Family Camping in the Rosewood District 1880s
Photo: State Library of Queensland

Rosewood History

OUR PIONEER MEN & WOMEN

So much of what makes Rosewood a place people choose to call home, is the result of the hard work and initiative of those gone before, our Pioneer men and women, who were he first to explore and settle in this district.

What time period defines a pioneer? The Queensland Pioneer Index (births, deaths, marriages) covers the years 1829-1889. However, I feel that period of time could be extended somewhat.

This list is not complete and additional names will be added over time.

ADAMS, Percy Harry (1864-1930) = Georgina Caroline BRADFIELD (1864-1928) (Rosewood)

AITKEN, David Paterson (1871-1958) = Alice Kate HARDING (1873-1932) (Tallegalla)

AKES, Dennis Francis William (1863-1943) = Susan ROSS (1861-1901) Bertha Augusta ROHL (1891-1986) (Rosewood)

ANGEL, Philip (1857- >1932) = Louisa BEAVIS (1867-1947) (Rosewood)

ARMSTRONG, James (1864-1934) = Ellen HEWLETT (1861-1947) (Seven Mile)

ARMSTRONG, John (1810-1895) = Elizabeth CLARKE (c.1824 – 1859) Harriett MILLER (1836-1916) (Seven Mile/Ebenezer)

ARNDT, Carl Fredrich Christof (1843-1921) = Justine BETHKE (1835-1884) Wilhelmine Caroline BÜLOW (1859-1903) (Tallegalla, Lowood)

ARNDT Carl Freidrich Wilhelm (1835-1927) = Charlotte Friedricke Wilhlemine MÜLLER (1832-1920) (Tallegalla)

ASPINALL, John (1836-1906) = Johanna MCCARTHY (1830-1913) (Rosewood)

AUSTIN, William Honey (1830-1926) = Sarah BARTLETT (c.1829-1885) (Tallegalla)

BAILLS, William (1848-1916) = Ellen Ann RICE (1858-1922) (Mount Walker)

BAMBURY, James (1834-1877) = Eliza JONES (1840-1879) (Rosewood)

BASSETT, William (1845-1922) = Rebecca HOLMES (1846-1884); Alice DARKER (1863-1944) (Ashwell)

BEAVIS, Martin (1811-1886 ) = Mazellah PALFREY (1834-1920) (Rosewood)

BENNETT, William James (1847-1937) = Margaret FLYNN (1860-1884) Matilda Hannah YARROW née BATES (1853-1920) (Rosewood)

BENSLEY, Arthur (1864-1949) = Margaret ELDER (1868-1965) (Ashwell)

BENSLEY, Mark J. P. (1891-1958) = Elizabeth Londe CAULK (1836-1918) (Ashwell)

BLACKMORE, William (1845-1936) = Caroline Matilda SCANLAN (1849-1897) (Rosewood)

BLAKE, Richard (1832-1917) = Mary Charlotte TIPPETT (1837-1900) (Rosewood)

BOUGHEN, George (1856-1925) = Catherine “Kate” TANNER (1848-1928) (Rosewood)

BOUGHEN, John (1877-1950) = Francis FORDE (1882 – 1973) (Rosewood)

BOUGHEN, Robert (1831-1916) = Susan DOE (1834-1871) (Rosewood)

BOURKE, Michael (1857-1926) = Elizabeth MCMAHON (1856-1920)

BOWLES, John (1885-1975) = Muriel Ross BROWN (1889-1966)

BULCOCK, Thomas Ernest (1872 -1952) = Edith Mary BOURKE (1885-1931)

BUNNEY, Walter (1838 -1909) = Caroline BIGGS (1845-1925) (Lanefield)

BUTT, Cuthbert (1863-1943) = Mary Annie MARSHALL (1873-1912) (Rosewood)

COLLETT, Wallace Henry (1857-1944) = Harriett Caroline PERREM (1861-1929) (Rosewood)

COLLETT, William Edward (1851-1937) = Isabella CHARLTON (1859 – 1941) (Rosewood)

COLLINGWOOD, Alexander Bradshaw (1851-1932)= Eliza Mary POWER (1861-1948) (Calvert) Mr. A. B. COLLINGWOOD – 1926

COLLINGWOOD, Isaac Munton (1849-1917) = Bridget O’BRIEN (1853-1910) (Calvert)

COULSON, Thomas Edward (1857-1924) = Elizabeth GREET (1861-1925) (Lanefield)

COVENEY, Bartholomew (1846-1926) = Mary Ann HAYES (1853-1932) (Rosevale)

COWELL, Charles (1834 -1907) = Mary Ann CANHAM (c.1832-1909) (Tallegalla)

CRANE, Daniel (1856-1929)=Ellen CALLAGHAN (1857-1927) (Lanefield)

DALE, James (1832-1908) = Sarah Jane GILLESPIE (1843-1928) (Rosewood)

DALE, Patrick (1842-1890) = Catherine CLIFFORD (c.1852-1923) (Rosewood)

DART, John (1842-1898) = Amy Jane BRAIN (1845-1921) (Tallegalla)

DESBOIS, Dan (1836-1898) = Mary Ann PRITCHETT (1844-1880) (Rosewood)

DÖLLING, Wilhelm (1874-1942) = Mary Georgina NICHOLL (1871-1943) (Rosewood)

DOVE, John Grieve (1861-1944) (Rosewood)

DUTNEY, Charles (1834- 1906) = Emily Ann GILLETT (1838-1905) (Ashwell)

DUTNEY, Frederick John (1878-1913) = Edith FREEMAN (1880-1953)I

DWYER, Charles (1839-1923) = Mary GORMLY (c.1839-1923) (Rosevale)

EATON, Samuel (1824-<1903) = Ellen BULLINS (1841-1883) Anne Mary O’LOUGHLIN (c.1857-1908) (Ashwell)

EITEL, Johann Christoph August (1838-1912) = Christianne Magdalene KORNTNER (1834-1912)

ELDER, David (1841-1921) = Barbara ROSS (1842-1926) (Rosewood)

EMBREY, Alfred (1878-1965) = Sarah EMBREY (1882-1906) Margaret Maria FREEMAN (1891-1958)

EMBREY, Henry Richard (1890-1970) = Susan Kathleen BOUGHEN (1894-1968)

EMBREY, Richard (1823-1896) = Rebecca COOMBES (1823-1913) (Tallegalla)

EMBREY, Richard jnr (1855-1949) = Fanny OWEN (1859-1923) (Tallegalla)

EMMOTT, Frederick Christopher J.P. (1864-1932) = Alice Maude WARRY (1868-1952) (Rosewood)

ERBACHER, Carl (1845-1927) = Frances RATZ (1850-1932) (Ebenezer)

EVANS, John William (1882-1969) = Lila Dorothy HARDING (1884-1967)

EVANS, Joseph William (1839-1916) = Mary VANCE (1857-1954) (Tallegalla)

EVERS, James Edward Amos (1887-1925) = Elizabeth HENDERSON (1879-1955) (Rosewood)

FARLEY, John William (1832-1909) = Betsey ASHDOWN (1833-1888)

FARRELL, John (1836-1918) = Margaret MCKEW (c.1843-1925) (Rosewood) John Farrell was the first resident at Rosewood Gate, arriving in 1864. First Gatekeeper

FARRELL, Michael (1865-1940) = Mary Ellen SLOANE (1865-1948) (Rosewood)

FARRELL, Patrick (1848-1915) = Mary BROWN (1864-1955) (Rosewood)

FOOTE, James (1829-1895) = Catherine KEITH (1823-1893)

FREEMAN, Charles (1840-1925) = Mary WATERS (1840-1927) (Tallegalla)

FREEMAN, James (1839-1921) = Mary Ann TAYLOR (1847-1937) (Tallegalla)

FREEMAN, John (1844-1933) = Eliza SYMONDS (1846-1932) (Tallegalla)

FREEMAN, John Phillip (1867-1936) = Elizabeth Ann SMITH (1875-1957) (Perry’s Knob)

FREEMAN, Moses (1874-1947) = Harriet Elizabeth FREEMAN (1874-1965) (Tallegalla)

FREEMAN, William (1853-1944) = Harriet SYMONDS (1849-1922) (Ashwell)

GEIGER, John Adam (1813-1898) = Mary Barbara KIRCHGESSNER (1821-1911) (Ebenezer)

GOOS, Michael (1837-1888) = Elizabeth SCHMIDT nee RAABE (1832-1923) (Tallegalla)

GOWER, Alfred (1856-1934) = Mary Ann COLVIN (1854-1935)

GRANT, Alexander (1810-1881) = Margaret STUART (1803-1881)

GRANT, Alexander Mark (1844-1916) = Ellen JACOBS (1850-1925)

GREEN, Thomas (1838-1907) = Winifred RYAN (1835-1899) (Ashwell)

GREET, Joshua (1839-1885) = Grace Elgar WHITFORD (1835-1909) (Ashwell)

GRIMSEY, William (1821-1894) = Bridget EGAN (1839-1901)

HAINES, Charles Richard (1870- 956) = Annie Sophia URRY (1871-1964)

HANNANT, Henry (1826-1910) = Jane GOLDING (1830-1902)

HARDING, Ernest Theodore (1878-1948) = Harriet LOVEDAY (1880-1983)

HARDING, George (1845-1934) = Phedora Willis Fanny SUMMERS (1845-1934)

HARDING, Harry William (1872-1956) = Martha Ellen BLACKMORE (1872-1960)

HARDING, Tom Harry (1871-1963) = Agnes WAIGHT (1872-1937)

HOGAN, Thomas (1829-1903) = Harriet Ann PHILLIPS (1812-1894) Claimed to be the oldest pioneer of the district bar John Farrell. (Rosewood)

HORE, Walter Alexander (1843-1923) = Frances Elizabeth JOSEPH (1846-1917) (Rosewood)

HUDSON, Joseph (1832-1920) = Dinah SANDERSON (c.1830-1894) Ann CROSBY née ROBINSON (1852-1931)

ISZLAUB, Conrad Friedrich (1834- 909) = Martha Jane ROBERTSON (1837-1896)

JACOBS, George (1835-1892) = Anne Maria PHIPPS (1835-1921)

JACOBS, Henry (1829-1914) = Charlotte BUTLER (1828-1905)

JACOBS, John Henry (1853-1936) = Caroline Elizabeth DUTNEY (1859-1933)

JOHNS, Francis William (1847-1908) = Hannah Laura JAMES (1833-1916)

JOHNSON, John Edward (1840-1903) = Annie Mary VANCE (1840-1923)

JONES, John Bathurst (1833-1920) = Bridget GLEESON (1841-1921)

KEATES, George (1862-1912) = Emily JAMES (1862-1930)

LANE, John (1842-1920 = Clara Lavina Matilda MEAD (c.1848-1875) Elizabeth STUART (1861-1945)

LANE, Charles (1842-1916) = Elizabeth Ann RODGERS (1854-1919)

LONEY, Absalom, (1841-1925) = Mary Anne MCMURRAY (1838-1918)

LOUND, Fredrick Sibley (1867- 919) = Marguerite Helen D’ARCY (1867-1943)

LOVEDAY, Walter (1836-1915) = Harriet BAKER (1837-1859) Bridget GLEESON (1843-1910) (Lanefield)

LUDLOW, Edmund John (1849-1940) = Sarah Jane MINOR (c.1853-1944) (Ashwell, Lowood)

MADDEN, John (1854-1929) = Catherine Mary CALLAGHAN (1853-1922)

MASON, Richard (1835-1908) = Emily HENSHAW (1839-1907) (Rosewood)

MATHEW, William (1806-1879) = Ann WISHART (c.1841-1921) Third Gatekeeper (Rosewood)

McGEARY, Henry (1843-1893) = Louisa Jane LANGDON (1841-1910) (Rosewood)

McGEARY, Henry George (1874-1939) = Harriett Mary GRANT (1873-1964) (Rosewood)

MERRITT, John (1859-1947) = Kate HEALY (1859-1916) (The Bluff, Ashwell)

MITCHELL, John (1852-1927) = Louisa Ann PULLEN (1861-1922)

MOORE, Frederick (c.1814-1883) = Sarah FITCH (1837-1874) Proprietor of the White Lion Inn (Seven Mile)

MOORE, John (1840-1901) = Charlotte HARLIN (1845-1915)

MORAN, James (1834-1896) = Mary O’BRIEN (c.1838-1916) (Rosewood)

OBERLE, Charles (1823-1910) = Kunegunde FENZER (1816-1891) (Tallegalla) See Obituary

OBERLE, Xavier Joseph (1858-1926) = Helene Julianne MULLER (1859-1921)

O’BRIEN, Michael (1821-1899) = Margaret Jane LYNCH (1828-1888)

O’DONNELL, Daniel (1850-1915) = Mary CONCANNON (1859-1922)

O’DONNELL, Patrick (1834-1910) = Mary BROSNAN (c.1837-1922)

O’SHEA, James (1865-1947) = Bridget Agnes SLACK (1865-1943)

PEDRAZZINI, Domenico Giuseppe Antonio (1837-1920) = Mary GRIMLEY (c. 1840-1884); Winifred HOGAN (1845-1927)

