Margaret Ross

  General Notes:

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I am researching the family of my great great grandmother, Margaret ROSS, who married Alexander MCLEOD in the parish of Kincardine, Ross-shire (now Ross and Cromarty), Scotland, in 1866. Alexander and Margaret MCLEOD then emigrated to South Australia, where they had 3 sons.

Margaret ROSS came from a small village named Amat, in Ross-shire, and her parents were Thomas ROSS, a farmer, and Margaret MCGREGOR. The 1851 Census reveals the following information:

Parish of Kincardine
Quoad Sacra Parisk of Croick

Census Place - Amat

Thomas ROSS, head, married, age 50, farmer of 2 acres
Margaret ROSS, wife, married, age 48, farmer's wife
Margaret ROSS, daughter, age 14, scholar
Robert ROSS, son, age 12, scholar
Gustavius ROSS, son, age 9, scholar
Catherine ROSS, daughter, age 7, scholar

I would love to hear from anybody researching this ROSS family.

Thanks, and best wishes,

Nick Batley
Sydney, Australia

nickbatley@hotmail.com

Margaret Ross, aged 18 years, daughter of Thomas Ross, tenant, Amat-na-tnath, was most shamefully and brutally used by the police. Margaret was a very nice young girl, healthy and active, and a general favorite in the district. On hearing that the police were on their way to Greenyard, Margaret ran away from her father's house, and, being swift of feet, she was not long in reaching Greenyard, and, falling in with the other females who went out to meet the police, she then took up her place in the crowd. When the police rushed in upon the defenseless females, striking them with their batons, Margaret had nothing to defend herself with but her bare arms. She soon saw a number of her companions leveled to the ground with the blows given by the police; and just when trying to assist a women who lay weltering in her blood, she was attacked by the police, one of whom struck her three violent blows with his baton across the breasts. Notwithstanding this, she ran across a field, pursued by the police; but, her strength failing her, she plunged into a thicket, where the police followed her, but could not use their batons, owing to the bushes. One of them, however, kicked her in the head with his shoe, another kicked her feet, and, being most inhumanly tortured in this manner, she crept out from beneath the bushes and tried again to escape. But the police pursued her, and one of them struck her three or four times with his baton across the shoulders, which brought her prostrate to the ground, and there she lay gasping for breath! The police now proceeded to put handcuffs upon her, and one of them actually placed his knee upon her breast, while adjusting and holding up her hands, while another put them in irons. Reader, do not fancy that I exaggerate in the least. Exaggeration is impossible, far the savage brutality with which the police acted cannot be described. The marks of the batons on the breast and across the shoulders of this young female were like drills. The flesh was mangled, and the shoulder blade shattered. Margaret at the time had no corset on, and nothing intervened between her flesh and the hard ash batons of the police, but her shift and a thin cotton morning gown. On the 14th instant, when I visited this girl in her father's house, I found her in a recumbent position on a couch, and very weak. Her face is very pale, and she is frequently annoyed with vomiting of blood of a blackish colour. It is perfectly evident in this case that the internal organs of the chest have been ruptured, so that, however long this young women may linger on, she will never recover from the injuries she received



1841
Amatnatuath
ross thomas 35 m roc
ross margaret 35 f roc
ross peggy 5 f roc
ross robert 3 m roc

33 amat 1851
ross thomas head m 50 farmr 2 acres roccroick
ross margaret wife m 48 roccroick
ross margaret dau u 14 scholar roccroick
ross robert son u 12 scholar roccroick
ross gustavus son - 9 scholar roccroick
ross catherine dau - 7 scholar roccroick

  Birth Notes:

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  Noted events in her life were:

• Census: amat, 1841, Amatnatua, Croick, Ross County. aged 5

• Census: amat, 1851, Amat, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty. ²⁵ aged 14

Margaret married Alexander Macleod, son of John Macleod and Christina Munro, on 9 Mar 1866 in Strathcarron School House, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty.²⁹ (Alexander Macleod was born about 1839 and died on 8 Nov 1885 in Adelaide, SA, Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

he was 27 she was 28 witness her brother gustavus ross and a william macleod probably his brother