This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ross Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TeC.2ACE/1399.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Marion, I do have news – you decide if good or bad. Examine carefully the attached 1891 and 1901 census registers concerning a Ross family in Inverness. If this is your 15 year old Alexander in 1901 – he was born in England. This could explain you inability to find his birth in Scotland -as he wasn’t. Further he may not be the child of the same family seen in 1891 without him, but with the other kids. Therefore it is possible that the Alexander seen in 1901 may be the child of relatives, or adopted. I also attach the Attestation register of a Scottish Alexander Ross who signed up for WWI in Alberta in 1915. I really have no idea if he is yours or not, - but the thought of a Scots “cowpuncher” was amusing to me. Regards, Larry