Rosa Jane Butler (abt. 1822 - 1893)

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Died 28 May 1893 at about age 71 in Clarence St., Church Hill, Sydney, NSW

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Rosa Jane Butler was born in Jamaica, West Indies in 1815 and baptised in the Parish of Manchester, Jamaica on 24 January 1817. Rosa Jane Butler spent her childhood on the family’s coffee estate ‘Littleton’, near Mandeville, in the County of Middlesex, Parish of Manchester, Jamaica. Rosa and her siblings were most probably attended to by servants from an early age. Upwards of seventeen slaves worked on the ‘Littleton’, estate during Rosa’s childhood. Rosa married Thomas Barker Scholey, a son of Joseph Scholey and his wife Mary, in about 1837. Thomas Barker Scholey was baptised on 27 May 1807 at Pontefract, Yorkshire England and at least 10 years senior to Rosa. Thomas Scholey was a coffee planter in Jamaica and in the 1840’s was a proprietor of the ‘Tryston’ estate which had an area of 20 acres (8ha). Rosa and Thomas Scholey had left Jamaica for England by 1850 and at the time of the 1851 census (according Rosa a birth year of 1819 and Thomas 1809) were living at 11 St. Peters Street, Islington, Finsbury where Thomas worked as a florist and salesman. The marriage produced no children. Rosa Scholey nee Butler joined her mother, Eliza Butler nee Swaby, sister, Laura Blackmore, and her family, in immigrating to Australia, aboard the ‘Light of the Age’ in 1855. Thomas Scholey however remained in England where he was admitted to the Workhouse of St Mary Islington. The 1861 British census records Thomas Scholey as an inmate of the workhouse, aged 55. His occupancy in the workhouse suggests that he was poverty stricken and had become physically or mentally incapacitated. While Eliza Butler and the Blackmore family initially settled in the Glebe district of Sydney before moving to Limestone (Ipswich, then in the colony of NSW) around 1858 Rosa Scholey appears to have chosen to settle in inner city Sydney from the outset. (source Don Wotton)

She was the daughter of Thomas Butler and Eliza Swaby. She passed away in 1893. ^[1]

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