John Roseblade

Coleford

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John Roseblade

John Musto Roseblade (1845-1916) pictured in the uniform of the Gloucestershire
Volunteers around 1866, was born in the Cotswolds village of Somerford Keynes.

He was a stonemason living at Coleford in the 1880s. His wife Mary Ann Critchley
(1843) who he married in 1874 was from a Scowles quarryman's family. Mary Ann
died at Victoria Road Coleford in 1883 leaving him with three children.

John remarried that same year to a carpenter's daughter Lucy Partridge (born 1842).

In 1886 the family migrated to Queensland, Australia. He became a successful
farmer and is recorded as being one of the Founding Fathers of the town of
Yungaburra in the Atherton Tablelands where a street is named after him.

Photo and details supplied by Tom Bint