Researching Ross on Wye, Herefordshire. (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Wednesday, October 03, 2012, 01:31 (4441 days ago) @ suecar53

You're welcome Sue. pleased to help.
I've just read thro that Ross Site, it's excellent !, it's very informative and has some great potential sources of information. You can easily post your query direct on the website which must be worth a try, altho I think you are far more likely to get replies if you contact the History Society mentioned within the site. I suspect Hereford will also have a FH Society that will be worth Googling and contacting I'm sure.
I'm glad the Ross Museum was helpfull, altho I agree wrt sometimes this just gives more questions altho a nice "problem" to have. It must be worth emailing them your "new" query ?. In fact its quite possible this will get a better reply, eventually, than if you had asked it in person, as it will probably be answered by "the" person in the know within their Society, rather than whoever happens to be manning the counter astwere.
The Ross Civic Society website gives contact details for the Ross Gazette newspaper, an open letter to them with your query may well gain good results, also to the Hereford Times perhaps ?
http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/local/rossonwye/

The Genuki site is often helpful for finding FHS links to contact, in this case it even gives more detail about the aforementioned "Story of Ross" book.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Ross/index.html
(Please be assured I do NOT have any personal or professional links with this book or it's authors).

The Genuki site's Gazetteer section is particularly detailed and gives an excellent detailed historical account albeit from a one hundred year-old viewpoint. It mentions the town was "made a free Borough by Henry III".
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Ross/Gaz1868.html

Only yesterday I learnt the nursery rhyme about "Doctor Foster going to Gloster" was allegedly based on Edward I born 1239, who fell into a deep puddle while visiting Gloster and angrily vowed to never return; Edward Longshanks was Henry III's son, so perhaps the story of father Henry III visiting Ross hence "naming" the Street is true ?

HTH, Jeff