Albert John Ross (cir1877-1950)
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Albert John Ross | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 12, 1880 |
| Died | May 14, 1950 (aged 69) |
| Burial place | Woodlawn Cemetery, Ferndale, Whatcom County, Washington |
| Y-DNA | R Haplogroup - Family 01 |
| Residence | • Snohomish County, Washington • Whatcom County, Washington |
| Immigration | April 1896 |
| Spouse(s) | Angela Marie O'Neill (1887-1954) |
| Family | Roses of Hants, Nova Scotia |
| Mother | Matilda I. Barbrick (1853-1925) |
| Father | Thomas Stewart Rose (1841-1911) |
| Public trees (may need correction) | |
| FamilySearch | GSVB-B15 |
Albert John Ross (b. 1877 or 1880 – d. 1950) was a Nova Scotia-born emigrant to Washington State. A documented male-line descendant of Albert has taken a Y-DNA test, the results of which are a key representative sample for the documented descent of Hugh Rose, 9th of Kilravock, within the Ross Surname Project. Albert's own marriage record and death certificate name his parents incorrectly; a full account of how his documented parentage was established is given under Research notes below.
DNA evidence
Y-DNA
A male-line descendant of Albert has taken a Y-DNA test, using the most thorough test currently available (Big Y). This is the only Big Y-tested descendant of Hugh Rose, 9th of Kilravock currently in the Ross Surname Project, and this descendant's pedigree was published in Charles Brashear's Descendants of Francis Ross (2011) as an example of a documented Rose-to-Ross line descending from the Kilravock family in Scotland.[1]
This result is a genetic match to several other tested descendants of a documented line from Hugh, 9th of Kilravock's, brother, John Rose, 1st of Ballivat, down through the American immigrant Rev. Robert Rose (d. 1751). This kind of match is exactly how Y-DNA testing confirms a documented pedigree: two lines, each independently traced on paper down to a shared ancestor (Hugh Rose, 8th of Kilravock), converge genetically right where the paper trail says they should. Beyond Hugh 8th, it is assumed – based on the published, though not primary-source-verified, Kilravock pedigree – that he inherited this same Y-chromosome from his own ancestor, Hugh Rose, 1st of Kilravock (d. c. 1306), but this remains an assumption rather than something Y-DNA testing has independently confirmed, since no other documented Kilravock branch old enough to test against Hugh 1st himself has yet been identified.
This test is also a close match to descendants of James Ross of Frederick County, Virginia (an Ulster immigrant, d. 1751) and his great-grandson Arthur B. Ross of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana (b. 1789). Both men are now confirmed, through this match, to descend from Hugh Rose, 9th of Kilravock as well – though exactly where their line branches off from Albert's own remains unknown, and further testing would be needed to narrow it down. Nothing in either family's paper records previously connected them to Albert's Nova Scotia Roses or to Kilravock at all.
This Kilravock group is descended from R1b-L21, known as the Atlantic Celtic branch. These peoples had reached what is now Germany by 2500 BCE and had crossed over to Britain by about by 2100 BCE.[2] This is not to say that the Kilravock line made its way to Britain 4,000 years ago and remained there. It's entirely possible that there were additional migrations that placed them back in the area of Normandy at the time of the Conquest as is postulated by later historians. While Y-DNA testing has not yet refuted this theory, it also has not confirmed it. More testing is needed.
Biography
Early life
Albert (John) Ross was born in the Maitland district of East Hants, Hants County, Nova Scotia, the son of Thomas Stewart Rose (1841-1911) and Matilda I. Barbrick (1853-1925).[3] Three separate documents give three different years for his birth: the 1891 Canada Census list his age as 8, putting his birth circa 1883; his 1922 naturalization declaration states 27 August 1878, Maitland, N.S.;[4] his World War I draft card gives 27 August 1877 (no place stated);[5] and his death certificate gives 12 August 1880.[6] This spread of dates, all in the same general range, is treated here as an unresolved minor discrepancy rather than evidence against his identity or parentage, which are separately well supported (see Research notes).
Emigration
Albert emigrated from Nova Scotia to the United States in April 1896, arriving via the Canadian Pacific Railway at Vanceboro, Maine, and settling in Washington State.[4] He formally declared his intention to naturalize on 26 July 1922 in Whatcom County, Washington.[4]
Marriage and children
Albert married Angela Marie O'Neill (1887–1954), daughter of Michael James O'Neill and Anna Rodgers, on 26 February 1908 in Whatcom County, Washington.[7] Their children were:
- Helen Ross (1909-2000), m. Virgil Smith Walston, 25 Aug 1928, Vancouver, British Columbia[8]
- Dr. James Alan Ross Sr. (1911-2001), m. Dorothy Cecilia Cleary, 10 Feb 1934, Whatcom County, Washington[9]
- Donald Joseph Ross (1913-1970), m. Margaret Elizabeth Vail, 16 Jun 1939, Whatcom County, Washington[10]
- Edmund Michael Ross (1914-1915), died in infancy[11]
- Robert Francis Ross (1918-1944), m. Marjorie L. Knox, 18 Sep 1943, Seattle, King County, Washington; killed in action, Loire, France, 8 Feb 1944[12]
- Mary Jeanne Ross (1921-2006), m. James Richard Chevalier Jr., 3 Jan 1942, Whatcom County, Washington[13]
Death & burial
Albert died 14 May 1950 in Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, and was buried 16 May 1950 at Ferndale, Whatcom County.[6] His obituary, published in the Bellingham Herald on 16 May 1950, lists his surviving siblings as Walter and Wilbert Rose, and Mrs. George O'Neil and Mrs. Robert Barr — the basis for his documented connection to Thomas Stewart Rose and Matilda Barbrick, discussed fully below.[14]
Research notes
Disputed origins
Albert's own 1908 marriage record and 1950 death certificate both name his parents as John (Stewart) Ross and Martha Kearn.[7][6] No independent record of this couple has been found in any Nova Scotia or Washington source consulted to date.
