Lester
Harold
Rowat
Born in Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada
Ancestors 
Son of George Rowat
and Annie McGregor (Strath) Rowat
Brother of
Mildred Alice Rowat, William James Earle Rowat, Robert Alexander Rowat, Walford Douglas Rowat, George Clarence Rowat and Mabel Isabell Rowat
Husband of
Laura Euphemia (Graham) Rowat
— married
30 Jun 1914 in Toronto, Ontario Canada
Descendants 
Father of
Campbell Lester Joseph (Rowat) Rowatt, Barbara Ruth Alberta (Rowat) Brown, [private son (1920s - 2000s)], Alice (Rowat) White, Dave Rowat, [private daughter (1920s - unknown)], [private daughter (1920s - unknown)], [private daughter (1920s - unknown)], Graham Rowat, Marie (Rowat) Davis and [private son (1930s - unknown)]
Died
at age 58
in Havelock, Ontario, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Oct 2014
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Biography
Engineer with Canadian Pacific Railway and veteran of WW 1.
Sources
- "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:278M-Q6Q : 12 March 2018), George Rowat in entry for Lester Harold Rowat and Laura Euphenia Graham, 30 Jun 1914; citing registration , Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,021,808.
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David White
Lester served in WW1 with the Canadian military. He was in a special unit of railway employees. He was an engineer with the CPR.
posted 8 Aug 2016 by David White
[thank David]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lester by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lester:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lester by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lester:
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~25.00%
50.00%
David White 
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch NW9545682 [compare], FTDNA kit #IN54773
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Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch NW9545682 [compare]
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~0.78%
Debbie (Martin) Lamb :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A319222 [compare], Ancestry member tigerlily_42
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