the daughter of Major Thomas Ross and Isabella MacLeod
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See THE ROSS MANUSCRIPT
http://www.ed.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.100544!/fileManager/RossMS.pdf
The manuscript
Compiled around 1812, this is the earliest unpublished collection of Highland vocal and instrumental
music and unique in that it apparently represents the wide-ranging musical repertory known to Gaelicspeaking
inhabitants of one Hebridean island, Raasay, including the aristocratic Highland home of
James MacLeod, laird of Raasay.
The author
Elizabeth Jane Ross, later known as Lady D’Oyly, was born on September 17, 1789 to Thomas
Ross then a captain in the Royal Artillery based at Gowrie House, Perth and Isabella Rose MacLeod
the 8th child of John MacLeod of Raasay.1