Thomas Rowsell (1772 - 1837)

Born 4 Aug 1772 in London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Frances Hall — married 12 Mar 1816 in Southwark

Descendants

Died 1837 at about age 64 in Lambeth, London, England

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Biography

When Thomas Rowsell was born on 4 August 1772 in London, London, his father, John, was 35 and his mother, Eleanor, was 24.

Thomas was apprenticed by his great uncle Evan Pugh, lawyer, and is recorded as a legal clerk at age 14 in 1786 and was sworn into the King’s bench in 1793. His job is listed as “solicitor” in 1820 at the time of his son Benjamin’s birth when he was 48 years old while he is simply listed as “Gentleman” 7 years later in his son Nicholas’ birth record. He may have pursued other things too; He was admitted freedom of the city among the company of skinners and he was a parish clerk, according to “A Bishop Family History” prepared by Reverend John Bishop. He married Eleonora Catherine Grainger and they had one son together, Thomas Spooner, who worked with his father as a legal clerk, but whose family later moved to Australia.

Thomas then married Frances Hall, who came from a wealthy family of Sussex lawyers. They had three sons; Nicholas Henry Rowsell (1817-1860), Benjamin Rowsell (1820-1886), who was named after his maternal uncle, the lawyer Benjamin Hall, and Edward Pugh Rowsell (1827-1878). Thomas and Frances also had two daughters; Frances Rowsell (b.1819) who was married to Thomas Huggins in her uncle Benjamin’s church in Hadlow Down on 12 Oct 1843, and Angela Mary Rowsell (1823-1871). Thomas died in 1837 at the age of 65.

Sources

• A Bishop Family History by Reverend John Bishop

• https://rowsellfamilyhistory.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/19th-century-lawyers-in-lambeth-samuel-rowsell-and-thomas-rowsell/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Church,_Hadlow_Down