PENDER, John (1867-1927) = Emily Jane JONES (1870-1950)

PERREM, William (1836-1922) = Elizabeth WINDSOR (1830-1908) (Lanefield)

PERRIN, Alfred (1859-1919) = Mary Ann WYATT (1860-1933)

PFRUNDER, David (1840-1916) = Elizabeth Wilhelmine STEINBERGER (1847-1909)

PICKLES, James (1834-1910) = Frances LIVESY (c.1841-1907)

PONTING, James (1841-1925) = Selina HILL (1847-1904)

PREBBLE, Henry (1838-1909) = Louisa Emily NIXON (1841-1931)

QUINN, William Joseph (1842-1910) = Ellen DENAHY (c.1839-1926)

RAFTER, Edmond (1841-1931) = Laura Lucas MOODY (1856-1938) (Grandchester) Mr. E. RAFTER – 1926

RATZ, Michael (1813-1883) = Anna Maria REUGER (1816-1889)

RIDSDALE, Charles (1868-1916) = Alice Emma MASON (1869-1930) (Rosewood)

RODGERS, Alexander (1861-1941) = Elizabeth LONEY (1868-1958)

ROWLINGSON, Ambrose (1846 – 1933 ) = Frances BROWN (1846 -1925) (Lanefield)

RUHNO, Frederick William (1867-1938) = Euphemia Margaret GRAY (1871-1944)

RUSH, Michael (c.1829-1910) = Bridget O’MEGHER (c.1838 -1908)

RYAN, James (1839-1920) = Elizabeth MADDEN (1846-1910) (Rosewood, Gatton)

SCANLAN, William (1827-1893) = Margaret Jane MAHON (c.1824-1902)

SCHMIDT, August Friedrich (1851-1931) = Juliane Luise Auguste SCHULTZ (1852-1915) (Coleyville) Mr. A. F. SCHMIDT – 1926

SCHURECK, Charles Nathaniel (1859-1936) = Fanny LEVI (1857-1931) (Rosewood)

SELLARS, Robert (1869-1950) = Caroline URRY (1874-1897) Alice Elizabeth COTTON (1877-1961) (Rosewood)

SLOANE, Bernard “Barney” (1823-1888) = Mary Ann GALLAGHER (c.1822-1857) Margaret DWYER (1823-1907) (Rosewood)

SMALLBONE, Lawrence (1837-1920) = Emma HURFORD (c.1834-1913)

SMITH Charles (1822-1880) = Elizabeth WALKER (1831-1896)

SMITH, Charles Alfred (1876-1960) = Mary Ann BOUGEN (1879-1964)

SPANN, August Ferdinand (1852-1924) = Friederike Wilhelmine Albertine STRENZEL; Bertha Caroline Emilie BÖHNKE

STUBBIN, Robert (1845-1876) = Louisa ALEXANDER (1846-1934)

THOMPSON, John (1864-1931) = Amy Alice SIDEY (1873-1941)

UPRICHARD John (1858-1931) = Mary Esther BRINDLEY (1863-1943)

URRY, Charles Sherrington (1817-1909) = Jemima COKER (1832-1911)

VANCE, John William J.P. (1824-1882) = Olivia Harriett JOHNSON (1831-1886) Second Gatekeeper

WAIGHT, Robert Samuel (1845-1936) = Anna RAPSON (c.1838-1907) Mr. Samuel WAITE – 1926

WASS, Limberd (1862-1946) = Caroline NEEDHAM (1864-1947). Pioneer Heads Family of 4 Generations – 1941

WATERS, William (c. 1824-1904) = Jane SMITH (c.1835-1916)

WEIGAND, Nicholas (1825-1909) = Catherine GUTHIER (1825-1898)

WHITNEY, George J.P. (1845-1924) = Mary Ann HOCKLEY (1850-1929)

WILLIAMS, Charles (1881-1961) = Louisa Wilhelmine Caroline SPANN (1879-1977) (Rosewood)

WYATTE, William Charles (1846-1912) = Kate PUTT (c.1849-1934)

YARROW, Charles jnr (1854-1885) = Matilda Hannah BATES (1853-1920)

YARROW, Thomas (1858-1917)= Elizabeth BATES (1858-1936)

YARROW, William (1860-1941) = Fanny BATES (1861-1920)

YATES, John (1838-1920) = Mary Ann PHELPS (1843-1911) (Mount Walker) Cr. John YATES of Mount Walker – 1912

ZARNKE, Friedrich (1828-1906 = Wilhelmine Louise SCEMEL (1831-1890)