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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« on: Thursday 05 November 15 18:51 GMT (UK)  »
I think your Charles Rootsey was some man! From a convict to having his own land and being remembered, shows what is possible.
Have you had a look at the land at all? It must be interesting to see it.

As to his background, that's not easy to work out from the family tree I have been given. Looking at his age of 17 when he left on the Albion. The only Charles Rootsey I have shows he was born 1813 and died 1825, father Samuel, a noted Botanist in the Bristol Area married to Elizabeth Wolfe, so unless he moved early which is entirely possible in those years, its a different Charles.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« on: Thursday 29 October 15 17:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Alan UK ,
   Have you seen Charles Edgar Rootsey's war service record (61 pages) ?

   Here it is http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8037527

regards,
  Ros
Hi Ros

No, I hadnt seen that one. I have a whole bunch of other war records but not this, which shows me addresses for his parents. my uncle Dennis Rootsey (92) told me he had left school at 14 and got on a ship looking for work in Australia on his own and joined the AIF. I am not sure if he was in Gallipoli but definitely in Palestine and Egypt where he met his dad who had been in the trenches (Old Contemptibles) and were moved out once they had been decimated.

Both were milkmen who lived in  Mountpleasant Road, Lewisham.  Interestingly Charles Rootsey of Snowy river seems to have had a cattle station called Mount Pleasant too!

Grandad left the AIF in Port Said after the war  and went home to look after my great grandfather who had been sent home in a cage due to shellshock. great Grandad died in a lone bombing on a small village after being removed from London because of the bombing.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Please help find Charles Rootsey!
« on: Monday 04 August 14 19:46 BST (UK)  »
Hello, just saw this site as I was trying to work out where my granddad fought in the first world war, His name was Charles Edgar Rootsey who left by ship at age 14 to find work in Australia, and from what my family told me, he was working with fruit as well as sheep, and joined the AIF in 1914, met his dad, my great grandfather in Cairo after he had returned from Gallipoli on his way to the Somme. Very interesting...

Charles Rootsey according to what I have found spent 6 months in the prison ship Albion on his way to Australia....after that its pretty vague, but if anybody needs info on the Uk side I will do my best. Alan Rootsey

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