His medical career included M.D. St.Andrews University, Scotland; first registered in 1862; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons England 1862; Matriculated Co. Cork, Ireland; Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy Hospitals Plymouth and Malta; Principal Medical Official Pacific S.N.Co., Surgical Superintendent British Hospital and Consular Medical Officer, Callao Peru; and Medical Inspector Board of Trade.
After resigning from the Royal Navy, he received a post as the Consular Physician at Callao, Peru, the port city for Lima where he met and married Emmeline Russell Dartnell circa 1868. They had several children there, before he contracted tuberculosis and movied his family to Plymouth, Devon, England
He died aged 43 in 1882 at Plymouth, Devon, England.
Children of Thomas Alexander Roe & Emmeline Russell Dartnell
Robert Henry Peter F Roe b. c. 1866 d. 1869
Louise Roe b. 1869
Grace Emily Roe b. 1870
Arthur Edward Roe b. 1871
Thomas O'Niell Roe b. 1872 d. 27 Jun 1913
Richard Dartnell Tennant Roe b.1874
Sydney Russell Roe b. 1875 d. 1898
Alexander Phillips Roe b. 1877 d. c 1941 (at Lima, Peru)
Emmeline Maud Roe b. 1878 d. 1886
Sources
Family Tree courtesy of Jane Herasimenko
"United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC32-8DL : 10 December 2017), Thomas Roe, ; From "Merchant Navy Seamen1835-1941," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing BT 112-116, 119-120, series BT116, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
Gro Consular Marriages (1849-1965)
First name(s) Thomas Alexander
Last name Roe
Sex Male
Marriage year 1866-70
Spouse Emmeline Russell Dartnell
Marriage Place Lima
Country Peru
Archive reference MCON
Volume 4
Page 699
Line number 32
freeBMD Deaths JunQ 1882 Plymouth 5b 151 ROE Thomas Alexander Age 43.
Census
1881 census of England, Wales & Scotland 17, Portland Villa, Plymouth, Devon, England
First Name
Last Name
Relationship
Marital Status
Gender
Age
Occupation
Birth Place
Thomas A
Roe
Head
Married
Male
42
M.D Not Practising M.R.C.S. England
Ireland
Emmeline R
Roe
Wife
Married
Female
35
Housewife
Peru, British Subject
Louisa [sic]
Roe
Daughter
Female
12
Scholar
Peru, British Subject
Grace E
Roe
Daughter
Female
11
Scholar
Peru, British Subject
Arthur E
Roe
Son
Male
9
Scholar
Stonehouse, Devon, England
T. O'Neill
Roe
Son
Male
8
Scholar
Peru, British Subject
Richard D
Roe
Son
Male
7
Scholar
Stonehouse, Devon, England
Sydney R
Roe
Son
Male
5
Scholar
Plymouth, Devon, England
Alexander P
Roe
Son
Male
3
Scholar
Totnes, Devon, England
Maud E
Roe
Daughter
Female
2
Totnes, Devon, England
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