Dear Joanne, I hope you don't already have all this. I shall condense some of the information contained in Richard Rose's book "Pembroke People", which I think you need to see..perhaps you could arrange an inter-library loan. Under Shoemakers, page 400: George Rowlands married Mary Wogan at St. Michael's on 13/11/1763. Issue: Alice, Anne bapt. 22/2/1766,died 14/12/1844, George bapt. St. Michael's 19/2/1769 Shoemaker, John bapt. 19/7/1781, Mary the wife of ...............Thomson, Elizabeth. George buried St. Michael's 20/7/1800 and Mary Rowlands buried 30/5/1805. George Rowlands m. (i) Jane........(ii) Jane Davies, widow, St. Michael's. P & C. 1830, 1835.....also a Publican, see The Pelican. Children: Mary bapt. St. Michael's 17/4/1796, John 28/5/1798 (who predeceased his father), George bapt. PSM 25/7/1800, (see Publicans), William bapt. PMI 16/11/1803 (see Painters), Laurence 17/10/1804 (Shoemaker 1841...died of apoplexy in the Workhouse 13/11/1859), Ann 16/01/1807, Catherine, Mary and Jane. Then follows a great deal of information incl. the fact that the first Jane, East Back, died and was buried at St. Michael's 21/4/1825, aged 60. George later remarried to Jane Davies at St. Michael's 17/2/1827..witnesses were Sophia Davies and George Froyne. George's will, made in 1847, is then set out. I haven't followed up the other references. Catherine is mentioned as the wife of William Thomas, Ann is/was married to .......Moyard of the City of Bath (it looks like she must have died before that time), Mary is the widow of Jacob Smart also of Bath, and Jane Rowlands is the widow of his deceased son John. His sons George, William and Laurence are also mentioned, plus details of his death etc. In other places in the book I noted that a Mary Rowlands married at PMI in 1803, a Martha Rowlands, East End was buried at PMI 23/1/1826 aged 90 and a William Rowlands, Pembroke, buried at PMI 20/3/1828 aged 3. A further item then follows for John Rowlands who may be the son mentioned above. All this does not, of course, give you Catherine's connection to Haverfordwest ...she may have been working there. The Rowlands I am personally interested in are from earlier times and the northern parts of Pembrokeshire. Bettye Kirkwood, Australia. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joanne Thomas" <journeymouse@yahoo.co.uk> To: <WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 8:28 AM Subject: [WLS-PEM] ROWLANDS of Pembroke and Haverfordwest [crossposting] > Hi again, > > Third and final post of the day, I promise! > > The William THOMAS mentioned in the previous posts married Catherine > ROWLANDS in Haverfordwest on 9th April 1837. On the register, William > is from Lamphey and Catherine is of the parish (of St Thomas', > Haverfordwest). However, Catherine was born, and presumably raised, in > Pembroke (St Michael's). She was the daughter of George ROWLANDS, a > shoemaker and publican in Pembroke. George was the son of another > George ROWLANDS who married Mary WOGAN in 1763 at Pembroke St > Michael's. > > So (finally) the questions: > Is anyone researching the ROWLANDS families in Pembroke and > Haverfordwest? > Any suggestions as to what I should be looking at for Catherine's > connection to Haverfordwest? > > Ta, > Jo <-- going back to lurking after this one, honest! > > ===== > Joanne Thomas > journeymouse@yahoo.co.uk > http://www.geocities.com/journeymouse/ > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > > ==== WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE Mailing List ==== > Pembrokeshire Archives > email claire.orr@pembrokeshire.gov.uk >