ROSS, HUGH [SSNE 461]

Surname

ROSS

First name

HUGH, AUGE

Title/rank

LIEUTENANT

Nationality

SCOT

Region

PRIESTHILL, EAST RENFREWSHIRE, GLASGOW

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Hugh Ross of Eastern Fearn was the son of William Ross of Easter Fearn also known as of Priesthill (in Easter Ross). In May 1615, Hugh assisted his father in the sale of Priesthill and ‘Ulladale’ (modern Scotsburn). He received Easter Fearn from his father later that year. Hugh was an officer in Colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment of Danish-Norwegian service from 1627-1628. He was wounded in action at Oldenburg in September 1627, losing a leg to a cannon shot and had his reckoning by 4/10/1628. Hugh died prior to 14 December 1637.

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot, (Odense: 1988), p.125; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p. 187; R. Monro, His Expedition with a worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keyes (London, 1637), I, p.17; The Calendar of Fearn: Text and Additions, 1471-1667, ed. R. J. Adam (Edinburgh, 1991), pp. 196-7; F. N. Reid, The Earls of Ross and Their Descendants (Edinburgh, 1894), pp. 22, 25; R. Gordon, A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 402.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1627-01-01, as LIEUTENANT

Departed 1628-10-04, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY