This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: TROYROSESR Surnames: PROFFITT/ROSE Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.wolfe/1220.1222.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: NO THEY ARE DESCENDANTS OF DAVID ROSE BORN 1735ad his father i believe was was william rose of aberdeenshire scotland Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
HI-- John and Rebecca are my 4X great-grandparents. At the present time they are still searching for John's parents. They are doing DNA testing now, and are not exactly sure where he came from. Personally, I like to think that he was descended from the Roses at Kilvarock (Kil-rock) Scotland near Inverness. They say the DNA proves he was descended from the "Long Island Roses" so we really don't know. We do have more information about Rebecca. Her grandfather, Moses Owen (which became Bowen after he came through immigration) came from Wales with a group of Welsh immigrants about 1699. They settled in PA. Rebecca's father was David, son of Moses, and she named two of her seven sons David Bowen and Bowen David. I don't know if she did this to keep her father's name and her maiden name alive. But if she did, she certainly succeeded. There are David Bowen's and Bowen DAvid's galore in Rose lines coming down to the present day(There were two girls too.) They all moved from what is now West Va. to what is now Wolfe Co., KY about 1803--or somewhere in the very early 1800's and settled on what is called Lacy Creek, near Hazel Green, in what is now Wolfe Co., KY, with the exception of one daughter who was married and had a family. She stayed in VA. John and Rebecca are both buried at Lacy Creek along with a few other family members in a a very small cemetery. I am descended from the first David Bowen Rose, son of John and Rebecca. He married Sarah NIckell, and their son, James Nelson Rose who married Fannie Swango, dau. of George Washington Swango are my g-g-grandparents. Well, I guess that's enough for now. Good to talk to another Rose cousin. Bess Rose Miller