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                   ROSE HANNAH / ROSANNAH ROUND (Rosa) was born 15th May 1861 and registered in the Dudley registration district.  She was, however, baptised at St. Johns, Woolston, in 1865 with her brother Elisha.  She was very musical, a lovely singer and pianist and the organist at the Methodist Church, Catherine Street.  In the great Christchurch flood in the 1880s, Rosa was singing in the city and so she was rowed to St. Peters, at the corner of Ferry and Aldwins Road, and from there took a cab into the city.
Rosa married Richard Charles Pitt, at St. Johns Church, Woolston on 8th November 1876 and their children were Augustus (died as an infant), Richard and Edith.  She died on 5th December 1887, aged 27, at Napier and is buried there, but there is no headstone now if ever.  Her husband later remarried.