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Descendants of Samson Rose

Generation No. 1

1. SAMSON¹ ROSE was born 1786 in Dorset, England. He married ELIZABETH BAKER 1806.

Notes for SAMSON ROSE:
Anglicans

Moved to Prince Edward Island, 1806
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            THE HISTORY OF THE "ROSES"

                  1797 - 1974       By MaryLou MacAulay

      Lindsay, Ernst, Alfred, Joseph, Samuel, Samson Rose - cousin, uncle, grandfather, great grandfather, great & great grandfather and great great great grandfather Rose. Where and when did it ever begin?
      The first "Rose" to arrive on P.E.I. coming to North Lake, was Peter who came in the summer of 1797 from Dorset England in company with Captain Minwarum who was retired from the Royal Navy. Peter Rose had served at sea under his command. Also with them was a housekeeper, Martha Potts. They built a house of logs (the custom in the early days of settlement), just north of the lake and down the hill from the present day Louis Roses's home.
      After a few years Captain Minwarum returned to England and all the land he had acquired and most of his belongings he left with Peter Rose who then sent home for his younger brother Samson to join him at North Lake.
      Samson Rose married Elizabeth Baker in Dorset England in 1805 and came to Prince Edward Island in 1806. Their first child "Stephen" was born in 1807 at North Lake. The Bakers were "Somerset Folk".
      The children of Samson and Elizabeth were:
      Stephen            Elizabeth
      Philip            Mary
      William            Anne
      Peter            Martha
      Jariz            Harriet
            Samuel
Samuel my great, great grandfather was the youngest son.
      The Roses were staunch Anglicans. Samson being a lay reader. Elizabeth took all her children to Charlottetown to be christened. They must have gone by vessel, about the only way to travel long distances in those far off days, as the roads were only paths through the primeval forest where bears were numerous.
Around the year 1840 Samuel Rose married Johanna MacDonald, daughter of John MacDonald, a Highland Scotsman. Johanna's brother Donald was the ancestor of the Daniel "Dan" MacDonald M.P. They had a family of nine children, four being twins. The oldest being margaret who married Angie Gregory Campbell of Priest Pond. Their home was in their time, referred to as the "Refuge of Sinners", due to the fact that many weary travellers were given shelter there. Deserters from the English Navy were known to have been hidden by Margaret until those searching for them had gone, but one sailor was known to have been taken from the house by force one stormy night. no doubt Margaret inherited the hospitality of the Highlanders from her mother Johanna. For the Highlanders was where it was said:
            "To assail a wearied man where shame,
            And stranger is a holy name."
Mary married Andrew MacAulay and they lived in Priest Pond. Theresa Francis, the youngest of Samuel and Johanna, married Patrick Grady whose father was John O'Grady of Waterford City in Ireland. Little is know of John Rose other than he went to Boston at an early age and died of a heart attack from lifting a large stone. Then there were the twins - Mathew married Flora MacIntyre a near relative of Bishop MacIntyre. Matt moved west and fished off the coast of British Columbia. Mark, the other twin, married a MacKinnon girl from Rollo Bay and they moved to British Columbia. Mark was the first tin-smith in Vancouver. He is also the grandfather of Mark Rose NDP member of parliament for the Fraser Valley in BC. As for the other set of twins, they were Stephen and Jim. Stephen was the father of Willie Rose of Mt. _______and I don't know anything about Jim. The final son is Joseph, my great grandfather. He married Elizabeth Hanning.
      It is now about time to hear what happened to our first settlers. Peter Rose ended up marrying Martha Potts (the housekeeper), unfortunately he died by being kicked by a horse at the lake. Martha then married William Anderson, but he was drowned at North Lake. She spent the remaining years of her life with Samson and Elizabeth. Great, great, great grandfather and grandmother Samson and Elizabeth were laid to rest in the old North Lake Cemetery, just north of the lake, near the bridge, but sad to say the sea has claimed part of it. This might be compared to a poem that goes like:
      "They laid them gently down,
      Within hearing of the wave,
      That the sound of the restless sea,
