'Rose01'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Rose of Broadley, Rose of Geddes, Rose of Kilravock

                               
According to a web site on the Rose family, information on the origins of this family was lost in the burning of Elgin cathedral in 1390. It is thought that the family moved from southern England to Geddes in Scotland in the 13th century, having derived from a family de Ros. The first proven ancestor is ...
Hugh Rose of Geddes, 1st of Kilravock (d 1306)
m. Mary de Bosco (dau of Sir Andrew de Bosco of Redcastle)
Mary's mother was Elizabeth Bisset, one of the co-heirs of Sir John Bisset of the Aird (of Lovat), from whom Hugh obtained Kilravock.
1. Sir William Rose of Geddes, 2nd of Kilravock (d c1333)
  m. Muriel Doune of Killayne and Pitfour (dau of Andrew de Doune)
  A. Hugh Rose, 3rd of Kilravock (a 1349)
  i. Hugh Rose, 4th of Kilravock (d c1388)
  m. (mcrt 02.01.1364) Janet Chisholm (dau of Sir Robert Chisholm of Chisholm)
a. Hugh Rose, 5th of Kilravock (d 1420)
  BLG1952 (Rose of Kilravock) does not show a wife for this laird. However, BLG1952 (Mackintosh of Mackintosh) shows a Mora Mackintosh, daughter of William Mackintosh, 7th that ilk, as having married a Hugh Rose of Kilravock. This Mora was just one generation before the Moira who married Hugh Rose, 7th of Kilravock (see below). It is quite possible that Mora was mother of ...
  (1) John Rose, 6th of Kilravock (d c1454)
  m. Isabel Cheyne ( dau of John Cheyne, 4th of Straloch)
  (A) Lachlan Rose (dvp)
  (B) Hugh Rose, 7th of Kilravock (d 1491)
  m. Moira Mackintosh (dau of Malcolm Mackintosh, 10th of Mackintosh)
(i) Hugh Rose, 8th of Kilravock (d 17.03.1517)
  m1. (1474) Isabel Sutherland (dau of William Sutherland of Berridale)
  m2. (26.06.1484) Margaret Gordon (d 1506, dau of Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Huntly)
  Not sure which wife was the mother of which of the children.
  (a) Hugh Rose, 9th of Kilravock (d before 1545)
m. (mcrt 03.02.1510) Agnes Urquhart (dau of Alexander Urqhart of Cromartie)
  ((1)) Hugh Rose, 10th of Kilravock, Sheriff of Inverness (d 10.06.1597)
  m. (mcrt 31.01.1523) Katherine Falconer (d 21.07.1591, dau of David Falconer, 4th of Halkerton)
  ((A)) William Rose, 11th of Kilravock (d 08.04.1611)
  m. (mcrt 05.01.1571) Lilias Hay (sister of William Hay of Delgatty)
  ((B)) Helen Rose probably of this generation
  m1. (before 1566) Robert Innes, 4th of Drainie
  m2. Thomas Rose of Holme
  ((C)) Janet Rose probably of this generation
  m. David Dunbar (d c1592, bailie of Pluscarden)
  ((D)) Elizabeth Rose probably of this generation
  m1. Walter Urquhart of Cromarty
m2. Robert Munro of Foulis (d 07.1589)
  m3. John Cumming of Ernside
  m4. William Gordon of Carnborrow then Rothiemay
  ((2)) Ian Mac-a-Baron Rose of Wester Drakies, Provost of Inverness had issue
  m. Margaret Vaus (dau of Vaus of Lochslin)
  ((3)) Janet Rose
  m. George Gordon, 1st of Beldorney
  ((4)) Catherine Rose
  m. (1529) John Fraser of Farraline
(b) John Rose of Ballivat
  m. (c1520) Marjorie Dunbar (dau of James Dunbar of Conzie and Kiloyack)
  (c) Alexander Rose, 1st of Larachmoir
  m. Janet Irvine (dau of Alexander Irvine of Craigtown)
  (ii) Alexander Rose ancestor of Roses of Holme Rose
  (iii) William Rose
  (C) William Rose
  (D) Alexander Rose of Dunnearne
  (i) Angus Rose of Broadley
  (a) Patrick Rose, 2nd of Broadley
  ((1)) ?? Rose
  ((A)) Patrick Rose, 4th of Broadley, Provost of Nairn
  (E) Margaret Rose probably of this generation
  m. Alexander Strachan of Thornton (d 1460)
  B. Andrew Ros of Killane & Pitfour

Main source(s): BLG1952 (Rose of Kilravock)
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