Mary Jane (MacMillan) Ross John MacLennan Ross 1856-1937 1853-1927 Gladys (Ross) Down coll. Gladys (Ross) Down coll.

John MacLennan Ross began his career as a carpenter apprentice, building boats at Mount Stewart, where his uncle James was a teacher. Later, at some time after 1871, he moved to Covehead to work under James Auld. Here he met and married, on March 3, 1875, Mary Jane MacMillan (b. 1856, d. 5 Sept., 1937), daughter of Angus MacMillan and his wife Sarah Leitch; they had eight children born in Stanhope. In the 1881 census, John, listed as a carpenter, and Mary Jane, with their one year old daughter Maude, were living next to his father-in-law on the Stanhope peninsula. Later on, the family lived in a home on a piece of Hudson land opposite Leitch’s. We think that John built this house, which was later rented to Angus Jarvis, and later still occupied by John’s son Watson Ross.

Children of John MacL. and Mary Jane (MacMillan) Ross

1. Sarah Priscilla Maude, b. 26 Dec., 1879 in Stanhope, d. 14 Dec., 1968, m. ca. 1903 to Louis Shaw (b. 1869, d. 24 Jan., 1933). No C.

2. James Rupert, b. 25 Mar., 1881 in Stanhope, d. 15 Aug., 1967, m. 4 Feb., 1914 to Sarah Belle MacKinnon (b. 9 Dec., 1886, d. 23 Nov., 1930), dau. of Donald and Katherine MacKinnon of Pleasant Grove, 2 c., see below. Rupert was a farmer and fisherman; he and his wife are buried in West Covehead cemetery.

3. William Hudson (Will), b. 25 May, 1884, in Stanhope, d. 9 Dec., 1970, m. Apr., 1945 to Clara May “Katie” Youland, b. 27 Oct., 1898, dau. of Clement Youland

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