Posts Tagged ‘Rowley’
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Keepsake Photographs
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Jane Marion Watrous was born in 1844 to William Watrous and Harriet Janet Rose. She was the oldest of ten children born to her parents. Her father William and our ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous were both half-brothers and first cousins. Jane’s father’s parents were Timothy Watrous and Mabel Rowley. Our ancestors were Timothy Watrous and […]
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In the early days of our country, most of the population was in New England. The people of these states, including Connecticut were faithful record keepers. Their handwritten records have been transcribed and preserved from many sources and repositories. These records give to us the family of ancestor Jesse Rowley and his wife Bathsheba. They […]
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Jesse Rowley was born in Connecticut to Elnathan Rowley and Lydia Wells. He was the eighth child born to his parents. The seventh child died at birth and had been named Jesse. When our ancestor was born, his parents used the same name for him. About 1774, Jesse and Bathsheba married. They became the parents […]
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Mabel Rowley was born in Connecticut in 1787 to Jesse Rowley and his wife Bathsheba. She was the youngest of five children. We know nothing of her childhood. Sometime before 1807, when her first son was born, she married Timothy Watrous. Their first son, William, was born in 1807 in Connecticut. Their second son Samuel […]
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Mary Rowley is our direct ancestor. She was the fifth child of six born to her parents Jesse Rowley and Bathsheba. Nothing is known about Mary’s childhood except that her father took his own life in 1810 and her younger sister Mabel died sometime before 1816. In about 1816, Mary Rowley married her deceased sister […]
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Timothy Watrous is the oldest known ancestor in our Watrous line. He was born about 1785 in Connecticut and died in 1818 in Muskingum County, Ohio. He migrated to Ohio in the company of many others. They all bought land or received “bounty lands” for their service in The American Revolution. It appears that ancestor […]
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We came to know Abraham Maple during our quest to find the parentage of our ancestor Timothy Watrous. Timothy Watrous had two sons from his marriage to Mabel Rowley. They were Samuel and William. Timothy had one son from his marriage to Mabel’s sister Mary Rowley. He was our direct ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous. Louisa […]
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Rufus Richardson was born in Vermont to Jesse Richardson and Anna Jones. He was the youngest child of four born to his parents. He migrated with his family from Vermont to Connecticut to Ohio along with many others, including our direct ancestor Timothy Watrous and his family. They settled in Muskingum County, in Monroe Township […]
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Jerome Timothy Watrous was born to Timothy Watrous and Mary Rowley in what would become Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. His father Timothy, along with many others, migrated from various places but primarily from Connecticut to Ohio. There, Timothy Watrous bought a large piece of land. Just a few months short of Jerome’s birth, his father […]