BUSINESSES

The defintion of “business” is the activity of buying and selling goods and services and work that you do to earn money.

Th definition of “initiative” is the ability to assess and initiate things independently.

The early settlers brought knowledge, skills and initiative with them to their new country. When faced with a blank slate, the responsibility for making a success or failure rested on their shoulders.

Traditionally the population formed two main groups, men and women of the land and town people. Both groups had a shared view of the necessity to overcome any obstacles which stood in the way of their livelihood, such as the money needed to pay for food, a place to live, clothing, etc.

Some saw a need in the community and believed they had the solution to meet that need. Many had hopes of achieving some personal wealth from their efforts. These people we refer to as business men and women. They took the lead in projects for their own betterment, as well as the betterment of the district as a whole. Not much has really changed today in that regard.

Early residents had to make arrangements for their own transport and make their own roads. Some drove their own bullock drays and there are many stories about wealthy farmers who began as bullock drivers. Farmers needed to be hands-on at all times in their dawn till dark, physically demanding and skilful work. Shopkeepers passed through very difficult times until their businesses were thoroughly established and they had gained the trust and custom of farmers and residents of the town. Many faced insolvency and some stood their ground over and over again until they became successful.

We owe a debt of gratitude to those determined, persevering and enterprising people.

The dates in the table below are years I found a person/place mentioned. If you can help me with information about this list please contact me. hello@rosewoodpasttimes.com


AGENT - Insurance	ARTIST
John Louis Frederich 1897-1903	Emil Julius Moller 1911, 1916
Robert Samuel Hodge 1897-1903
Henry Prebble 1897-1899	AUCTIONEER
Butt Bros. 1897, 1898	W. G. S. Blackmore 1908-1910
David Pfrunder 1897-1900	John Pender 1910-1915
Collett Bros 1897-1903	Percy H. Adams 1913
	Pender & Hall 1916
AGENT - Commission	William Ruhno 1913-1938
Percy H. Adams 1901-1909	Ruhno & Maher 1916
William Bergman 1903-1906	Bulcock & Whitworth 1913, 1916
Robert S. Hodge 1906-1907
W. J. Young 1906-1913	BAKER See Bakers
Wallace Henry Collett 1907-1914
William Ruhno 1908-1938	BANK
John Farrell jnr. 1908-1915	Queensland Government Savings Bank 1878
John Pender 1910 - 1915	Royal Bank of Queensland September 1887-1916
Pender & Hall 1916	Bank of Queensland 1917
William Wesley 1911	Queensland National Bank May 1914
John Maher 1911	National Bank of Australia  1923
Asher Wilfred Millard 1914	National Australia Bank 1982-2022
John Muller 1914
Ruhno & Maher 1916	BARBER
John Patrick Roache 1963, 1980	L. R. Harcla 1888
	Samuel Richard Gilpin 1903, 1915
BLACKSMITH	John Paul Wanka 1931, 1939
David Elder 1888-1939	Frederick William Franklin (& Hairdresser) 1950s
Percy H. Adams 1888 - March 1902
James Elder 1893, 1939	BILLIARDS (Not in Hotels)
John Lewis Roache 1901, 1941	Arthur Charles Johnson, 1901
Ernest Smith 1903	Albert Wells 1928
Henry Elliott 1905 (and Plumber)	Joseph Potts 1930, 1934 see 1934 tournament
Charles Ridsdale (Wheelwright) 1903, 1909	Alexander Thomas Potts 1930, 1937
Carl August Kruger 1909 Mt Forbes	Thomas Quirk 1932
George Noxon Smith 1909
Charles William Rossow 1912 Calvert	BOARDING HOUSE KEEPER
Alfred Chalk (Wheelwright) 1911, 1922	Elizabeth Ann Lane 1902 (Railway Boarding House)
Max Ernest Fing 1912	Bartholmew Coveney 1903-1908
Jack Devin 1912	James Simmonds 1908, 1909
Charles Powers Ward 1914	William Dolling 1910, 1946  (Argyle House)
William Mulvena 1915	Mrs Gillen 1912
John Patrick Roache 1926, 1939	Mrs F. J. Dutney 1912, 1916
William Henry Lacey 1939	Mrs Smith 1913, 1916
Carl August Kanofski 1959, 1969	Mrs A. Blake 1914
David Herbert Berrell 1944, 1968
	BUILDER
BOOTMAKER	Robert Samuel Hodge 1892-1903
John Aspinall 1888-1903	Charles Ridsdale 1906, 1916
M. Bourke 1894-1900	John Thompson 1908, 1916
Fraser Bros. 1902, 1939	R. J. Murphy 1912
Frederick Schilling 1903, 1907	J. G. Hobbs 1912
C. Rowbotham 1906	J. Hoffman 1913, 1916
H. Dowrick 1910	Lawson & Waldron 1913
Hans Hoffman 1913, 1916	Frederick Herman Muche 1922, 1928
Charles Joseph Haines 1925
Joshua Richard Haines 1925	BUTCHER See Butchers
Harold Holloways Wilson (Grandchester) 1932
Francis Jack Edgeworth 1939	CAFE
Eric Arthur Edgeworth 1940	Comino & Castrisos 1924, 1930 (White Rose Cafe)
	Nicholas & Afroditi Inglis 1927-1933 (Capitol Cafe)
CABINET MAKER	Norman Charles & Margaret Ellen Tapsall 1931, 1932 (Sunshine Cafe)
William Postill 1904, 1905	Rebie Grace Brainwood 1936, 1937 (Sunshine Cafe)
George H. Jobson 1907, 1909	Jack Andonara 1939 (John's Cafe)
F. W. Gower 1911	Arthur King 1939 (King’s Cafe)
John Thomas Merritt 1914, 1932	Myles James & Hilda May McCorley 1941 (King’s Cafe)
Harry Thurlborn Rutter 1914
	CARPENTER
CARRIAGE/WAGON BUILDER	T. Rodgers 1892, 1893
Venson Banks 1922 -Wagon (Grandchester)	E. Bond 1892
Thomas James O’Shea - Carriage 1941, 1969	Gustav Zornig 1903, 1939
Tom Kerle - Wagon (Calvert)	Charles Ridsdale 1904, 1916
Patrick Alexis Rafter - Carriage 1959, 1969	John Thompson 1904, 1922
John Frederick Smith - Wagon 1969	John Bowles jnr., 1909, 1939
Glenwyn Ronald Wass -Wagon 1969	William Davidson 1909, 1922
	William Bowles 1911
CARRIER	John Edward Pennell 1911, 1912
Thomas Farrell 1914, 1915	Robert James Murphy 1911
John Frederick Weber 1941 Mt Forbes (Cream Carrier)	Henry Bowles 1912, 1916
Robert Boughen 1941 Rosewood	August Boettcher 1912
John Carl Ballin 1941	Andrew James Embrey 1914
Edward John Schneider 1941 Mount Walker	Albert Ernest Kucks 1912, 1914
William Hartley Taylor 1959 Mutdapilly	William Davidson (Rosevale) 191
Eric Frederick George Crawford 1959, 1969	John Henry Hoffmann (Ebenezer) 1909, 1914
	John Jacob Hoffmann (Ebenezer) 1914
CARTER	John Wolfgang Hoffmann (Ebenezer) 1914
Thomas Farrell 1906	John George McCarthy 1914
Richard Webster Blackmore 1914	William Otto Jesse Messenger 1914
David Elder 1914	Thomas Miller 1914
Reginald Henning 1914	Jens Neilsen (Rosevale) 1912, 1917
William Frederick Palmer 1941	Alexander McIntyre Rea 1914, 1922
Colvin George Blair Dutney 1941	Anthony Auld Rea 1914, 1915
Arthur James Baills 1941	William Otto Jesse Messenger 1914, 1916
Vincent Albert Krause 1969	William Henderson Bland 1915
	Alfred John Woodford, 1915, 1916
CHEMIST	Andrew James Embrey 1915, 1939
Joseph William Evans 1888, 1917	Otto Alderman 1916 (Bridge Carpenter)
J. C. Tomlin 1908	Charles August Schmidt 1916, 1917
Frank Bevan Tomlin 1909, 1912	John Mahoney 1916, 1917 (Bridge Carpenter)
Hugh Joseph McGukin 1916, 1917, 1932	Niels Christian Nielsen (Walloon) 1917
Gerald Nolan 1922	Rudolph Hohnke 1917
Gertrude Ann Brooks P.O. Pharmacy 1928	William Frederick Berlin 1912, 1917
Joseph Anslem Wilson 1932, 1934	Archibald Collins 1921, 1922
Herbert James Griffiths 1941, 1943 (Rising Sun Hotel)	George Thompson 1921
Norman Frederick Coote 1941 John Street	Douglas Alfred Banks (Grandchester) 1922
George James Hourston 1943 (Rising Sun Hotel)	James William Lawrance (Rosevale) 1926, 1934
Martin George Fleming 1969 (Pharmaceutical Chemist)	George Clark 1928, 1934
	Albert Dickfos 1928
CONTRACTOR	Arthur Edward White 1928, 1934
John Farrell 1888 - Road
	DRAPERS
COOK	Henry Prebble 1886
Violet Cameron Thomson (Grandchester) 1922	Frederick Christopher Emmott 1887
John Holeren (Lanefield) 1929	J. L. Frederich 1888
Lilly May Williams (Thagoona) 1931, 1932	T. B. Tronson 1900
	Alfred Ernest Stevens 1909
CORDIAL FACTORY	Ernest Jones Heap 1911
H. F. Eggert 1913	Leonard Wiggen Sorrell 1911, 1915
George Livermore 1914	John Joshua Stopford 1911, 1912
Walter Edwin Thomas 1921-1939	John Bruce 1914, 1915
Walter Edwin Thomas jnr	Edward John Hogan 1915, 1939
	Harry McLean Sheppard 1916
DEALER	Herbert Hill Thompson 1917
Michael Bourke (Cattle) 1907, 1921	Joseph James Overell (Rising Sun) 1921, 1922
Reginald Victor Hanlon 1912	James Lawrence Butler (Grandchester) 1928, 1932
Bartholomew Coveney 1914, 1915	John Leonard 1968
John O’Donohue (Grandchester) 1914
Francis Arthur Kingston 1926, 1932	ELECTRICIAN
Charles Michael Must 1924, 1927	Alexander Lawrie 1932, 1934
	Horace Larsen 1931, 1939
DRESSMAKER/MILLINER	Ronald Norman Boughen 1959, 1969
Mrs Sloane 1892	Brian David Campbell 1959
Mrs W. H. Wright 1893	William George Dalgliesh 1959
Mrs J. Collett 1897, 1903	Raymond Noel Dickfos 1959
