John Rowsell (1748 - 1775)





St. Michael's Church, Creech St. Michael


John Rowsell was born in West Monkton, Somerset, in 1748.

He was the son of Richard Rowsell (1720-1772) and Elizabeth Cure (1729-1770), also of West Monkton.

John married Hannah Hurcott (1750 - ) at St. Michael's Church in Creech St. Michael, Somerset on December 3, 1771.

They had 2 daughters, at Smokey Farm, Staplegrove:

Sarah Rowsell (Sep 1772 - Nov 1856)
Betty Rowsell (Oct 1774 - Feb 1780)

John is believed to have passed away at Smokey Farm, Staplegrove in May of 1775. Hannah appears to have subsequently remarried, to William Harris (1750 - ), later that year. She passed away 5 years later, in 1775, in Biddesham, Somerset.

Daughter Sarah subsequently married Robert Hill in 1791, at Creech St. Michael, with whom she had 2 children: John Hill (Dec 1795 - ) and Elizabeth Hill (Feb 1799 - ). Both were born at at Smokey Farm, Staplegrove.  The deaths of both Sarah and Betty are subsequently recorded at Taunton, St. James parish.