John Rowles, 1820 Settler

1790 - 1866  (76 years)

• Name	John Rowles
  Suffix	1820 Settler
  Birth	1790	Oxfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  1820 Lineage	Yes
  Settler	3 Dec 1819	Gravesend, Kent, England   [1]
  	Bailie's party on the Chapman
  Settler ID	544
  Death	1866  [2]
  Person ID	I132769	master
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2021

  
  

  Family	Sarah Wright, 1820 Settler,   b. 1792
  Children	+ 1. Amelia Rowles, 1820 Settler,   b. 21 Jul 1817, Hackney, London, England   2. John Rowles, 1820 Settler,   b. 1819
  Family ID	F47249	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2016

  
  

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• Notes

  He was born in Oxfordshire, and worked for a London firm of brokers for 15 years. He was unemployed when he applied to emigrate from 20 Norfolk Street, Commercial Road, London. He joined Ford's subdivision of Bailie's party, which later came under the leadership of T.Flanegan. His house and crops were badly damaged by the floods of October 1823. He was granted a share of the party's location. From 1832 he was employed by William Holder to run a trading station at Cantanee in Kaffraria, but on the eve of the 1834 war he and his family were terrorised by hostile Xhosa and forced to abandon their property and flee to the colony. Both he and his wife, Mrs Sarah Rowles, died at the home of their daughter Mrs Skea in Worcester Street, Grahamstown in 1866. Their elder daughter Amelia married J.T.Scriven; their son John, who was fluent in Xhosa from childhood, be¬came a government interpreter. PRO CO 48/45 no.460, 23.7.1819; 1/AY 8/71, petition of T.Flanegan, 1.2.1821; CO 223 no.26,25.3.1824; 1/AY 12/1, storm loans, 18.12.1824; CO 8541, Hayward's notes; LG 35, war damage claim, 1835; Blue book, Further Despatches Relative to the Last Caffre War, pp.212-3; GTJ 5.1.1866, 28.9.1866; St George's GT marriage registers; Directory 1845.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6] M D Nash, "The Settler Handbook", (Chameleon Press ISBN 0 620 10940 8). [S439] Nash, MD, "Bailie's Party of 1820 Settlers", (ISBN 0 86961 140 2).