ROSS. DAHLHOME, NICHOLAS [SSNE 527]

Surname

ROSS. DAHLHOME

First name

NICHOLAS

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Region

KINCARDINE PARISH, SUTHERLAND

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Nicholas Ross known as in ‘Dalhome’, son of Alexander Ross of Invercharron (in Kincardine parish, Sutherland). He was a captain in the Danish-Norwegian army in 1627. In 1633, Nicholas was in the regiment of Colonel John Monro of Obsdale [SSNE 178]. After Obsdale’s death in March 1633, the regiment was reduced at Heidelberg to two companies, one of which was led by Captain Nicholas Ross. The two companies were marched by Colonel Donald Mackay [SSNE 93] to Donauwörth where they were joined to Mackay’s regiment in July 1633.

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.132; 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), II, p. 178; R. Mackay, History of the House and Clan of Mackay (Edinburgh, 1829), p. 221; A. M. Ross, History of the Clan Ross with Genealogies of the Various Families (Dingwall, 1932), pp. 64-5; F. N. Reid, The Earls of Ross and Their Descendants (Edinburgh, 1894), p. 19; R. Gordon, A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 402.

Record updated by Dr Thomas Brochard

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1627-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1627-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY