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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The original message really caused me to blink!  I thought I logged on to the wrong site!  I live in Fayette County Pennsylvania  and am a regular participant in various local history sites.  If anyone has a connection to this <strong>Milson ROSSER </strong>and needs to be pointed in the right direction, I'll be happy to offer any assistance, I can.  The good folks at the Fayette County - Yahoo site are as generous and helpful as the good folks here at the FoDFH site!</p>
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<title>John ROSSER m Ann JONES 1850 (reply)</title>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Year: 1850 <br />
Month: Mar <br />
Day: 10 <br />
Grooms_Surname: ROSSER <br />
Grooms_Forenames: John <br />
Grooms_Age: 21 <br />
Groom_Condition: Bachelor <br />
Grooms_Occupation: Collier <br />
Grooms_Residence: Bigg`s Slade <br />
Grooms_Fathers_Surname: BARRON <br />
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames: William <br />
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation: Mason </p>
<p>Brides_Surname: JONES <br />
Brides_Forenames: Ann <br />
Brides_Age: 19 <br />
Brides_Condition: Spinster <br />
Brides_Occupation:  <br />
Brides_Residence: Lane End <br />
Brides_Fathers_Surname: JONES <br />
Brides_Fathers_Forenames: William <br />
Brides_Fathers_Occupation: Collier <br />
Licence_or_Banns: Banns <br />
Date_of_Banns:  <br />
Signature_or_Mark: both mark <br />
Witness_1: Thomas Baylis <br />
Witness_2: Mark of George Benfield <br />
Other_Witnesses:  <br />
Officiating_Minister: Henry Poole <br />
Event: Marriage <br />
Memoranda:  <br />
Notes: Grooms surname is different to his fathers <br />
Register_Reference: P145 IN 1/20 <br />
Page_Number: 87 <br />
Parish_Chapel: Parkend</p>
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<title>Milson ROSSER 1850 - 1893 Bixhead -&gt; Pittsburgh</title>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County</strong> by Gresham and<br />
Wiley, 1889, p376</p>
<p>Milson Rosser, General Superintendent of the Jimtown &amp; Sterling Coke<br />
Works, was born in Gloucestershire, England, 12th of january, 1850, and<br />
is a son of John Rosser and Ann Jones Rosser.</p>
<p>1841  seem to be staying in home of William AMBLIN<br />
Eliza Rosser abt 1826  Gloucestershire, England Newland, Gloucestershire <br />
John Rosser abt 1831  Gloucestershire, England Newland, Gloucestershire </p>
<p>Name: Milson Jones <br />
Year of Registration: 1850  <br />
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar  <br />
District: Monmouth (1837-1939)  <br />
County: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire  <br />
Volume: 26  <br />
Page: 80  </p>
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1851 Bixhead Slade<br />
 John Rosser  abt 1829  West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Head  West Dean, Gloucestershire  Coal Miner<br />
Ann Rosser  abt 1831  West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Wife  West Dean, Gloucestershire  <br />
 Milson Rosser  abt 1850  West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son  West Dean, Gloucestershire </p>
<p><br />
John Rosser in 1852 came from Gloucestershire, England, to<br />
Temperanceville, Penna (now a part of the thirty sixth ward of<br />
Pittsburgh) and in the ensuing year was joined by his family. <br />
In 1859 he removed to Mason county, Virginia, now West Virginia,<br />
remained there until 1866 when he returned to Pennsylvania and located in<br />
Mansfield Valley, Allegheny county, Penna. He has always been engaged in<br />
the coal business, and is now operating a coal bank in Mansfield Valley. <br />
Mr Rosser is a member of the Baptist church. </p>
<p>Milton Rosser attended the common schools of Pittsburgh and the pay<br />
schools of Mason county, Virginia. At twelve years of age he entered the<br />
coal mines, and went to work at twenty five cents per day. For twenty<br />
years he labored in coal mines and became thoroughly acquainted with all<br />
the details of mine management. Where other miners had worked, he had<br />
worked, and filled every position to be filled in a coal mine, thought<br />
and observed, and in 1875 was selected by Huntsman, Miller &amp; Co as<br />
superintendent of their coal works situated twelve miles from Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>In 1878 the firm made an assignment and he accepted the superintendency<br />
of the mines of David Steen &amp; Sons' coal works at Camp Hill. From 1880 to<br />
1885 he served as mine superintendent at Jimtown coal works of J M<br />
Schoonmaker, which position he still holds with credit to himself and<br />
satisfaction to all concerned.</p>
<p>On December 24, 1871, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Wilcox, daughter<br />
of John W and Mary Wilcox, one of the first mine inspectors in western<br />
Pennsylvania and a man now worth considerable money, gained by his own<br />
efforts. Mr and Mrs Rosser have seven children: George Rosser, Mary Ann<br />
Rosser, Alice Rosser, William Rosser, Florence Rosser, Bertha Rosser and<br />
Laura Bell Rosser.</p>
<p>He is a staunch republican, has been for several years the republican<br />
central committee man of his township, served on the republican county<br />
committee, and is now serving as school director of Lower Tyrone<br />
township. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and belongs to the Odd<br />
Fellows. He owns an interest in the stone quarry on the P McK Y R R west<br />
of Dawson. Mr Rosser is one of that class of self-made men who only need<br />
opportunity to pass the front in most any line of business.</p>
<p>June 24 17893 Milson Rosser, 43 yrs, Dawson Station</p>
<p><br />
Chartiers Cemetery<br />
  Greentree (Pittsburgh), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania<br />
  801 Noblestown Rd. (Zip code: 15106)</p>
<p>Bertha Rosser<br />
  May 26, 1885<br />
  December 17, 1896</p>
<p>  Mary Ann Rosser<br />
  Dec. 7, 1873<br />
  Jan. 16, 1896</p>
<p>  George Rosser<br />
  Oct. 3, 1871<br />
  Feb. 17, 1920</p>
<p>  Ella May Rosser<br />
  July 8, 1881<br />
  Jan. 7, 1882</p>
<p>  Alice Rosser<br />
  March 28, 1876<br />
  June 14, 1904</p>
<p>  Elizabeth Rosser<br />
  born Mar. 6, 1854,<br />
  died Sept. 21, 1921</p>
<p><br />
  Milson Rosser.<br />
  Born Jan. 12, 1850,<br />
  Died June 24, 1893<br />
  FATHER</p>
<p>  ROSSER (monument)</p>
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