On Mar 7, 9:49 pm, Kristy Willoughby <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks again everyone for your help. The Right Honorable George Rose is an interesting character isn't he? George was known to sponsor promising naval officers, Horatio Nelson and Arthur Phillip are two of the famous ones. Nelson dined with Rose at Cuffnells before Trafalgar and Phillip named the Sydney Suburbs of Rosehill and Rose Bay after his supporter. I have a genealogy of the Rose Clan of Kilravock, but unfortunately it is far from complete. A lot of the younger sons are listed as merely "having issue". I have wondered if my Robert Reginald Richmond Rose could be slotted in there somewhere. > As for George Roses property in Antigua, as he lived in England , wouldn't someone have to manage it? Given the clannish nature of the Roses, could it have been one of his relatives? Please tell me if this theory is rubbish. I feel that I am tilting at windmills with the whole Robert RR mystery, and another pair of eyes would be a great help! I went so far as to get a copy of George Rose's will ( its only money after all) but it didn't do me any good as I find it impossible to read! > I would love to sit down with William C Griffith and ask him WHY he thought his grandfather was the son of the Duke of Richmond. I have found nothing at all to support this theory so far. BUT I have to remember that William C was his grandson and would have heard the family story from his mother Ann Rose, Roberts daughter. What always strikes me as odd is that NONE of Roberts grandchildren seem to know where he was born or where he died. I would have thought that Ann, in between telling her children stories of noble descent etc, would have said something like "Dad dropped dead in the front garden" or "Dad fell overboard in the West Indies". The fact that she apparently didn't strikes me as odd. > Thanks again for your help > Anne Anne, I've done a bit of transcribing of old documents. If you send me a scan of the will, I'll see if I can help Alastair [email protected]