Victor
Albert Rose
Recap.
In my
research so far on the children of Charles and Mary Rose of Dover, Tasmania, and their lives, I’ve
covered the four daughters (see previous posts).
My
ggrandmother Kezia……b 1869
Lillian
(Lockley)………………b 1873
Eva
(Christie)…………………b 1875
Linda (Hardy)…………………b 1884
Now begins the task of tackling the sons. The
first son was Victor Albert Rose, born 1871, he was Kezia’s first sibling.
Albert, as he was known as, was born when the
family lived at Castle Forbes Bay. Elizabeth Goodrick registered the baby, a
month after the birth, describing herself as a settler of Franklin, and listing
Charles as a farmer.
Albert’s early life as a younger man has left
no readily obvious paper trail. He committed no crimes, had no noteworthy accidents, and had
neither a wife nor children, on paper anyway. Like his brothers, uncles,
cousins and forebears, Albert presumably would have been a timber man. This
presumption is based on his first piece of online paper record, a Certificate of
Competency as a Second Class Engine Driver. He attained this in April 1907 at
the age of thirty-six.
Albert lived most of his life at Ida Bay/ Lune River. Even as a Tasmanian myself, I've never been to these towns, and all I’ve ever really known about them is that they’re almost as far south as one can go in our state. By 1850, the enormous timber resources in the far south, were being harvested, milled and shipped from these southern areas such as Hastings, Leprena and Recherche.
In 1902 a Post Office opened at the sawmilling settlement of Lune River, with a hall and a school following in 1904. The Mercury newspaper regularly reported news from a Lune River correspondent in the early years of the twentieth century. Yearly sports carnivals were held, played on sawdust. A football team was formed, and reports of school childrens’ yearly achievements, dances, timber-workers socials, and concerts, all contributed to a vibrant town life where Albert had settled.
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In 1918, Albert attained his Certificate of
Competency as a First Class Engine Driver.
Albert’s work as an engine driver didn’t
exclude him from injuries due to working on the saws themselves. In 1920 he
sustained a sever laceration of his right arm while oiling a bench spindle at
the sawmil, and was driven by car to Geeveston, then to the Royal Hobart Hospital for treatment.
Albert married at age fifty-one in 1922. He
married Mary Alice Armstrong on the 9th of July, at Dover. Alice (as
she was known), already had children. According to census records, Albert and
Alice lived at Ida Bay/ Lune River for the next twenty-one years. The sawmill
suffered another devastating fire in 1929, leaving every man in the town out of
work. In November 1934, influenza spread rapidly through the town with most of
the employees of either the limestone quarry, or the sawmill were badly affected.
Lune River, date unknown
In February 1943, Alice passed away peacefully at their home at Lune River.
The following year Albert and his stepchildren placed a loving
memorial to her in the newspaper.
With Alice gone, Albert then moved to Hobart. In
1944 he was recorded as living at 21 Wellington Street.
He died in March 1957. Albert’s cemetery form
states he lived to eighty-four years of age, although my maths would say he was
almost eighty-six. He is interred with Alice at Cornelian Bay.
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