Sarah (Munday) Ross (1835 - 1908)

Born 1835 in Sydenham, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of John Drummond Ross — married 29 Nov 1853 in Heidelberg Victoria Australia

Descendants

Died 21 Aug 1908 at about age 73 in Balcombe Road, Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Sarah (Munday) Ross was born in Oxfordshire, England.

Sarah (Munday) Ross migrated from England to Australia.

Sarah was born in 1835 in Oxfordshire England. Daughter of Robert Munday (Labourer) and Elizabeth Rymills.

She was Baptised on 7 June 1835 at Sydenham, Oxfordshire, England.^[1]

The England & Wales Census of 1841 shows her in Oxfordshire aged 6, with her brother Thomas aged 4 and her sister Frances aged 2.(Frances was known as "Fanny")

The family left Sydenham England, bound for Australia, arriving on 29-4-1844 aboard the ship United Kingdom in Sydney. Her family included her parents Robert, aged 26 and Elizabeth 27, and siblings Thomas 6 years, Robert aged 3, Benjamin 3 months, and Fanny aged 11.

Sarah married John Ross on 29th November 1853 at the Church of Scotland, Heidelberg, Victoria. ^[2]

They had eleven children together.

Elizabeth Ross Little (1854–1906)

Margaret Ross Griffiths (1856–1933)

James Robert Ross (1858–1933)

Emma Ross Egan-Lee (1860– )

John Thomas Ross (1863– )

Joseph Henry Ross (1865–1867)

Alfred Henry Ross (1867–1918)

William Samuel Ross (1869–1947)

Flora Fanny Ross Cameron (1872–1947)

Arthur George Ross (1873–1891)

Albert Ernest Ross (1876–1956)

Husband John passed away in 1886.

In 1905 widow Sarah Ross (Home Duties) and son Albert Ernest Ross (Labourer) lived in Balcombe Rd, Cheltenham, Victoria. ^[3]

Sarah passed away on 22nd August 1908, a widow aged 73, ^[4] and is buried at Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery, Methodist, Section E, Grave 142, with her husband who died in 1886, and some of her children. ^[5]

Probate granted on 20 October 1908. ^[6]

Sarah is the niece of Samuel Mundy mentioned in his death notice of 1903, along with her sister Fanny (Mrs George Woff).

Sources

1. ↑ Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915; Oxfordshire Family History Society; Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; Anglican Parish Registers; Reference Number: PAR266/1/R2/1
2. ↑ Victoria, Australia Marriage Reference Number 635/1853
3. ↑ Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980; Victoria, 1905, Balaclava, Mentone
4. ↑ Victoria, Australia Death Reference Number 9149/1908
5. ↑ Find A Grave
6. ↑ Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records, 1841-2009

• England and Wales Census Records 1841
• Immigration RecordsNR55316/4_4785/United Kingdom
• Trove Newspapers: The Age (Melbourne, Vic. 1854-1954.) Sat 22 Aug 1908.

ROSS - On 21st August at her late residence, Balcombe Road, Cheltenham. Sarah, the beloved wife of the late John Ross, and mother of Maggie, Emma, Florence, James, John, William, Alfred, Ernest and the late Mrs. Little, and only sister of Mrs. G.Woff, sen.

• FamilySearch Records
• bdmvic shows death of her brothers as Benjamin, aged 2 in 1846. Reg 4134.
• Thomas Mundy, brother, died 1901. Reg 15009.
• Robert Mundy, (junior) Sarah's brother, died 1914. Reg 3639.