The Rowe Family

Connie (Rowe) Doherty

Father: John James Rowe

Mother: Sarah Natalie (Tyzack) Rowe

Married: Brian Doherty

Sources:

Parents: geni.com
Marriage: geni.com

Ernest Geoffrey Rowe

Birth: 10 August ____

Father: John James Rowe

Mother: Sarah Natalie (Tyzack) Rowe

Married: Irene May (Mackay) Ford

Irene was born in Dargle, Natal. She married, firstly, Albert Alexander Ford, who died in 1941. Irene died in 1962.

Sources:

Birth: geni.com
Parents: geni.com
Marriage: National Archives of South Africa (NAB MSCE 3164/1962); Irene birth, death from National Archives of South Africa (NAB MSCE 3164/1962); Irene first marriage from National Archives of South Africa (NAB MSCE 32806/1941)

Eunice Gertrude (Rowe) Tyzack

Birth: 14 September 1868, in Cape Town, Cape Colony

Father: John Jones Rowe

Mother: Mary Ann (Bowley) Rowe

Education: Convent, Cape Town, Cape Colony

Married: Joseph George Tyzack on 5 November 1890

Children:

Dorothy Gertrude Tyzack (1891 - 1923)
Perla Rowe Tyzack (1893 - ? )
Eunice Phyllis Tyzack (1895 - 1895)
Phyllis Baden Tyzack (1898 - 1923)
Halton Webber Tyzack (1900 - 1949)
Joyce Beryl Tyzack (1902 - 1936)
Desmond Rowe Tyzack (1904 - 1964)
Eunice Josephine Tyzack (1906 - ? )

Notes:
Women of South Africa p1356 (1913)
Tyzack, (Mrs.) Eunice Gertrude. Wife of J.G. Tyzack, Esquire, Fellow of the Institute of Accountants, Natal; Head of Counting House, Messrs. Harvey Greenacre & Co. Born at Cape Town, Cape Province. Daughter of John Jones Rowe, Esquire, a descendant of an old Pembrokeshire family. Educated Convent, Cape Town. Favourite Hobby, Gardening. Vice-Pres. Ladies’ Cygnus Swimming Club. Member Women’s Union. 7 Children – Dorothy Gertrude; Perla Rowe; Phyllis Baden; Halton Webber; Joyce Beryl; Desmond Rowe; Eunice Josephine. Residence, 652, Musgrave Road, Durban, Natal.

Death: 9 November 1953

Addresses:
1913: 652 Musgrave Road, Durban, Natal (Women of South Africa p1356)

Sources:

Birth: geni.com; place from National Archives of South Africa (NAB MSCE 2761/1953)
Parents: geni.com
Education: Women of South Africa p1356
Marriage: The Natal Who's Who p202 (1906)
Death: geni.com

John Jones Rowe

Birth: 27 December 1842 in Pembrokeshire, Wales

Married: Mary Ann Bowley on 18 February 1866, in Cape Town, Cape Colony

Mary was born on 20 November 1843 in Kings Norton district, Staffordshire, England, and baptised on 21 January 1844 in North Harborne, Staffordshire, the daughter of Benjamin Bowley and Mary Ann Blewitt. She died on 7 June 1929.

Children:

Eunice Gertrude Rowe (1868 - 1953)
John Jones Rowe (1872 - 1943)
Thomas Rowe
William Jones Rowe
Anna Rowe
Winnie Rowe

Occupation: Ironmonger. In 1908 John applied for a patent for an "Improved dry pulverizing ore mill for gold quartz and other ores", although this application was withdrawn.

Death: 30 April 1925 in Durban, Natal, South Africa

Addresses:
1908: Tower House, Innes Road, Durban, Natal (The Australian official journal of patents 15 September 1908 p601)

Sources:

Birth: Miles - Bowley Family Tree
Marriage: Miles - Bowley Family Tree; Mary Ann birth from England Birth Index (4Q1843 Kings Norton vol 18 p398) with exact date from Miles - Bowley Family Tree; Mary Ann baptism from England Births and Christenings batch I01086-1; Mary Ann parents from England Births and Christenings batch I01086-1 with mother's surname from England Marriage Index (4Q1838 Dudley vol 18 p402)
Occupation: The Australian official journal of patents 15 September 1908 p601
Death: National Archives of South Africa (NAB MSCE 10283/1925); exact date from Miles - Bowley Family Tree

