Rowles Surname

Profile managers: Darryl Rowles [send private message] and One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message]

How to Participate

Please contact the Study's coordinator Darryl Rowles or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Click Here to see a list of Rowles Profiles at are currently included.
You can add a profile to the list by adding
{{One Name Study|name=Rowles}}
to the profile - anywhere below ==Biography== (usually a male Rowles with descendants)

Are you a male Rowles who has taken an autosomal DNA Test? If so see haplogroup estimation below

I would like to post a list of Rowles yDNA haplogroups here,

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Progentors

• Christopher Rowles 1620-1665 Maryland USA He may be the ancestor of most of the Rowles in the United States
• Bartholomew Rowles ca. 1678 Perhaps the progenitor of the Chester County, PA Rowles family
• John Rowles RM-222 1750-1818 is the progenitor of Rowles family of Clearfield County Pennsylvania.
• Thomas Rowles 1751-1818 Maryland Steuben Co. New York
• John Rowles 1750 -1812 Franklin Co. PA Rowles families
• Andrew Rowles 1814-1880 PA. Illinois, Missouri and Texas
• George Rowles 1790 - 1862 Minnesota and Washington Rowles families

List of Profiles with Rowles Name Study

Darryl - My apologies to those who are studying , Rowles families of the British Isles, Africa, New Zealand and Austrailia - I would be happy to add them here.

Rowles Coat of Arms

There is no official Rowles coat of arms. There are may companies willing to sell you an interpretation of one.

Origin

The Rowles surname appears to have originated in the British Isles, perhaps as early as 1066.

Rowles is believed to be a A patronymic surname is a surname originated from the given name of the father or a patrilineal ancestor.

Rowles may be a toponymic (related to a town or village) surname See another theory below.

Rowles does not appear to be an occupational related surname like Smith, Miller, Cooper etc.

1. Onomastics or onomatology the study of the origin, history, and use of surnames tells us that Rowles was derived from Rollo aka Gaange Rolf a Viking who became the first ruler of Normandy, a region of France. He ruled from 911 to 928. The surnam first appeared after 1066 when the Normans conquered England. See Surname Database for additional text. Does genetics support this notion?

2. Are other Rowles families in the world closely related to our Rowles family? This includes those with spelling variations such as Rolls, Rolles and Rowells etc.

3. Genetic research shows that two distinctly different American Rowles families have haplogroups that are Irish in origin rather than Norman/Viking origin that might be expected if descended from Rollo

4. Another theory is that Rowles is a combination of the surnames Rowe and Welles and that it originated in the 1600's in northern England.

Task List

Where do other Rowles members fit on the Phylogenetic Tree?

You can get an estimated haplogoup prediction from MorleyDNA.com Y-SNP Subclade Predictor: extract Y-DNA from an autosomal test
The Morley results may appear as follows: