From the Maitland Mercury report:
Bob Rose has the blood of the founders of Australia in his veins. The Ashtonfield man can trace his ancestry to a series of firsts in the colonisation of Australia, starting with the first convicts to step foot on the soil of a land that would become a nation. As the nation celebrates the 223rd anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet at Port Jackson on January 26, the day is also a commemoration of the arrival of his ancestor, John Cross, to the shores of a wild continent on the bottom of the world after escaping the hangman’s noose.
Full article by Briony Snedden available at Maitland Mercury 21 Jan, 2011.
