Please do check out our Facebook page (u may need to 'friend' me - I am Amina Hussain).
You probably also know my mum's other 3rd cousin Jeannie Poole? Her mother was Ethel Buckingham (whose brother was Alec Learmonth) - both visited my granny on Skye, but 60 years apart from one another! Alec during WW1, when he was on leave from the trenches in France; and Ethel in the late 1970s with her daughter Jeannie. They were 2 of 4 children of Mary Ross - John Ross junior's youngest child. Our families have remained in touch for over 100 years!
I recall Jeannie saying she knew your dad's youngest sister well.
Two more of my granny's Australian second cousins visited her in WW1 - Hugh Borden, and Lindsay Ross. We have (poor quality) photocopies of photos that Lindsay took whilst at their old home in Kendram, Kilmaluag ....they are very precious to me as they are the only images that exist of my great grandparents....funny that I only got them when I visited family in Oz in 1991!!! Ever since, I have been trying to make contact with Lindsay's descendants to see who holds the 'originals' and whether modern technology means they could scan me better quality images. Are you in touch with your second cousins Shirley Ailsa Ross or Bruce Lindsay Ross (the children of Lindsay) - are they even still alive?
Best wishes,
Amina
P.s. I heard the story of brother & sister marrying brother & sister frequently in that branch of the Rosd family: as well as your grandfather Donald marrying Emeratta Borden (whose brother Walter married Donald's older sister Margaret), Jeannie's mother Ethel married the brother of her sister in law (Alice Buckingham, who married Alec Learmonth). I am in close contact with the Learmonths...I just met Janet last month in London (she's Lyn Learmonths daughter...Lyn being one of Alec's 4 boys...all 3rd cousins of my mother .... But a 2nd cousin to you!)
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