Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Lammond Bruce was born on 23 September 1836 in Edinburghshire, Scotland – the daughter of John Bruce, a baker, and Jean Thomson.
She married Rev Donald Ross on 25 July 1868 in Dundee, Forfarshire and shortly after their marriage they emigrated to Otago on the William Davie.
After landing in Dunedin they 'went up to Oamaru, where they remained until the Rev. Ross’s appointment to Queenstown in 1871'.
They had four sons and lived in Queenstown for 23 years where Jane signed the suffrage petition. Jane was 'a tower of strength to her husband in his duties in this important charge. Her warm sympathetic nature and amiable disposition also endeared her to the congregation and the circle in which she moved'.
When the family left Queenstown they went to Southland then to Canterbury where Donald did relieving work.
Donald died in Sydney in 1911 and Jane died on 5 November 1923 in Auckland, she is buried in the Hillsborough Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Auckland Council https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/cemeteries