How to Pronounce Rosetta Jane Birks
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Mar 12, 1856 Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1855)
Australian suffragist
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About Rosetta Jane Birks
- Rosetta Jane "Rose" Birks (1856–1911) was a social reformer and philanthropist who played a key role in South Australian women's suffrage. Birks née Thomas was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 12 March 1856 to English-born parents William Kyffin Thomas, proprietor of the Observer and Register newspapers, and his wife Mary Jane Thomas, née Good.
- Known to her family as Rose, Birks was heavily involved in the Flinders Street Baptist Church in Adelaide that her father helped establish.In 1879 Birks married her sister's widower, wealthy Baptist merchant Charles Napier Birks and became the stepmother to her six nieces and nephews.
- The Birks family would later establish the Charles Birks & Co department store in Rundle Street, Adelaide.
