Mary Jane (MacMillan) Ross 1856-1937 Gladys (Ross) Down coll. John MacLennan Ross 1853-1927 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 , 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 452