Naomi Ross

  General Notes:

was this the naomi ross mentinied in the massacare ofthe rosses in 1854
may have died 1877 aged 47 - to be checked

1877 ROSS NAOMI MACGREGOR F 47 KINCARDINE ROSS AND CROMARTY 071/A1 0018


Naomi Ross, aged 24 years, daughter of Hugh Ross, tenant in Langwell, Strathcarron, was fearfully cut on the head and shoulders. The fact is, the scalp is completely battered in; besides, she has three or four most ugly cuts on the front and side of her head. After the poor girl was knocked down, a monster of a policeman kicked her. Nothing in savage life could exceed the brutality of the police in this case, for, although this girl was covered with blood, and the ground around her red with it, no mercy was shown to her; on the contrary, she was most violently kicked on the breast, and also in the most delicate part of her person. She was carried off the field, and has never left her since; and it is my firm belief that she will never recover from the injuries she received. The testimony of her neighbours, and of many respectable people in the district, respecting her, goes to confirm this, that a more inocent, more, inoffensive, or a more respectable, young girl, could not be found within the range of their acquaintance. Had poor Naomi been wandering on the banks of the Danube, and had been ill-used there, I could understand it, but in Christian Scotland to be butchered alive, who can think of it without a blush of shame coming over his cheek?