RANSOME, Rose
Rose Ransome was born at [Old] Foundry Road, Ipswich on 21 July 1863 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich on 20 October 1864, daughter of Robert James Ransome (27 June 1830-3 June 1891), an ironfounder, and his wife Charlotte Louisa Taylor (27 September 1832-6 June 1911), daughter of William Taylor, a shipbuilder of Woodbridge, who married at Ipswich on 3 May 1854, Rose was a sister to Frank Ransome and Louisa Kate Ransome. Rose was educated at a private school at 25 Sussex Square, Brighton where she was boarding in 1881. A member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1886-1887 and as Miss R. Ransome exhibiting from Stoke Hall, Ipswich in 1885, 'Mere at Thorpe' and 'Spring, Summer and Autumn', in 1885 'An October Afternoon', in 1886 'Old Cottage at Chaddinton' and 'Sizewell Cliff' and in 1887 'A Gleam of Sunshine'. She married at St Mary Stoke Church, Ipswich on 1 June 1887, Norman Graham and in 1891 Norman Graham was a 31-year-old tea dealer, living with his 26-year-old wife Rose, at Rose Mount, Queen's Road, Brentwood, Essex. By 1911 he had taken up in his wife's family business as an engineering manufacturer living at Brook Witney, Hambledon, Surrey. In 1939, Rose Graham was an invalid, living at Priors Wood, Compton, Guildford, Surrey, with a secretary, nurse, cook and housemaid and where she died, without issue, on 20 October 1940.
Note - some of her exhibits at Ipswich Fine Art Club may be conflated with other Ransome sisters as earlier exhibits are given just as by Miss Ransome of Stoke Hall, Ipswich.