckay william m 60 merchant roc


THIS IS THE GRACE ROSS METIONED IN PRBBLES BOOK

4:05 ROSS William 59 Head
4:05 ROSS Donald 26
4:05 ROSS Catherine 20
4:05 ROSS Grace 18
4:05 ROSS William 15
4:05 ROSS Catherine 8


5 19 syal 1851

ross william head w 59 wool weaver
ross donald son u 26 laborer
ross william son u 15 scholar
ross catherine dau u 20 emp home
ross grace dau u 18 emp home
ross catherine visitr - 8 scholar

Grace Ross aged 20 years, daughter of William Ross, Ca-dearg, a very respectable young girl, and noted in the district for her clean and tidy appearance, as well an for her good conduct and amiable disposition. Grace had not the remotest idea of offering resistance to any human being, and her appearance at Greenyard at all at the time was purely accidental. She was looking on, a mere spectator, when a fierce-looking policeman came up and struck her a savage blow with his baton on the forehead, which felled her, as if a common shot had gone through her heart. Such was the force with which the blow was given that it caused a cut four inches long, exposing the skull, shattering the frontal bone, and carrying into the fissures pieces of the cap that was on the poor girl's head. This blow caused concussion end compression of the brain, and for a few minutes she lay quite insensible. After she was able to crawl, she moved away in the direction of a wood; but the police, on noticing her, came back, and began again to beat her. She was struck several times on the back end shoulders; and being fearfully wounded by the blows she received, she ran into the river until the water reached her waist, and there she stood. The police remained at a distance watching her. Her clothing, such of it was appeared above the water, was completely red with blood; and her appearance was one of the most melancholy sights ever seen is a Christian country. At last the police moved away, and then the poor girl got out of the river; but she was so exhausted that she fell prostrate upon a sand bank, and appeared so if dead. Parties who had come now to the Langwell side of the river, seeing Grace lying on a bank on the opposite side, joined hands and plunged into the stream, and waded their way over. They lifted her up and brought her over, and thence they conveyed her to her father's house. She is still in a dangerous state.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 1851, Syall, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty. ¹²⁰

• Census: 1861 Census, F. C. School, Kincardine Parish, Ross-shire, 1861, Syall, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty. aged 26

• Census, 1871, Cawdearg, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty. ⁵³ aged 34

• Census, 1901, Cawdearg, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty. ⁵⁵ aged 67

Grace married George McKAY on 9 Nov 1866 in Kincardine.⁵² (George McKAY was born in 1831 in Creich, Sutherland ⁵⁵ and died on 4 May 1911 in Cawdearg, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty ¹¹⁹.)

  Marriage Notes:

was living with father and single in 1861