Captain Thomas Rowley
(.1747......1806..)
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New South Wales Corps. ( Rum Corps. ) "Renamed 102nd
Regiment
Born : 1 December 1747
Where Born : Cornwall England
Occupation : Soldier /
Date Arrived : 17 July 1791
Ship Arrived on : "Pitt
"
Rank on Discharge : Captain
Date of Enlistment : 5 June 1789
Where Enlisted : England
Date of Discharge : 12 November 1801
Where Discharged : Sydney
Died : 24 May 1806
Where Died /
Buried : 25 May 1806
Buried at Kingston Newtown, then moved to Waverley C/D
Parents Names : George Rowley
(b.....d.) & Elizabeth Friend (b.......d)
Spouse's Name : Elizabeth
Selwyn
Born : 1775
Where Born : Cherington Gloucestershire England
Date Arrived : 1792
Ship Arrived on :
" Pitt "
Died : 22 June 1843
Where Died /
Buried : Briggs
Vault Waverly Sydney
Date Married :
Where Married :
Spouse's Parents :
Thomas Selyn (b.....d.) & Mary King
(.b......d.)
- Descendants :
Some information supplied by
Wendy crk@shoalhaven.net.au
- Area Settled :
- Sydney
- Children :
- 1 . Isabella Rowley (b 19 / 11/1792 Sydney Cove
...d.25 / 10/1808) m 3 May 1807 St Phillips Sydney
William Ellison (b......d.)
- 2 . Thomas Rowley (b.12 / 8 /1794 Sydney Cove .d
.11 /11/1862 Minto ) m 27 /2 1818 Catherine Clarkson
(b.1797 Kingsbury England ...d.19 /7/1858 . Minto )
- 3 . John Rowley (b.20/11/1797 Sydney Cove
....d.28 /6/1873 Scone) m 4/11/1819 Sarah Pear
(b.1801....d.25 /4/1880)
- 4 . Mary Rowley (b.18 / 3/1801 Newtown
Sydney.......d.4/4/1869.Nanima.) m 10/3/1817 Parramatta
John Lucas. (b.21/12/1796.Norfolk Island ......d.
5/6/1875 Murrumbateman )
- 5 . Eliza Rowley (b.25/4/1804 Kingston Sydney
........d.27/9/1882 Kingston Sydney m 28/8/1826
Parramatta Henry Sparrow Briggs (b.1796 Suffolk England
d.12/10/1866 Kingston )
- 6 . Henry Rowley(b.1806 Sydney ....d.17/12/1873
Gulgong ) m Liverpool Mary Anne Murphy
(b.1817......d.20/4/1851 Camperdown Sydney )
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History
& Achievements :
- Roll of Honour for the 1914
-18 war in the biographical details for Rupert Clark
Bull. "He was great, great grandson of
Captain Thomas Rowley and quartermaster? Bull both of the
102 regiment who came to Sydney in 1792 and is 4th
generation of Australians". The information was
given by his father Henry Thomas Rowley
Bull. who married Sara Clark a daughter of
Alexander Clark and Margaret Hutchison in Carcoar NSW.
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- Reference R.S.T & R.M
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-Inventory of
Burials 1792-1820 City of Sydney
Historical Program
- Researched
Cathy Dunn
C/D
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- References
- Military records ,Pay rolls, Pay Musters, Cemetery Records, Church
Records & General Muster Records, Mitchell Library ,Sydney Australia
- The information is intended for
short Historical value only,
- E- mail address
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(QLD) Australia