Monday, July 9, 2012

John Rowswell (1608 - 1674)

St. Michael's Church, Shepton Beauchamp

John Rowswell was born in 1608 in Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset.

He was a child of Edward Rowswell (1573-1649) and Jane Manning (1573-1609), both of Shepton Beauchamp.

John married Christabel Davy (1605-1671). The marriage is recorded in the Somerset Registers of Marriage, on November 24, 1630. Together, they had at least 2 children:

Elizabeth Rowswell (1632 - )
John Rowswell (June, 1635 - ) He subsequently Joan (maiden name, unknown).

Christabel died in Shepton Beauchamp in 1671. John (the elder) followed her 3 years later, in 1674.

The above information is taken from undocumented secondary sources online, and has not yet been independently verified with reliable primary records.

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