Hugh Ross. I only needed to mention that name and my father would say something along the lines of: “He was colour blind so he never passed out higher than bosun.” Hugh (1849-1927) was his great uncle, an older brother of his grandfather, John, both children of Upper Seatter, North Walls, Orkney. Documentary evidence With | more…
Some weeks ago I wrote about Jemima Ross who died at sea between Sri Lanka and St Helena after giving birth to a son James. This week, he is my focus, under the #52 ancestors theme “So very far away”. James Bruce Birth His father George S Bruce was a master mariner and his mother | more…
The “Burmese gong” stood on a shelf at my parents’ house for as long as I can remember. I knew that “hid cam fae [it came from] Thistlebank” but little more. Perhaps it is not even Burmese. The man who brought | more…
