If we have the correct birth certificate for Catherine Ross, which I believe we have, then this is her mother. We don't know much about her yet, but we do have her marriage record - one of the earliest records we have so far found. The reference to the "Gallick Congregation" and "Gallic Chapel", in her two children's Birth records, presumably reflects Isobel's Highland roots?

KEY EVENTS AND DATES

19th March 1784

John married Isobel McKay in Midlothian, Edinburgh. The actual record read:

John Ross Flax drefser, St. Giles Parish and Isobel McKay Old Kirk Parish Daughter of the deceased William McKay Late

Tennant in the County of Sutherland.

26th December 1784

Isobel's daughter Catherine was born in St. Cuthberts Parish, Edinburgh. The actual record reads:

Register of Baptisms 1874 - 75

Ross / Catherine

John Flaxdrefser at Sheens and Isobella McKay his

spouse had a daur Born Sabbath the twenty sixth

ult ………………………………………...Name

Witness the Gallick Congregation, Edinburgh

24th March 1786

Isobel's son Robert was also born in the St Cuthberts parish in Edinburgh. This record was witnessed in the "Gallic" Chapel in Edinburgh.