Career
Matthew Rosamond married Bridget Mahoney in Agra, West Bengal on 21 July 1851. The English 1861 census for Eaton Socon in Bedfordshire, shows Matthew Rosamond home from India five years before his death. Rosamund/Rosamond was born in the village of Saint Neots, Huntingdonshire (some records say Swallow Cliffe, Wiltshire.
Other says Seaton Town, Bedfordshire), the son and grandson of soldiers.
This Non-Commissioned Officer volunteered to accompany Lieutenant-Colonel Spottiswoode, Commanding the 37th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, to the right of the Lincolnshire, in order to set them on fire, with the view of driving out the Sepoys,—on the occasion of the outbreak at Benares, on the evening of the 4th of June, 1857. And also volunteered, with Serjeant-Major Gill, of the Loodiana
His conduct was highly meritorious, and he has been since promoted.
His Venture capital medal was sold at auction in 1903 and has not been located since. He died on the Red Sea on 14th July 1866 and was buried at sea.
This building was built by Budd"s Bakers as a new bakehouse around 1930, replacing a much older timber framed property.".