Alexander Ross

Alexander and his wife Johanna Maria van Rooyen were witnesses to Alex's twin brother James's son Alexander James Ross's baptism in 1851. Then in 1853 Alex and Johanna's daughter Aletta Isabella's baptism was witnessed by Alex's other brother Patrick Colquhoun Ross and his wife Harriet Spiller.

Alexander Ross according to death notices of wife and children he was living on the farm 'Brummerdam' in the Aberdeen/ Graaff-Reinet area in the eastern cape. First with his first wife who died on the farm according to her death notice. With his second wife who he married only after their second child was born in 1865, they married in 1866. It is possible that they also lived on the farm.
By 1874 Alexander was living on the farm Klynfontyn/Kleinfontein in the Orange Free State near Winburg. It seams he did not have his second wife with him. He had left Aberdeen, leaving his two young children with a Mrs.Du Toit in Graaff- Reinet and took his children of his first wife with him to the Orange Free State.
It does not look like he ever returned to the Cape, do not know if his second wife had died. When the youngest daughter Agnes got married in 1890, it looks like her father Alexander was died. For she got married in the house of her uncle, the youngest brother of her father.