Notes:

Note 1: Boswell tells us, that Rose was a first cousin of Hugh Rose (1705-1772), 17th of Kilravock. Unfortunately, their common grandfather had at least 9 children, making the identification initially seem difficult. However, if we make an educated guess, that only the male descendants continued the family name, possible candidates for Rose's parents are James Rose of Brea (1699-1762) and his wife Margaret Rose, dau of James Rose of Broadley. The 15th of Kilravock had 2 other sons, but both of them seems to have been born after 1730, making it highly improbable that they could have a grown up son in Utrecht in 1763. Also, in a note in Boswell: The Early Years, Pottle mentions that his colleague Prof. Robert Warnock has found evidence that Rose was in fact James Rose, son of James and Margaret mentioned above. The evidence for this identification, according to Pottle, is to be published in the relevant research edition of the Yale papers, which, unfortunately, doesn't seem to appear anytime soon.

Note 2: TEY, p. 492