Miss G. Prebble 1897	Rodney Lane 1969
Miss Ada Prebble 1898, 1899	Graeme Robert Park (Apprentice) 1969
Miss Annie O’Brien 1901, 1903
Miss Anna Hohnke 1903, 1906	FISH/OYSTER SALOON
Miss Maria Bridget Madden 1903	Alex Fites 1912-1916
Misses Ryan and Nilans 1905
Miss E. McCarroll 1906	FRUITERER
Mrs G. H. Hobson 1907, 1910	Mary Farrell 1904, 1907
Mrs J. S. Waters 1907, 1913	Isabella Collett 1905, 1907
Miss M. Elliott 1908	John Oliver 1905, 1907
Miss Mary Ann Farrell 1908, 1939	John Farrell 1905
Miss Marion Bourke 1908, 1915 (Milliner)	Robert Sellars 1906, 1916
Anna Johnson 1909	Bartholomew Coveney 1906
Mary Lobegeiger 1909 Coleyville	William J. Bennett 1907, 1912
Florence Elizabeth Kerry Waters 1911	Alex Fites 1912, 1916
Miss Anastasia Ita Kington 1911, 1913	Mrs A. M. Hohnke 1913
Alice Bassett jnr 1912	Charles Hohnke 1914, 1915
Edith Maud Rodgers 1912	Mrs Margaret Helen McLaren 1916
Katie Reddy 1912 Rosevale	Peter Mottee 1929
Violet May Grant 1914, 1922 (Milliner)	Norman Charles Tapsall 1931, 1932
Gertrude Vera Robinson 1915	Edward John Hogan 1941
Lilian Parson 1915, 1917	William Henry Collett 1941
Annie Noonan 1925 Photo	Henry Charles Stubbs 1941, 1969
Laura Clara Jane Trede 1926, 1939	Brian and Percy Bruce 1950s (Fruit truck)
Hilda Olive Zornig 1926, 1939
Violet Mary Smith 1926	GROCERS
Annie Veronica Noonan 1928	H. Prebble & Co 1888, 1893
Beatrice Mabel Sellin 1928	D. Pfrunder 1888, 1891
Beatrice Louisa Connolly "Connie" 1954, 1958	J. L. Frederich 1892, 1907
Kathleen Mary Bourke 1958, 1977	Carl Friedrich Cristoph Arndt 1891
Esme Joan Wyatte "Ezzie" 1970, 1980	Butt Bros. 1894, 1903
	Robert Hodge 1898, 1903
FUEL MERCHANT	Johann Paul Hahm 1903, 1917
Charles Henry Sleaford 1917, 1929	Robert Sellars 1903, 1906, 1939
Matthew Fraser 1926	William Dolling 1906, 1941
	Michael Joseph O’Reilly 1916, 1928
GARAGE	Percy Norman Capern 1921, 1941
Harry Gough - Motor Mechanic 1928	Norman William Ruhno 1921, 1941
Albert Wiseman Bowles - Garage Proprietor 1931	Sidney Edwards 1926, 1941
George Harding Evans - Motor Mechanic 1939, 1954	John Sillman 1926, 1928
Leonard John Evans - Engineer 1934, 1939 Garage Proprietor 1954, 1968	Maurice Francis Farrell 1928, 1939
Norman Edward Evans - Motor Mechanic 1954, 1968	James Harding 1928, 1941
Gordon James Elliott - Motor Mechanic 1963, 1977	Cecil James Acheson 1931 (Rosevale)
Elwyn David Lacey - Motor Mechanic 1968, 1977	Leslie Frank Riethmuller 1939
James Joseph Roache - Garage Proprietor 1940	Arthur Stanley Sellars 1926, 1941
Benjamin George & Eric Wilson - Garage Proprietors 1946	John Thomas Wyatt 1928, 1941
Ronald Harry Poole & Royston Eric Edds -Garage Proprietors 1946	Kevin Alexander Cross 1959
Lionel Merritt George - Motor Mechanic/Proprietor 1949	Alwyn Evelyn Maxwell 1959
Austin Lewis Roberts - Garage Proprietor 1958
Leslie Arthur Humphrey - Motor Mechanic 1954, 1968	HOUSEMAID
Gordon Robert Park - Motor Mechanic /Proprietor (Caltex) 1958, 1963	Ellen Gertrude Hickey 1916
Edward Colin Manttan - Tyre Traveller 1972, 1977	Caroline Dutney 1917
Kenneth Wayne Manttan - Garage Attendant 1972 Garage Proprietor (BP) 1977	Elizabeth Ryan 1921
	Mary Meier 1922
HAIRDRESSER	Ethel May Yates 1922
T. Thomas, 1895, 1896	Martha Alice Dutney 1922
Samuel Richard Gilpin 1905, 1916	Gladys Hobbs 1928
Richard Molle 1917	Annie Violet Wanka 1928
Edward Septimus Cornford 1921
George Ernest Morgan 1921	MAIL
Abraham Green 1922	Thomas Edward Cannon 1914 (Grandchetser) (Mailman)
Charles Otto Behncken 1926	Aaron Noble 1914 (Walloon) (Mailman)
Albert Wells 1928, 1929	George Keane 1915 (Mail Contractor)
John Paul Wanka 1931, 1939	Albert Otto William Charles Schmidt 1941 (Mail Contractor)
John Patrick Potts 1930, 1939	John August Gehrke 1959, 1969 (Mail Carrier)
Alexander Thomas Potts 1932, 1939	Cecil William Gehrke 1959, 1969 (Mail Contractor)
	Hugh James Keane 1959 (Mail Contractor)
HOTEL See hotels	Vince Albert Krause 1968 (Mail Contractor)
	Raymond Graham Schoenfisch 1969 Coleyville (Mail Contractor)
HOUSEKEEPER
Jane Louisa Cash 1915 Wycombe Lodge, Lanefield	MOTOR DRIVER
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick 1917	Bernard Sydney Tighe 1928, 1929
Harriet Jane Roberts 1921, 1932	Jack Egan Franklyn - Vale 1917
Catherine McGukin 1922
Mary Delagust 1926, 1928	MUSIC TEACHER
Irene Robinson 1928 Cardross, Grandchester	Mrs Leahy 1898, 1899
Jessie Isabel Yule 1931, 1932	Francis Makin 1900, 1916
	Elsie Ruhno 1914
JOURNALIST	Flora May Frances Bradley 1941
Robert Hennelly Neale 1910 (Printer)	Cecelia McLaughlin 1941 (St Brigid’s Convent)
Arthur Bainbridge Yates 1911	Elise May Hogan 1959
Robert James Carson 1912 (Journalist & Printer)	Joan Rose Else 1969
Frederick Bennett 1915
Robert Salton Manthorpe 1915	PAINTER
Henry Selwood Capern 1921, 1932	Benno Muller 1911
Jeanie Pender 1916, 1939	Alexander Tait 1911, 1912
Gordon Chalk	Ernest Knight 1914, 1916
	Hurtle Austin Patterson 1915
NEWSAGENT & STATIONER	David John McKenzie 1916, 1917
W. E. Collett 1908 (& Fancy Goods)	Frederick Bristow 1916
Mrs Margaret Helen McLaren 1911-1922	Robert William Hodder 1916, 1917
W. J. Bennett 1912, 1913 (& Fancy Goods)	Michael August Mack 1917, 1941
Francis Makin 1916	Roy Henry Kerle 1941, 1969
Mervyn Paget Crofton 1931, 1932	Christopher Frank Whitehead 1943
William Baker 1932	James Henry Mathewson 1969
Elsie Wall 1939, 1941	Paul Angus Brown 1969
William Wallace & Gwendoline Gladys Edwards 1959, 1969
Doris Ivy Edwards 1959	PHOTOGRAPHER
Harold Benjamin Courtice 1969	W. H. Gillett
	George Forbes 1902
NEWSPAPER	Albert Mogensen -Almos
Rosewood Register & Marburg Mail
	SADDLER See Saddlers
PIG BUYER
John Webb	STOREKEEPER
	John William Vance 1875
PLUMBER	Philip Angel 1888, 1892
Demas Francis William 1891- 1936	Carl Friedrich Cristoph Arndt 1891
