Four women called Rose on Good Hope
The 1817 slave register for John Tharp's Good Hope estate includes eight individuals whose mother was called Rose: Jack (b. 1787), Aaron (b. 1794), Catalina (b. 1797), Dapper aka Davy (b. 1799), Jemmy (b. 1800), Phillis (1804-1830), Joseph (b. 1807) and Nancy (b. 1814).
There were four women called Rose on the estate who could have given birth to some or all of these children:
2. The next oldest Rose was born in about 1771, in Africa. She would have been 16 when Jack was born and 43 when Nancy was born, so she could have been the mother of all eight of these children.
3. The third Rose was born in about 1775, also in Africa. She would only have been 12 when Jack was born, but by the time Aaron was born she would have been 19. She was about 39 when Nancy was born.
4. The youngest Rose was born in about 1788 in Jamaica. She couldn't have been the mother of Jack, Aaron or (probably) Dapper, but by the time Phillis was born, she was 16 years old. She could also have been the mother of Joseph and Nancy.
Going down a generation, possible children for Catalina and Nancy are discussed in posts called 'Three women called Catalina on Good Hope' and 'Six women called Nancy on Good Hope'.
The mother of Sharper (m), who was born and died in 1826, was named as Phillis, and there was only one woman of that name on Good Hope.
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