Contributors | Groups | Visitors | Links Search using a single word like 'church'
 

Picture No 172. Courtesy of Tain & District Museum.
Year: 1900
Catalogue No. 2248.2

  Add to my album   

Patricia Ellison (Lady Ross)

Patricia Burnley Ellison of Louisville, Kentucky, a renowned American beauty, became the second wife of Sir Charles Ross of Balnagown in 1901. This picture was taken by a photographer called Klauber in Louisville in about 1900.

Sir Charles, born in 1872, married three times. His first marriage to Winifred Berens was dissolved in 1897. During his subsequent marriage to Patricia Ellison he was cited as co-respondent in numerous divorce proceedings before she divorced him in a blaze of publicity in 1930. His last marriage, in 1938, was to his American secretary, Dorothy Mercado, who inherited Balnagown after his death in 1942.

Picture added on 23 June 2004.

If you found this interesting, have a look at this group of pictures.
Sir Charles Ross

Please add your comments about this picture using the form below.
We're particularly interested in your memories of the things shown, the people who lived there and any folklore.
General comments about the site should be added at the bottom of the home page.

Comments

Your name

Your email address - this will be shown on the page and will allow the system to notify you of further comments added to this picture.

 
Part of Tain Through TimeSystem created by Plexus Media Ltd