John Jones Rowe

Birth: 15 December 1872

Father: John Jones Rowe

Mother: Mary Ann (Bowley) Rowe

Married: Sarah Natalie Tyzack

Children:

Connie Rowe
John Lofflin Rowe ( ? - 1939)
Kathleen Rene Rowe ( ? - 1974)
Ernest Geoffrey Rowe
Phyllis Ethel Rowe (1910 - 1956)

Occupation: Railway Engineer. In 1921 John was awarded a patent for a flanged wheel for railways. He is listed as being of Durban, Natal, South Africa.

Headstone of John Jones Rowe and Sarah Natalie (Tyzack) Rowe in West Street cemetery, Durban, Natal, South Africa

photo by Jaq Benadie at eGGSA

Death: August 1943

Buried: West Street cemetery, Durban, Natal, South Africa

Addresses:
1920: 39 South Ridge Road, Durban, Natal (United States Patent Office 1 March 1921)

Sources:

Birth: geni.com
Parents: geni.com
Marriage: National Archives of South Africa (NAB MHG 6995/62)
Notes: United States Patent Office 1 March 1921; GB Patent 141686 - An improved track wheel
Death: geni.com
Burial: Headstone in West Street cemetery, Durban, Natal

John Lofflin Rowe

Father: John James Rowe

Mother: Sarah Natalie (Tyzack) Rowe

Married: Zoë Alys Maunsell in 1917

Zoë was born in 1896, in Mount Frere, Griqualand East, Cape Colony, the daughter of Harry Butson Maunsell, of Nigel, Transvaal, and Miriam James Gilson. She was a nurse. Zoë died in 1973, in Durban, Natal, South Africa.
Addresses:
1941: Brakpan, Transvaal, South Africa (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
1942: Brakpan, Transvaal, South Africa (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

Occupation: Geologist

Notes: John served in the Royal Flying Corps in Word War I. He was commissioned a temporary second lieutenant on 13 August 1917 (London Gazette 11 September 1917 p9425).

John's name is sometimes spelled "John Lofflyn Rowe".

Death: 4 October 1939

Sources:

Parents: geni.com
Marriage: National Archives of South Africa (NAB MSCE 4797/1973); date from thepeerage.com citing Burke's Irish Family Records p812 (1976); Zoë birth from myheritage.com (Troon) with place from National Archives of South Africa (NAB MSCE 4797/1973); Zoë parents from Landed Gentry of Ireland pxxx (Burke, 1899); Zoë occupation from myheritage.com (Troon); Zoë death from National Archives of South Africa (NAB MSCE 4797/1973) with place from myheritage.com (Troon)
Occupation: myheritage.com (Troon)
Death: National Archives of South Africa (TAB MHG 3673/39); exact date from myheritage.com (Troon)

Kathleen Rene (Rowe) Craven

Father: John James Rowe

Mother: Sarah Natalie (Tyzack) Rowe

Married: John Howgate Craven

John died in 1959.

Headstone of Kathleen Rene Craven in West Street cemetery, Durban, Natal, South Africa

photo by Jaq Benadie at eGGSA

Death: 25 June 1974

Buried: West Street cemetery, Durban, Natal, South Africa

Sources:

Parents: geni.com
Marriage: National Archives of South Africa (TAB MHG 1068/59); John death from National Archives of South Africa (TAB MHG 1068/59)
Death: National Archives of South Africa (TAB MHG 7766/74); exact date from headstone in West Street cemetery, Durban, Natal
Burial: Headstone in West Street cemetery, Durban, Natal

Phyllis Ethel (Rowe) Smeaton

Birth: 12 December 1910

Father: John James Rowe

Mother: Sarah Natalie (Tyzack) Rowe

Married: John Richard Smeaton

Known as "Jack". John married, secondly, Rene (Wallace, Scott) Campbell. He died in 1960.

Death: 1956

Sources:

Birth: Peta-Ann Small
Parents: geni.com
Marriage: National Archives of South Africa (TAB MSCE 5053/60); John second marriage, death from National Archives of South Africa (TAB MSCE 5053/60)
Death: National Archives of South Africa (TAB MHG 723/57)

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