Ross Surname History

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SURNAME MEANING
A Scottish habitational surname denoting a person from any of the places named Ross or Roos(e), such as Roose, co. Lancashire and Roos, East Yorkshire. These places names derive from the Welsh word rhos meaning “moor, heath, or plain”, the Gaelic word ros, meaning “promontory”, or the Norse word hross, meaning “horse”, or the Middle English rous, meaning “red-haired”.
A Scottish habitational surname denoting a person from any of the places named Ross or Roos(e), such as Roose, co. Lancashire and Roos, East Yorkshire. These places names derive from the Welsh word rhos meaning “moor, heath, or plain”, the Gaelic word ros, meaning “promontory”, or the Norse word hross, meaning “horse”, or the Middle English rous, meaning “red-haired”.
EARLY BEARERS
A Scottish habitational surname denoting a person from any of the places named Ross or Roos(e), such as Roose, co. Lancashire and Roos, East Yorkshire. These places names derive from the Welsh word rhos meaning “moor, heath, or plain”, the Gaelic word ros, meaning “promontory”, or the Norse word hross, meaning “horse”, or the Middle English rous, meaning “red-haired”.
CLAN ROSS
Clan Ross is a Highland Scottish clan. The original chiefs of the clan were the original Earls of Ross. The first recorded chief of the Clan Ross was "Fearcher Mac an t-Sagirt" which in English meant "son of the priest" alluding to his Ó Beólláin descent from the hereditary Abbots of Applecross. He helped King Alexander II of Scotland (1214-1249) crush a rebellion by Donald Bane, a rival claimant to the Scottish throne. Fearchar was knighted by the king and by 1234 he was officially recognized with the title of Earl of Ross. The clan seat is Balnagown Castle.
NOBLE TITLES HELD
The title of Lord Ross was a Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1499 for Sir John Ross, of Halkhead (d. 1501), “one of three Scottish champions in a tournament against the Burgundians”, Keeper of Blackness Castle
LANDED GENTRY
Ross of Dunmoyle
Ross of Bladensburg of Rosstrevor, co. Down
Ross of Cromarty
Ross of Pitcalnie
Ross of Ross Hill, co. Clare
NOTABLES
Major-General Robert Ross (1766-1814) was an Irish officer in the British Army who served in the Napoleonic Wars and its theatre in North America in the War of 1812, son of Major David Ross, an officer in the Seven Years’ War
Sir John Ross (1777-1856) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer, son of Rev. Andrew Ross of Balsarroch
Sir James Clark Ross (1800-1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer known for his explorations of the Arctic
The Hon. David Ross, Lord Ankerville (1727-1805) was an 18th-century Scottish lawyer who rose to be a Senator of the College of Justice.
Field Marshal Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross (1779-1868) was a British Army officer. After seeing active service during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, he fought as a troop commander in many of the battles of the Peninsular War and the Hundred Days.
Major-General Patrick Ross (1740-1804), military engineer in Madras, second son of Patrick Ross of Inverneth
Sir William Charles Ross (1794-1860) was an English portrait and portrait miniature painter of Scottish descent; early in his career, he was known for historical paintings. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1842.
John Ross (1719-1792) was an English Bishop of Exeter.
George Ross Jr (1730-1779) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Ness MacBean Ross (1878-1915) was a Scottish physician who worked in Persia (presently Iran) among the Bakhtiari people. With training and a post-graduate qualification in tropical medicine, she responded to an appeal for doctors by the Serbian government in 1915 and treated Serbian casualties, most of whom were victims of typhus.
EARLY SETTLERS
Daniel Ross - Boston - 1651
Andreas Ross - New York - 1710
Charles Ross - South Carolina - 1716
Christopher Ross - Pennsylvania - 1738
Jean Ross - New York - 1738
Catherine Ross - Nova Scotia - 1773
Christina Ross - Nova Scotia - 1773
Donald Ross - Nova Scotia - 1773
Janet Ross - Nova Scotia - 1773

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There was also an highlander officer named William Ross that settled in Quebec after the Seven year war.

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Do you know about the ancestry of William Ross? My mother has him in her ancestry.

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I think William's mother was Helen Bayne. Father Alexander Ross.
William married Marie Josephte Proulx. My line is from their son Laughlin Ross and Anne Marie Modeste Choret (Charest).