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Rosewood History

1892 The first Rosewood Court house was built where William Mathew had his gatehouse (1 John Street). On 19th November the tender of J. C. Thomson, £93 11s., time two months, was accepted by the Works Department for a new court-room at Rosewood.

1905 E. J. Pender, Solicitor, opened a Rosewood branch of Pender and Pender, Ipswich (Edward Joseph & Michael Peter)

1907 23rd September – A new Rosewood Court-house and police station built by Charles Risdale (£791.15) was informally opened.

1910 3rd March – Messrs Hargreaves & Hargreaves Solicitors and Surveyors of Rosewood opened a branch of their business in an office at Mr W. J. Bennett’s new rooms. Mr Joseph Hargreaves could be seen every Thursday.

1912, 1913 Cardew and Simpson, Solicitors, Ipswich visited.

1915 – In July, the well known firm of Pender and Pender, who had a visiting office in Rosewood for many years, decided, owing to the expansion of their business, and in order to meet the convenience of their many clients there, to open a permanent office. The office was conducted under the supervision of Mr. E. J. Pender, by Mr. James Egan, as managing partner, who served articles with the firm, and after passing his final examination with credit, was admitted as a solicitor. Pending the erection of new offices for the firm in Rosewood, the business was carried on temporarily in Mr. Eichstadt’s premises. Egan devoted his full time to the new business, and visited Harrisville on each Friday at the rooms next to Mr. Murray, tailor.

1916 The firm of Pender and Pender split and E. J. Pender opened an office in Brisbane. Michael stayed in Ipswich. The Rosewood branch was run in conjunction with Edward’s Brisbane practice.

1920 There was enough legal business to warrant daily visits from a solictor from Edward Pender’s Brisbane firm.

1924 E. J. Pender died and his eldest son Thomas and eldest daughter Mary, who had passed the preliminary law exams, took the practice.

1927 onwards – Thomas Pender came to Rosewood every Saturday.

1932 Daily visits from Pender’s firm stopped. The firm was subject to competition from a former employee who set up his own firm.

Because of the improved roads and increasing ownership of motor cars some of the younger residents started doing business in Ipswich.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

1880 John Ludwig Frederich, Rosewood

1881 Thomas Moore, Moorlands, Rosewood

1882. Mark Bensley, John William Vance, Rosewood; John Moore, Moorlands; John Philip Jost, Franklyn Vale, Grandchester

1883 Mark Bensley, John WilliamVance, Rosewood

1884 Henry Charles Gibbs, Rosewood; Thomas Lorimer Smith, Marburg

1885 John Lane, John Yates, Rosewood; C. G. E. Weise, Marburg

1886 Mark Bensley, John L. Frederich, Charles Henry Gibbs, John Lane, John Yates, Rosewood

1887 Frederick Christopher Emmott, Rosewood

1888 John Stephenson (Magistrate Rosewood); Francis Augustus Müller, Marburg; F. W. Linning, Kircheim, Marburg; Anthony Godsell Brabazon, Franklyn Vale, Grandchester

1889 Jeremiah John Durack, Moorlands, Rosewood

1890 F. C. Emmott, Joseph Hudson, Walter Joseph Hornby, John Lane, John Yates, Rosewood

1891 John Finnie, Roseval; Henry Moreton Stevens, Ashwell; Jeremiah John Durack, Moorlands, Rosewood; J. Hudson, M. Bensley, W. J. Hornby, J. Yates, J. Lane, Rosewood

1892 John Edward Johnson, Rosewood; Carl Gustav Emil Weise, Marburg

1893 Richard Blake Shears, Rosewood; Geogre Bassingthwaighte, Rosevale

1895 Willam Frederick Ruhno (Magistrate, Rosewood)

1896 Edward Pender, Grandchester; Thomas F Wells, Ebenezer; Arthur Mort, Franklyn Vale, Grandchester

1898 Willam Edward Collett, Henry Moreton Stevens, Thomas E. Coulson, Rosewood

1899 Julius Wohlgemuth, Rosewood

1900 Hugh Ahearn, Rosevale; G. H. Dutney, Rosewood

1901 Percy H. Adams, Rosewood; Michael Kinnane, Rosevale; John Sellars, Mount Walker

1902 George Colvin, Ashwell; Robert Samuel Hodge M.L.A, Rosewood (Magistrate)

1903 John Muller, Rosewood; Xavier Oberle, Talegalla, Julius Wohlgemuth, Rosewood; Steven Hardgrave, Grandchester

1904 John Edward Johnson, Rosewood

1905 Matthew Carmody, Rosevale

1906 Alexander Grant, Seven-mile Creek near Rosewood, Mark Bensley, Walter Joseph Hornby, E. A. Maher, Rosewood; T. J. O’Donahue, Grandchester

1907 Michael Bourke, Rosewood; James O’Shea, Rosewood

1908 Henry Grovsvenor Simpson, Bracedale, Grandchetser

1909 Michael Bourke, Rosewood; Arthur Selwyn Ogg, manager Royal Bank of Queensland Limited, Rosewood

1910 J. F. Hall, Rosewood; A. J. Cotton, Hidden Vale, Grandchester

1911 Wilhelm Christof Bachmann, Marburg; Denis Kelleher, Marburg

1912 T. E. Bulcock, Rosewood

1913 G. H. Crowther, Ashwell; A. Ralston, Hidden Vale, Grandchester

1914 T. Armstrong, Ebenezer; W. White, Rosewood; Archlibald Frederick Crichton, manager, Queensland National Bank, Rosewood; Samuel George Gilmour, head teacher, State school, Marburg; F. W. Muller, Hatton Vale, Grandchester

1915 H. Dutney, Rosewood; J. B. Sloane, Rosewood; V. E. D. Edwards, postmaster, Rosewood; Robert Sellars, Rosewood

1916 J. P. James, manager, Queensland National Bank, Rosewood; W. J. Cannan, Mount Walker

1917 Robert Elliott, Rosewood; J. A. Wells, Ebenezer

1918 J. M. Christie, Rosewood

1919 Warwick L McKenna, Rosewood; Kieran Tierney, Rosevale

1921 William Ruhno, Rosewood

1922 Walter E. Thomas, Rosewood; John Evans, Rosewood; Harry William Harding, Rosewood; Arthur James Loveday, Rosewood; Franz O. Bielefeld, Marburg; John J. Coyne, Grandchester

1924 Rodje Carson Marcus Fischer, Rosevale; Leo McCarthy Ryan, acting manager, Queensland National Bank, Rosewood; William O’Shea, Rosewood; Sydney Norman Alcorn, Grandchester

1925 R. A. Atkinson, Rosewood

1926 G. Dale, Rosewood; A. J. Hayes, postmaster, Rosewood; E. D. Rigby. Queensland National Bank, Rosewood,

1930 Henry Ludwig Bachmann of Tallegalla; Benjamin Gilmore Wilson of Bremier View, Rosewood.

1931 In the quarterly list of appointments to the Commission of the Peace from this district: Messrs J. Berlin (Kunkala), A. E. Taylor (Q.N. Bank, Rosewood), and Miss J. Pender (Rosewood). Miss Pender the first woman in this district to be appointed to the ranks of Justices.

1932 Mr. D. C. O’Sullivan, of the Rural School, Marburg

Published 07/02/2024