It appears that my Rose ancestry traces back to Theodore Rose of England based on information I have found on Ancestry.com. Beware that I have not verified all this information. In examining the data, I found some obvious errors which in some cases I could correct. Other errors will take more research. For example for one family in the mid-1700s there were two unnamed children with birth dates back in the 1600s prior to the birth dates of the parents. There either were linked to the wrong parents or the birth dates indicated were in error. It's these types of errors by careless researchers that makes information found on the internet suspect. In this particular case, it was a family for which I already had information which did not include two unnamed children so I suspect that they were linked to the wrong parents. In another family, the data had a brother and sister marrying. This is highly suspect and perhaps could be another case where one of the individuals has been linked to the wrong set of parents.
My Rose ancestry can be traced to John Rose of Virginia through his son Hosea Rose. It has been said that Hosea married the widow Sarah Bradford Taylor. This now appears to be untrue and that Sarah Bradford Taylor married a Bennent Rose rather than Hosea Rose. The identity of Hosea's wife or wives has not been determined. My line continues through Hosea's granddaughter, Margaret (Peggy) Rose, daughter of his son Elisha Rose, who married John M. Wilhite. John and Peggy are buried in the cemetery at the New Hopewell Baptist Church in Kimberlin Heights, Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee.
Much of the information on my Rose Ancestry comes from the Rose Family Association, a very good source for information on various Rose families, as well as my own research.
See Charts for my descent from Theodore Rose.
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