G. McCall 18981-1893	David Pfründer 1888, 1891
Henry Elliott 1903	Butt Bros 1894, 1903
C. Ridsdale 1908 -	Johann Louis Frederich 1898, 1907
Richard Alfred Timms 1912	Henry Prebble & Co 1898, 1903
Richard Begbie Wilkie 1914	T. B. Tronson 1900, 1907
A. H. Sullivan 1916	Young & Dutney 1904
Charles Akes 1916, 1939	Robert Sellars 1906, 1916
John Fyfe Rea 1932, 1934	William John Young 1908, 1913
R. H. White 1936	William Ruhno 1908, 1938
Errol Richard Holm 1963, 1977	Michael Joseph O’Reilly 1908, 1914
	F. S. Lound 1908
SHOP ASSISTANT	Bulcock Bros. 1908, 1921
Laura Rose Elder Brown 1917	Daniel Statham 1909 (Rosevale)
Dorothy Annie Bade 1921, 1922	William James Bennett 1911
Annie Ellen Klupfel 1928	Ruhno & Maher 1912
Stanley Squire Yarrow 1931, 1941	Young & Dutney 1912
Joseph Potts 1931, 1941	James Sealey Walton 1912, 1929 (Rosevale)
Mathilda Louisa Zahnow 1931 (Rosevale)	Francis Nairne 1912 (Grandchetser)
Edna May Henning 1931, 1941 (Grandchester)	Mervyn John Powell 1912
Violet May Grant 1932, 1941	Alexander Fites 1912, 1917
Alexander Edward Baills 1939, 1941	Benjamin Thomas Walton 1912 (Rosevale)
Francis Baills 1939, 1941	Johann L. P. Hahm 1914
Alfred Richard Blake 1939, 1959	Thomas Lemnos 1915
Irene Mabel Johnson 1939	Reginald Henning 1922, 1941 (Grandchester)
Robert Edward Sellars 1939, 1941	William Dolling 1925-1937
Robert Matthew Yarrow 1939	John Graham Acheson 1932, 1941 (Rosevale)
Norma Isabel Crawford 1959	Capern & Baills 1930s
Edward Arthur Sellars 1959	Maxwell & Baills 1940s
John Thomas Wyatt 1959, 1969	Edgar Lloyd Primus 1941 (Rosevale)
Neville George Robert Yarrow 1959	Arthur Sullivan 1949 (Warrill View)
Beatrice Kendrick 1959, 1969	Walter Carl Desjardins 1959
Cyril Joseph Kreis 1959	Arthur Stanley Sellars 1959, 1969
Gwendoline Ruth Yates 1969	Robert Edward Sellars 1959, 1969
Heather Margaret Barram 1969	Edward Arthur Sellars 1969
Lynette Hazel Elliott 1969	Kevin Francis Luck 1969
Helen Kleve 1969	John Quinlivan 1969
Lynette Lesley Koch 1969	Matilda May Quinlivan 1969
Sheila Lenihan 1969	Alfred Allinson Richardson 1969
Alison Gayle Schimke 1969 (Grandchetser)	Eileen Florence Violet Richardson 196
Desmond Earl Steiler 1969	Jean Anne Williams 1969 (Franklyn Vale Rd., Grandchester)
Vincent Micahel Stokes 1969
Yvonne Alice Wass 1969	TOBACCONIST
Lorraine Fay Manz 1969	Samuel Richard Gilpin 1905
Mary Francis O’Shea 1969	W. J. Bennett
	C. Hohnke
TAILOR
T. Thomas	TINSMITH
H. Wood	Demas Francis William Akes 1891
Sydney Murray
Thomas Morgan Tierney 1906	TYPIST
R. C. Muller	Ellen Leone Hammond 1912, 1917
C. McNaught	Ellen Josephine Hogan 1921, 1934
J. M. Bruce	Daisy Henrietta Allen 1917, 1922
Frederick August Henry Dargatz 1912
Frederick William Mengel 1914, 1926	UNDERTAKER
Ellen Miller	D. Boetcher
Ernest John Tribbick 1914, 1926
Edward Franklyn Herse 1959	WATCH MAKER
	Herman Schipper