Hay carting on a farm near Rosewood, Ipswich, 1947 – ‘Ken and Mum ready to unload hay into barn’.
Picture Ipswich

Rosewood History

Below are links to interesting and informative newspaper articles which report on agriculture in the Rosewood district. Many pioneers are mentioned.

AGRICULTURE

Agriculture in West Moreton – Walloon 1869 Cotton (Walloon)

Agriculture in West Moreton – Alfred to Grandchester 1871
Walter Power, Francis McKeon, John Hughes, James Madden, Matthew Toohey, Martin Carmody, Michael Kelly, J. Mullis, Patrick O’Keefe, John Cook, John Creedy, James Portley, Denis Dwyer, Denis Creedy, Robert Johnstone, James McAuliffe, Richard Andrew, Edward Pender

Agriculture in West Moreton – Glamorgan Vale via Walloon 1872
Tinsley, Peters, Smith, Henslein, Ballin, Roub, Stumer, Claus, Schuble, Ritschley, Kries, Voss, Springer, Lamprecht (Walloon)

Hancock, Nairn, Macalister, Pratt, Denning, Day, Baulch, Nolan Tully, Dwyer, Spann, Cavanagh, O’Brien, Maloney, Tasman, Brown, Wilkinson, Hawley, Jones, Cutter, McGimpsy, Kelly, Doab, Little, Schules, Stankey, Barratt (Glamorgan Vale)

Farming at Rosewood Scrub 1876
James Ponting, Charles Freeman, Wiegand, Eitel, Hocker, Smallbones, John Dart, Austin

Farming In West Moreton 1876
Farrelly, Hudson, Smith, Smallbones, Dutney, Bunney, Mitchell

Rural Notes Rosewood 1878
Black, Kirkpatrick, Johns, James Ryan, J. Madden, Henry McGeary, Vance, Mathews, Richard Mason, Sameul Eaton, Joseph Hudson, John Ocborne, M. Bensley, Butt, Burns, Charles Cowell, James Kington, Walter Loveday, Ludlow, P. O’Donnell, W. Perrem, John Mitchell, P. Lenehan, James Smith, George Colvin, Alfred Gower, Rev. D. Mossop, Chas. Cheyne, Coulson, Joshua Greet, Stubbin, D. Crane, John Lane, C. Dutney, Scanlan, Joseph Wyles, Rush, P. Dale, J. Moran, Samuel Waight

Rural Notes Mount Walker 1878
Jacobs, Whitney, Geiger, Ratz, Runge, D. M’Grath, Frances C. Kingston, Hockley, Albert and George Rice, Richard Hingston, P. Cannon, Joseph Sellars, D. M’Laughlin, William Burkett, D. O’Brien, Miller, Schmidt, Dowe, Fischer

Marburg and Kirchheim 1907
Prosperous Teutonic Settlements. Sugarcane, butter, and pigs.

An Example to Immigrants
How Germans Prosper in Queensland. 1912
The Rosewood District- Their Home

ROSEWOOD DISTRICT. (No 3) 1926
Agricultural Prospects
Development of Better Farming
Bright Future For Coal Mining

Round About Rosewood And Marburg 1900
Mr. J. Hanlon, Walter Bunney, Lanefield creamery, Mr. J. K. Burns, Sugar Mill, T. L. Smith

Mount Walker And Rosevale 1905
Mr. P. Ahearn, William and Edward Collins, Mr. W. Borchert, Hugh Ahearn, and Dan O’Brien.

Ashwell and Tallegalla 1908
Mr. August Schimming, Mr. J. P. Freeman, Mr. W. Greet, Mr. Merritt, Mr. H. Embrey, Mr. J. Ballin

Sugar In West Moreton (B. S. Pochee) 1871
Beyenga Serabga Pochee was an Indian Government prison photographer back in his country of birth. He had a photographic studio in Brisbane Street, Ipswich on the site of what would become F. A. Whitehead’s premises. His son Serabga Beyenga Pochee attended the Ipswich Boys’ Grammar School.

The Sugar Industry 1894
Rosewood, Minden, Marburg, Kirchheim