Thomas Rose

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. http://www.easystreetretreat.com.au/australianroyalty where it is noted:
In August 1792, as the result of repeated requests by Governor Arthur Phillip for the dispatch of intelligent and experienced farmers, Thomas Rose and his family together with four other free settlers sailed in the ship 'Bellona' for New South Wales. Rose and his companions were the first free and independent settlers to reach Australia. They arrived in Sydney on 16 January 1793, when David Collins noted that Rose was 'the most respectable of these people, and apparently the best calculated for a bona-fide settler'.
The new arrivals chose land about seven miles (11 km) west of Sydney, which they called Liberty Plains, now the Strathfield-Homebush district, where Rose received first 80 (32 ha) and later 120 acres (49 ha). Why they settled there is uncertain, for the soil was poor, and without manure was quickly exhausted, but possibly Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose wanted to establish settlement between Sydney and Parramatta for the safety and convenience of the travelling public. Rose soon decided that they had 'made a hasty and bad choice of situation' and according to family records he soon afterwards moved to Prospect, where he was made an overseer in charge of the government farm and stock, and where his second daughter, Sarah, was born. He appears to have stayed at Prospect for some twelve years. He and his family then moved to more fertile lands along the Hawkesbury River where they purchased the 30-acre (12 ha) grant of William Mackay near the later-named Wilberforce, which Grose began to settle in 1794. There he spent the rest of his life and became a well-known and highly respected figure, surrounded by a growing army of descendants. A son and a daughter had been born in the colony.

Thomas married Jane Topp on 8 Aug 1779 in Sturminster, Dorset England. (Jane Topp was born on 3 Apr 1757 in Dorset, Somerset England, died on 26 Dec 1827 in Wilberforce, County of Cumberland, NSW Australia and was buried in St Johns, Wilberforce, NSW Australia.)