Documentary evidence instead identifies Albert's parents as Thomas Stewart Rose (1841–1911) and Matilda I. Barbrick (1853–1925) of Urbania, East Hants, Nova Scotia:
- The only census-age Albert recorded in Nova Scotia in 1891 is in Thomas Stewart Rose and Matilda Barbrick's household, Maitland, East Hants.[15]
- Albert's 1922 naturalization declaration gives his birthplace as Maitland, N.S., matching this family's location.[4]
- Albert's 1950 obituary names his surviving siblings as Walter, Wilbert, Mrs. George O'Neil, and Mrs. Robert Barr — matching four documented children of Thomas Stewart Rose and Matilda Barbrick: Walter Rose (1891-1962), Wilbert Rose (1889-1954), Annie Rose (1897-1970) (m. George O'Neil, 1926, Halifax), and Bessie Rose (1894-1968) (m. Robert Garnet Barr, 1913, Bible Hill).[14]
The identifications of Annie and Bessie are independently confirmed by their own marriage records, not merely by census household placement:
- Annie's 1897 delayed birth registration names her father as Stewart Rose;[16] her 1926 marriage record (indexed "Annie Rall") names her parents as Stewart Rall and Matilda Barbreek — an evident phonetic rendering of "Barbrick."[17]
- Bessie's 1913 marriage record names her parents as Stewart and Matilda.[18]
This closes the evidentiary chain: obituary → named sisters → sisters' own marriage records → Thomas Stewart Rose and Matilda Barbrick. The John (Stewart) Ross/Martha Kearn parentage on Albert's own records remains unexplained — no corroborating record of that couple has been found — but is outweighed by the convergent census, naturalization, and obituary evidence above. FamilySearch previously carried two separate, unlinked person entries for this man (GSVB-B15, with the fuller U.S. record set, and PXJY-PZB, sourced only to the 1891 census); these have since been merged, with an alert note left on the profile explaining the reasoning above.
Sources
- ↑ Brashear 2011, pp. [26–31].
- ↑ "Haplogroup R1b (Y-DNA)". Eupedia. May 9, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
- ↑ "Canada, Census, 1891," entry for Albert Rose in the household of Steward Rose and Mitilda Rose, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW29-5T4).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Washington, U.S., County Naturalizations, 1878-1974 (Ancestry.com), Whatcom County Naturalization Declaration No. 1482, 26 July 1922.
- ↑ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (Ancestry.com), Snohomish County, Draft Board 2.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Washington, Death Certificates, 1907-1960," entry for Alber John Ross and John Stewart Ross, 14 May 1950, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3YT-BJ3).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008," entry for Albert Ross and Angela Marie O'Neill, 26 February 1908, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMK-TN9P).
- ↑ "Canada, British Columbia, Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938," entry for Virgil Smythe Walston and Silas Walston, 25 Aug 1928, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JD8J-3RS).
- ↑ "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008," entry for Alan Ross and Dorothy Cleary, 10 February 1934, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMV-H88F).
- ↑ "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008," entry for Donald Joseph Ross and Margaret Elizabeth Vail, 16 June 1939, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMV-HNW6).
- ↑ "Washington, Death Certificates, 1907-1960," entry for Edmund Michael Ross, 3 January 1915, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3LK-JQR).
- ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015," entry for Robert Ross, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK4W-6QVL).
- ↑ "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008," entry for James R Chevalier and Mary Jeanne Ross, 3 January 1942, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMD-Z3ZD).
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2013," entry for Mr Albert J Ross and Angela Marie, 16 May 1950, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q57Z-25RH).
- ↑ "Canada, Census, 1891," entry for Albert Rose, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW29-5T4).
- ↑ "Canada, Nova Scotia, Delayed Births, 1837-1907," entry for Annie Rose and Stewart Rose, 16 Mar 1897, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVRF-GPRL).
- ↑ "Canada, Nova Scotia, Marriages, 1907-1932," entry for George O'Neil and Patrick O'Neil [Annie Rall], 15 Feb 1926, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBK-SFY2).
- ↑ "Canada, Nova Scotia, Marriages, 1864-1918," entry for Robert Garnet Barr and Robert [Bessie Rose], 17 Dec 1913, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WH4Z-KCW2).
- Brashear, Charles Ross (2011). Descendants of Francis Ross. Santa Rosa, CA: Kokopelli Books. ISBN 9780933362314. OCLC 869832751.
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