      Would be their requiem."
      Samuel Rose - father of Joseph and my great great grandfather died in his fifties of pneumonia in November of 1870. A strange thing happened to Samuel. As I mentioned the Roses were staunch Anglicans, however when Samuel married Johanna he joined her in her Roman Catholic Church. This was like loosing a son or brother and letting them go to the devils. Well, when Samuel died (it was in the time of all night wakes) while Elizabeth was up with the remains overnight, three of his brothers from North Lake came over to Priest Pond, where Samuel lived, and told Joanna to go and have a rest and that they would stay with the remains. All was well, however when Johanna got up it was only to discover that her dear husband's remains were gone. The Rose brothers had taken Samuel's body and buried him in the South Lake Cemetery. By the time Johanna reached a priest, nothing could be done. This was kept a secret to prevent hard feelings and it was only a couple of years ago that this generation or the last generation of Rose's heard of this.
      Now, who belonged to Joseph Rose and Elizabeth Hannings's family. They had a family of eight - five boys and three girls and they all went west but two - my grandfather Alfred and his sister Hanna. Hanna died at the early age of seventeen with tuberculosis. My grandfather settled in Priest Pond to farm and married Florence MacInnis (R.N.) of North Lake. Sam Rose second son of Joseph and Elizabeth was a barber and real-estate agent in Vancouver. Matt Rose, the only living male of the family at the present time, was a police chief in Vancouver and now lives on his son Guy's ranch in Quilchena, B.C. The Guichon Ranch is one of the largest in British Columbia. And it is from this ranch that the farms get a lot of their cattle. Dan and Maurice rose have been dead for some time, however both of them were in the lumber business just north of Vancouver. The oldest member of my grandfather Rose's family is still living and she is Margaret who married Robert Sowden and now lives in Vancouver. My grand aunt Phennie, Mrs. Donald MacAulay is also still living at Powell River, B.C.
      It was to the home of Joseph Rose, Priest Pond, that in 1908 the captain of the shipwrecked Sovinto landed. The Sovinto was a Russian lumber ship that got thrown ashore off Priest Pond due to a storm at sea. Joseph and the Captain went to Souris and wired for money and help. Very few of the crew were saved, those who were stayed in Priest Pond until help arrived from Charlottetown. The oak table of the captain's cabin is the table used by my grandmother today in the old home. Other furnishings that came ashore are found in many homes to this day along the North side. Two years later in 1910 Joseph Rose died.
      Like his fathers before him Alfred Rose and Florence MacInnis too had a fairly large family. Frances married Francis Cheverie of East Point, they live in Lakeville. He is employed by the Provincial Parks and does some small farming. Florence, a teacher, is married to Clemont MacDonald of Nova Scotia and they live in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Theresa married Donald Dugan and they live in Massachusetts, U.S.A. Daniel, also living in Lakeville married Nellie Foley of St. Catherines P.E.I. Danny is a tuna fisherman along with deep sea and lobster fishing. Ernest, the youngest of the Alfred Rose family, also lives in the home community of Lakeville. He too is a fisherman and also a farmer. He married Pat Jarvis of Elmira. (The cousin Lindsay is their son). Elizabeth, the only deceased member of the family was married to Ernest Avey and this family now lives in Covehead. Margaret, once a teacher, now lives in Sherwood and is married to Stewart MacAulay. Kenneth is settled in the home place and he is a construction worker. He married Lillian MacEachern. The oldest of the Alfred Rose-Florence MacInnis family is Anna. She is married to Joseph MacAulay and --- she is my mother.
      It was in 1967 that my grandfather "Papa" Rose died of hardening of the arteries.
      With all those Roses, it looks as if the name will not become extinct for sometime.

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Children of SAMSON ROSE and ELIZABETH BAKER are:

2.	i.	SAMUEL² ROSE, b. 1820.
	ii.	MARTHA ROSE.
	iii.	HARRIET ROSE.
	iv.	ELIZABETH ROSE.
	v.	ANNE ROSE.
	vi.	MARY ROSE.
	vii.	WILLIAM ROSE.
	viii.	PHILLIP ROSE.
	ix.	JARIZ ROSE.
	x.	PETER ROSE.
	xi.	STEPHEN ROSE.

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