SECTION 1
Mr and Mrs Ross
Lived in Polwarth, Edinburgh, late C19. Names not known.
They had 7 children, not in order here:
Joanne Ross
( eldest) – invalid
David Ross
Head of History at Boroughmuir School, Edinburgh, then went into full-time work for the Christian Brethren, especially on the Continent, driven by his only daughter, Maimie. David married Minnie McDonald, who lived in Ashley Terrace, Edinburgh; her father was a Church of Scotland minister in Aberfeldy, and she had a brother who went to South Afdrica, where Mairnie visited him.
Jean Ross
(unmarried)
Margaret Ross, married James Durie, who is remembered for leaving his family on Saturdays to play golf, and who died after falling and hitting his head. James had a sister, Nellie, who lived in Midlem, in the Eildon Hills in the Scottish Borders. The Durie home was initially in Harrison Terrace, Edinburgh, and then at 19 Lockbarton Gardens, Edinburgh. They had five children:
Jessie, who married Walter Pryde, (section 2 below) Andrew, who married Isobel Adams, (section 3 below) Ross, who married Kathleen, (section 4 below)
Helen, who married Robbie Harkness, (section 5 below) Joanna, who married Robert Saunderson, (section 6 below)
William Ross
Emigrated to Canada, daughter Dorothy, who had twins, and one son.
John Ross, youngest, but listed here because of the length of the next entry. He married (later in life) Bessie McGonigle, a sewing teacher, and they lived at 19 Campbell Avenue, Edinburgh. No children.
Alex Ross, married Annie Duncan. Large family home at 12 Hermitage Drive, Edinburgh. Children, not sure of correct order:
Alex (Lex), killed in WW2, had married Muriel, who remarried(? name) and they had one son, David, now a lawyer in Belfas.
Herbert, who married Freda, one son, David, and 2 girls.
Eric, married Marcia, children Nigel, now in East Linton, and Lindsay. Barbara, married Norman Home, surgeon in Edinburgh, four boys, Geoffrey, Neil and two others.
Ronald, married Elizabeth, several children + adopted. Lived near Elie.
Ian, vetinary surgeon, married Shona, children Ewen, Anne, Tricia.
Graham, director of McVittie Guest, played rugby for Scotland, married Margo Thomson, children Kenneth (lawyer), Gillian, Jenny.
Joan, married Leslie Beaumont, one boy ( opthalmologist) and one girl (Hillary).
SECTION 2
Jessie Durie
Started at Edinburgh University but left after six weeks to look after her invalid mother. She married Walter Pryde in 1934. They bought 35 House o’ Hill Avenue, Blackball, Edinburgh. Walter was a clothing retailer, who died in 1960. Two children, Joyce, who married Ian Balfour, and they have four children, and George, who married a widow, Jan Sharp. They had one child, Samantha, who married Christian Gee, and they have three children, Pippa, Jernima and Dougal.
SECTION 3
Andrew Durie
Was in the army in WW2, married Isobel Adams, Chartered Accountant in Corbridge, Northumberland. They had five daughters:
Diana, unmarried.
Ann, married Philip King-Lewis, both worked at EMMS Nazareth Hospital. Children, Alison and David, who has two children, Philippe and Jonathan.
Jane, married David Clogg, children, Stephen, who married Samantha, Robert, who married Emma and Joanne, who married King.
Philippa, married Eric Roy, children, Caroline, Richard and Elizabeth.
Jill, married Robert Jones, children, Stuart and Anwen.
Isobel Adams had several sisters, one became Mrs Oliver ( children, Geoffrey, Margaret and Helen), another became Mrs Binnie (children Shona and Alan), and also a brother, who farmed Battlebridge.
SECTION 4
Ross
Tank commander in WW2, wounded in North Africa and eventually repatriated. Married Kathleen, whom he met in London after repatriation. Lawyer in Edinburgh. Three children:
Alastair, married Kate, died in 2017, daughter Ruth and son Alex.
Roy, married Dot in Blairgowrie, children Jane, Ross, David and daughter in New Zealand
Gail, married, ? divorced, daughter Clara.
SECTION 5
Helen
Helen married Robbie Harkness and they were missionaries in the Congo. On returning to Edinburgh after WW2, they taught at Clifton Hall School, near Edinburgh. She lived to have her 90th birthday celebration in the Braid Hills Hotel, with most of the extended family present. They had two daughters, Rilla, who married John McMurray in America but who returned to Edinburgh, one son, Garth, and one daughter, Nicola.
Fay married David Binnie, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Papua New Guinea. Fay returned to Edinburgh. They have two children, Jonathan, a helicopter pilot, and Catriona, who married an Albanian in this country, one daughter, Elena. Catriona was divorced and has remarried.
Robbie Harkness had two sisters; Jean married George Murray, who farmed Amerside, Wooler, Northumberland, and had three children, Anthony, Alison and David, and Helen, who married Stephen Paps. Their son Alastair, Inspector of Prisons in England, emigrated to South Africa on retiring.
SECTION 6
Joanna
She had to delay her start to study medicine at Edinburgh University because she had to look after her invalid mother as Jessie had done, because Helen (above), next in the family, had gone to the Congo. She left university when she married Stanley Robert (Bob) Sanderson, whom she met at a Brethren conference. He owned and ran a flour mill near Guilden Morden in Cambridgeshiu=re. His father was Ebenezer, from four generations of farmers in South Cambridgeshire. When first married, Bob and Joannah lived in Letchworth, then bought Saville House, Guilden Morden. Bob had at least three brothers, Douglas Ebenezer, who farmed nearby and brought his crops to the mill, Herbert, who died comparatively young, Theo, and one sister, Dora, who married Alex McCormack and they had a son, John, living in Aberdeen.
Bob and Joannah’s children ar:
Paul Saunderson, a medical missionary in Ethiopia, who met and married a Norwegian, Anne-Marit there, and then they moved to Alsund, Norway. Children Robert and Emma.
Margaret Saunderson, missionary in Peru, now lives in Cambridge
Daphne Saunderson, married Nicholas Meadmore, lives in Geneva, children Joel, Benjamin and Flora
David Saunderson, married Fiona Phillips, now lives in Cambridge, children Jessie, Samual, Joanna and Caleb.
