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Thomas Rossington
Thomas Oswald Rossington was the third son of John T. Rossington and Sarah Walker.
He was born on the 20th April, 1897 in Treeton, and married Minnie Cummins at Treeton Methodist Chapel, they lived on Rother Crescent with their three children, Des, Mary and Mona.
Minnie, his first wife died,in March, 1956 and eventually Thomas was re married to Fanny Parrot on 15th June, 1957 at Treeton Methodist Chapel.
He had won a scholarship to Rotherham Grammar School which at that time had only 140 pupils.
He was appointed Sunday School Secretary and Treasurer in 1914 and, after the First World War, followed on in the same appointments which his grandfather had held.
During the first World War he served in France.
A pit employee, he became founder secretary of Treeton Cricket Club and helped raise funds to buy 11 acres of playing fields.
A life long member of Treeton Methodist Chapel, in 1982, at the age of 84, in order to celebrate the Chapel Centenary , he wrote a 40 page booklet detailing the history of the chapel.
He died in February, 1994.
Extract: Local Newspaper 1982
A TRIBUTE FROM A MONUMENT ...
TOM Rossington, of Rother Crescent, at 84, is as much a part of Treeton as the Methodist church of which he writes so movingly. Like it, this razor sharp octogenarian, who has spent a lifetime in the village, stands as a monument to the past and an inspiration to the future. Tom's boyhood was rooted in the faith of his parents and grandparents, recalled today as examples of Christian Integrity.
A Sunday School pupil, he won a scholarship to Rotherham Grammar, then a school of just 140 pupils.
After living for 16 months with the trench warfare horror of the Great War in France he returned to his birthplace.
A pit employee, he became founder secretary of the Treeton Cricket Club and after living through another war, helped raise funds to buy 11 acres of playing fields.
But his pride in that achievement is tainted by sadness.
He says: It is one of my greatest disappointments that the playing field is no longer a parish amenity administered along democratic lines, but is in the control of the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation through its local welfare committee.
In my opinion whenever the democratic administration of affairs is taken away from a community it leads to impoverishment of the community life.
With unspoken reference to the Duke of Norfolk, for years the villages major landowner, he concludes The village suffered from a legacy feudalism, from a control which seems to be impenetrable.
See also 
Thomas Rossington (1843-1912) , was the grandfather of the above Thomas.