Thomas Rose of Fordington

Thomas Rose (born c1591/92) of Fordington Dorset England

Pilgrims from Fordington: The ROSE Family (Also spelt ROSSE or ROWSE or ROUSE) ©Compiled by Michael Russell OPC for Fordington March 2010 link

Summary

Details are given below of the research carried out into the life of Thomas ROSE who married Anne EAMES in Fordington in 1618, and raised a family there between 1619 and 1631. Although many records both in England and Massachusetts are missing I believe there is a wealth of evidence which supports the contention that the family emigrated to New England with Anne's brother Anthony EAMES in 1633 and settled in Scituate Massachusetts sometime prior to the year 1640.
As Thomas & Anne ROSE and their family disappear from Fordington after 1631, and there is strong evidence of a family of that name being in Scituate MA before 1640 I am reasonably confident that they emigrated with Anne's brother Antony EAMES and his family on the 'Recovery of London' which set sail from Weymouth on 31st March 1633, arriving in Charlestown in about July of that year.

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Pilgrims from Fordington: The EAMES Family (Also spelt EMES in many records or AMES) link Compiled by Michael Russell OPC for Fordington

Thomas (c1549-1618) & Millicent (c1551-1614) Eames

Their five known children were:-

5. Anne Eames (c1593/4-?) If she was the average age for women of 25 when she married she would have been born in 1593/4. Bishops Transcripts for most years around this date were destroyed in the great fire at Blandford in 1731. We have her marriage however to a Thomas Rose in Fordington on 14 January 1618/9.

Anne Eames and Thomas Rose appears to have had four children:

• (a)Thomas Rose (1619-1628) Baptised 19 Dec 1619 Fordington he died at the age of 9 being buried in Fordington on 7 April 1628 as Thomas son of Thomas Rose.
• (b) Hannah Rose (1622-?) Baptised Fordington 20 Oct 1622
• (c) Lydia Rose (1625-1631) Baptised Fordington 5 Mar 1625/6 she was buried there on 12 Apr 1631 her death being recorded in the Bishops Transcripts by Anthony Eames who was churchwarden then.
• (d) Thomas Rose (1630/1- ?) named in memory of his younger brother who died in 1628 he was baptised in Fordington on 23 January 1630/1

I have carried out a separate study of this family and the summary of the evidence assembled about them strongly suggests that they emigrated to New England with Anthony Eames arriving in Charlestown about 1633 and settling in what is now called Scituate. The two families continued to live close to one another with two of Anthony's daughters marrying and settling in Scituate(5). See Pilgrims from Fordington - The ROSE Family link

From published works in America we seem to have at least 3 generations of a Thomas ROSE located in the same area with descendants of both families continuing to live in the same towns:-.

The earliest references seem to point to an immigrant called Thomas Rose of Scituate and Marshfield (7) who was one of the original settlers of a tract of fertile land 2 miles in length and one in breadth called 'Two Miles' granted to Scituate in the year 1640 (8 & 9). If the Thomas Rose in Fordington went with Anthony Eames as suspected he would have arrived in Charlestown in July 1633 a time when large numbers were beginning to arrive from England. Most of the settlers especially yeomen and husbandmen wanted to establish their own smallholding's, and own rather than rent the land as they had in England. New towns were being established and its not surprising to find Anthony Eames along with his son-in-law William Sprague moving to Hingham in 1636 where they were granted land on the lower plain which would have been more fertile for planting. Its reasonable to suppose that Thomas Rose would have looked to do the same.

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Thomas Rose B: 1597apx Fordington, St George, Dorset, England D: 1695 M: 06/14/1618 at St Georges Church by Rev Edward Pele, to Anne Eames B: 1597 apx Fordington, St George, Dorset, England D: Fordington, St. George, Dorsetshire, England.
She was the daughter of Thomas Eames, II 1548-1618 and Millicent Brewster, 1552-1614. Anne had five brothers and three sisters, named Alice, John, Richard, Anthony, Mark, Anne, Alice and Alia.  She died in Fordington, Dorsetshire, England.
There is strong evidence of a family of that name being in Scituate MA before 1640. I am reasonably confident that they emigrated with Anne's brother Antony Eames and his family on the 'Recovery of London' which set sail from Weymouth on 31st March 1633, arriving in Charlestown in about July of that year.

References.

• "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJD4-B6NY : 2 June 2020), Thos Rose and Anne Eames, 1618.
• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NR5B-849 : 21 March 2020), Thomas Rose in entry for Thomas Rose, 1619.
• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N641-NF8 : 21 March 2020), Thomas Rose in entry for Hannah Rose, 1622.
• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3R2-25T : 21 March 2020), Thomas Rose in entry for Lydia Rose, 1625
• Although some further research is needed (See Genealogical Notes 4 & 5 below) there is no obvious sign that they moved elsewhere in England. The evidence that Anthony EAMES emigrated on the 'Recovery of London' comes from one of the port books of the Kings Remembrancer held at the National Archives in Kew. These were locally created records of customs duties paid. We are lucky in that they normally did not record passengers at all but one book [Ref E/190/875/8] specifically names 26 planters sailing to New England in 1633 (one of which is Anthony Eames) with a note that they had been allowed to export ‘diverse sorts of household stuff, apparel & other provisions’ to the value of £960 6s 8d, free of duty. The names listed would be the head of each family group who had satisfied the port official regarding duty not a definitive list of those on board. It is always possible that they sailed to New England on a different ship but despite research no evidence has come to light to this effect(6).