Hi Tabatha
Well our Crosses are very likely related, although perhaps not brothers. This branch of Crosses was from Easter Ross and moved to Aberdeen. What I have on Isabella Anne Cross is from the General Register Office for Scotland (I'm from Canada but live in Edinburgh). She married William Fraser, blacksmith, on 31 Dec 1840 in Aberdeen. Alexander and William Cross (who are both from my branch of Crosses) were witnesses to her marriage. I don't have any information as yet on any descendants.
As for the parents of Anne Rose, that was courtesy of Vickie Grant (you can see her post that I replied to here,
http://highlandfamilyhistorysociety.org/HFHSQueriesIndex1.htm).
I haven't come across a Thomas Cross and Rebecca MacLennan yet. My Alexander and William Cross were sons of William and Anne Cross. I had wondered if Roderick was their brother because like them, he named his first son William and his second daughter Anne (it was a Scottish custom to name the first son and second daughter after the father's parents and the second son and first daughter after the mother's - you'll notice that Anne's second son is Alexander and first daughter Isabella which seems to confirm the parents' names). My ancestor Alexander Cross was born 1797 in Dingwall, Ross-shire and moved to Canada. His brother William was born 1806 and died 3 Feb 1884 in Aberdeen, and married Christian or Christina Ross.
As for the Lanarkshire connection, I had initially wondered the same thing as you but I think there is no connection. I suspect that most of the Crosses in Ross-shire are descendants of a family that came from Lancashire in England in the early 1600s to work in an iron foundry on Loch Maree in the northwest of Scotland, the first in the UK.
Let me know if you have any other clues... I am also hitting a wall!
