50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge - Day 18

Fragments of Family History – Thomas Rose – Appearance

Jennifer Jones from TRACKING DOWN THE FAMILY has initiated a 50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge. This is a big writing commitment, but I have decided to participate. I have decided my topic will be “Fragments of Family History”. I will write short posts of newspaper items or single stories connected to my family history. This may expand over the 50 days.

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Thomas Rose – Appearance

Those of us with convicts ancestors in Australia are lucky that there are descriptions of many of our convicts. What did my 3x Great grandfather, Thomas Rose, look like?

Height: 5 feet 4 inches (162.5cm)

Complexion: Fair, ruddy

Hair: Fair

Eyes: Grey¹

There is a painting of Thomas Rose on a horse somewhere in the extended family, however I don’t know where it is. The painting would be much like this one of Stephen Butts.

Stephen Butts on a white horse, Macquarie Street, Sydney 1850 By Joseph Fowles, Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales

1. Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom, 1810-1814, 1827-1867 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Original data: New South Wales Government. Butts of Certificates of Freedom. NRS 1165, 1166, 1167, 12208, 12210, reels 601, 602, 604, 982-1027. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.