Rossi family - papers, 1799-1903

A 1695

fonds

1799-1903

442367

Microfilm : CY 2736, frames 60-126 (A 1695)

1 volume and 1 outsize item - 0.04 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Textual Records - (printed)

Francis Nicholas Rossi was born in Corsica in 1776. He joined the British Army in 1795 and served in Holland, Gibraltar, Ceylon and Mauritius. In 1825 he took up the position of Superintendant of Police in New South Wales. In 1834 he retired to his property, Rossiville, in the Goulburn district. He died in 1851.

Material relating to Francis Nicholas Rossi including autobiographical and biographical notes; his military commission (1799); survey of the new town of Goulburn by Robert Hoddle (1833); survey of 820 acres of land applied for by Rossi near Goulburn (1835).
Material relating to Francis Robert Louis Rossi including legal documents concerning land near Goulburn (1863-1903); his certificate of marriage (1894); documents regarding a claim to land near Goulburn by his widow (1903).

English, French

A hand coloured plan of the lands of Francis Rossi, near Goulburn, ca 1836 has been removed from this volume and placed at MLMSS 7464X.
See also A 723 copied onto microfilm reel CY 2736, frames 127-204.