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This Rowberry family goes back to 1748/1749 to Thornbury,
Herefordshire, England
where the first known Rowberry was born. Who his parents
are, we aren’t sure, but this story will tell about his descendants as we know them today.
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Bishop John Rowberry
1823 - 1884 |
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John Rowberry was born about 1748/1749 in
Thornbury, Herefordshire England. He married 16 year old Ann
Owens on the 24th of May 1775 in Kyre, Worcestershire, England. John
died at age 73 in January 1822 at Collington, Herefordshire England
and Ann died at age 54 in Collington.
John and Ann had 4
children:
1) William born abt 1776 Collington, Herefordshire
d. 1830
2) Mary born abt 1779
3) Sarah born May 6, 1781 Kyre,
Herefordshire
4) John born August 1785 Collington, Herefordshire
d. August 26, 1844 Nauvoo, IL
When he was 31 years old John Rowberry, the 4th child of John and Ann Rowberry married Mary Parry daughter of Richard Parry. They married in
Bishops Frome, Herefordshire, England on May 1st, 1817. Mary was 22 years old.
Just 8 1/2 months later their first child was born, Mary on the 19th of
January 1818. John and Mary lived in Bishops Frome,
Herefordshire for the next 17 years from 1818 to 1835 where 5 more children
were born to them:
John and Mary had 6
children:
1) Mary born January 19, 1818 Bishops Frome,
Herefordshire d. July 15, 1840 Wellsville, UT. Mary married William Jenkins, on July 1st, 1840, Worcester St John Bedwardine, Worcestershire, England.
2) Ann born April 16, 1820 Bishops Frome, Herefordshire
3) John born August 16, 1823 Bishops Frome, Herefordshire
d. April 4, 1844 Tooele, UT
4) William born October 8, 1827 Bishops Frome,
Herefordshire
5) Thomas born December 2, 1830 Bishops Frome,
Herefordshire d. Sept 12, 1896 Rexburg, ID Thomas married Harriet Barlow Hall, May 30th, 1856, St. Louis, MO
6) Edward born abt 1835 d. July 11,
1869
The Rowberry family were members of the United
Brethern Church in England when they heard the gospel by Elder
Wilford Woodruff in 1840. A note in President Wilford
Woodruff's journal shows that he baptized John on the 21st of June
1840, at Fromes Hill, Herefordshire, England. Not long after, Mary and her husband William Jenkins
emigrated to America on the Isaac Newton, a 595 ton, full rigged
sailing ship. The Isaac Newton was the first vessel to bring the Saints to New
Orleans. The emigrant company of which they were
members arrived in New Orleans on the 21st of
December 1840.
Not much is known about John and Mary except that
they left England with the rest of their family sometime after June 1841 and joined the other Mormons in
Nauvoo, Illinois. Mary died August 6, 1844 and just 20 days
later John died at the age of 59, on August 26 in Nauvoo,
Illinois. These were hard times at the Mormon settlement, Joseph Smith
and his brother Hyrum were killed by an angry mob on June 27, 1844,
so close to the time John and Mary died, was the
cause of their deaths due to natural causes, sickness or
something else?
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My many Thanks to Polly Rubery for all her help in my research on the Rowberry family,
I could have never done this with out all her help and encouragement.
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