ROSE, THOMAS (d. 1837), baker, publican and water conservator, of Newport, Shropshire, England, was convicted of housebreaking at Shrewsbury on 19 March 1793 and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to transportation for life and he arrived at Sydney in the Barwell in May 1798. About 1804 he set up in Sydney as a baker, which had been his former occupation. On 13 April 1806 he married Elizabeth (d.1826), whose father Thomas Bartlett had been a fellow-convict in the Barwell and whose mother Ann Bartlett had followed with her daughter in the Nile in 1801. They had two children and fostered four more. In the month of his marriage he received a publican's licence. He was conditionally pardoned on 4 June 1806, and on 1 December 1809 Lieutenant-Governor Paterson gave him an absolute pardon, which Governor Lachlan Macquarie later confirmed, and land at the corner of King ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography