Posted on: Ross Family Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Ross/598 Surname: Ross, Cameron, King, Sinclair ------------------------- Donald Ross (my great great grandfather) was born 1803 in Tain,Rosshire, Scotland. He immigrated to Wellington, New Zealand in 1840 via the Cape Colony. In 1846 he was a member of the survey team for the location and establishment of Dunedin in 1848 by the New Zealand Company. Family folk law has it that when my grandmother was engaged to be married in 1923 that the diamonds in her engagement ring had been sent by Ross family with connections to the Kimberley Diamond mines. My father remembers his mother having contact with cousins in South Africa as he was growing up. But who are they? It is not known for how long Donald Ross lived in South Africa or when he arrived there. It is possible that he married there as he was aged 45 years when he married Mary Cameron in Wellington, New Zealand in 1845. There is an IGI Record of a marriage of a Donald Ross to Christina Carolina Josina LANDWERTH on 10 Sep 1827 in Capetown, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Was this him? The names of his children could provide some clues to any family in Tain, Rosshire, Scotland or South Africa: Robert, Catherine, Elizabeth, Mary,Isabella, Angus, Sarah, Janet Dunn known as Jessie, John, William, and Barbara Allen. Dunn and Allen could be associated family names. Unfortunately the names of Donald's parents are not listed on his New Zealand death certificate. Any help would be appreciated.