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Relatives: Husband of Catherine Sutherland. Father of Philip Ross jnr. Stone Condition: Sound Material: Marble Height: 1.15 Breadth: 0.72 Depth: 0.31 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Applique Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

IN MEMORY OF
PHILIP ROSS
BELOVED HUSBAND OF
CATHERINE SUTHERLAND
DIED 29th AUGUST 1928 AGED 73 YEARS
THE ABOVE
CATHERINE SUTHERLAND
DIED 21st JANUARY 1940
AGED 84 YEARS
THEIR SON PHILIP ROSS
DIED 19th DECEMBER 1943
BELOVED HUSBAND OF
DAVINA YOUNG PLANK

Family History

This relatively modern monument shows yet another fashion in monumental sculpture. The strong influence of classical architecture during the Victorian era which had swept aside the plain no nonsense style of the early rural sculpture was now from the 1920’s to take yet another direction. This monument has been deliberately fashioned in the form of a rock, intended to give both the impression of solidity and steadfastness of both the memory and the feeling towards the deceased.

Philip Ross and his spouse Catherine Sutherland were married at Viewforth Manse in the parish of Newington, Edinburgh on 4th February, 1881. Philip was twenty-five years of age at the time and Catherine was twenty-four. They were married by the Church of Scotland minister of this parish the Rev. Thomas McLaughlin.
Philip, whose parents were Finlay Ross, a farm servant by occupation, and Catherine McKenzie, trained as a tailor and subsequently branched out into the retail side of that trade as a clothier.
His wife Catherine was employed as a domestic servant and was born in 1856 as the daughter of stone mason Robert Sutherland and his wife Christina.
When the couple arrived in Mearns is unknown, but is likely after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, as their son, also commemorated on this stone, was living in Edinburgh at that date. This son, also named Philip, trained under his father in the skills of tailoring, and was described as such when he married Davina Young Plank, a domestic servant from Cramond near Edinburgh, on 9th July, 1912. Davina’s parents were father Frank, a grocer to trade, and mother Charlotte Young.

What happened to young Philip and his wife Davina is unknown as although he is commemorated on this stone, no record of his death having taken place in Scotland has been traced.

Philip Ross Snr. did settle in Mearns and was residing at the house called “Dunrobin” in Kilmarnock Road, Newton Mearns, when he died of kidney failure aged seventy-three years in 1928. His wife survived him for another twelve years dying shortly after the outbreak of World War Two aged eighty-four years.