Rose Ethel Bartlett
Rose was born in 1895 in the Mudgee district of New South Wales, probably in the Merrendee area, now known as Yarrabin. Her parents were John Bartlett and Mary Jane Finlay.
In 1917 Rose married Avelyn William Roy Endacott (known as "Roy") and they had three daughters. However Roy developed relationships with a number of other women and eventually formed a long-term relationship with a local girl named Illa May Holley. Roy and Illa moved away, leaving Rose alone to raise their daughters. It appears that Roy's father, John Endacott was appalled by the behaviour of his only son and he stepped in to help his daughter-in-law and grand-daughters. Rose's young family maintained love and respect for the grandfather who was helping to raise them and he was affectionately known as "Daddy Jack". John's wife and Roy's mother, Elizabeth, died in 1927.
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The electoral roll for 1930 shows that Rose Ethel Endacott was residing at Yarrabin and her occupation was stated as home duties, which is consistent with her having young children to raise. In the 1933 electoral roll, she is shown as residing at Dulmore, Burns Road, Kellyville, again undertaking home duties. Kellyville was a small rural settlement on the outskirts of Sydney and she was living on the farm which her father-in-law was running at the time, although the same census describes his occupation as “retired”.
The Births, Deaths and Marriages records for New South Wales show Rose and Roy as the parents of an unnamed female infant which was born and died in 1933 at Nyngan NSW. However by this time, Roy and long gone from Rose's life. It is believed that the child was born to Roy's now de facto, Illa, but Roy chose to register his legal wife as the mother of the child. It is not known why he did this, other than embarrassment about having a child to a woman who was not his wife. Roy and Illa eventually settled in the Toowoomba region in Queensland where they raised Roy's second family. No record has been located of any divorce from Rose or second marriage.
In the 1936 electoral roll, Rose is residing at the Stoke Hotel, Carcoar where her father-in-law had taken over the licence. However "Daddy Jack" died in 1939, leaving Rose to fend for herself, although her daughters were older by then. In the 1943 electoral roll, Rose is shown as residing at 12 Helen St., Westmead, a suburb of Sydney, and undertaking home duties. However it is understood that she worked at some stage for the Howard Auto/Tractor company at nearby Northmead, possibly in the manufacture of weapons during World War Two. In the 1954 electoral roll, Rose is shown as residing at Eade Vale, Euchareena (a small settlemetn located between Orange and Wellington).
Rose died in 1978 at Mona Vale, a northern beach suburb of Sydney, where she had been residing with one of her daughters and son-in-law.
