Unfortunately, the ROSIER family exist only on paper for me: my maternal grandmother died long before I was born, and I have never heard any family legend relating to them. But when they use names like Arabella and Silvanus, they have to be more than an average family !
ROSIER was apparently a Huguenot name, brought over by persercuted Protestants from France.
My research has not progressed very well so far: it is difficult to decide just where Thomas and Mary at the top of the Table married, and which were their childhhood families. The ROSIER surname was an extremely frequent one in the Hungerford area, and also in the surrounding parishes in Hampshire and Wiltshire. To obscure the picture even more, Thomas was also a very popular given name.
They may be the Thomas and Mary PIKE who married at Shalbourn in 1778,
but it is by no means certain. If you know or suspect anything, please
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There were ROSIERS in Kintbury back to 1737, and in the adjoining parish
of Hungerford back to 1640, but it has been impossible to establish
continuity.
The general consensus is that the name came over with the Huguenots,
who as Protestants were persecuted in their native France.
Thomas ROSIER m Mary (???)
Thomas (bap Kintbury 1784) m (Kintbury 1808) Elizabeth
MURFOOT
?John bapt 1810
?Henry bapt 1812
?William bapt 1814
?Ann bapt 1817
?Harriett Bapt 1817
?Benjamin bapt 1822
?Thomas bapt 1825
?Eliza bapt 1827
Silvanus (bap Kintbury 1790) m (Kintbury 1824) Frances DENNIS (widow)
John (bap Kintbury 1793)
Arabella (bap Kintbury 1794)m (Kintbury 1831) George TUBB (chr Kintbury 1796)
John TUBB
bap Kintbury 15.1.1832: m1860 Ann WOOD @ Lambourn
for family details see TUBB
page
Ellen TUBB b1834 Kintbury
(last trace 1851 Census)
Notes.
My direct ancestors underlined.
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