John ROWAN c.1841-1920 & Annie Louisa WILLIAMS c.1849-1892
Storekeeper of Casterton, 1882
John ROWAN b. c1841, Co Tipperary, Ireland was married in 1866 to Annie Louisa WILLIAMS, b. c1849, daughter of Charles WILLIAMS and Mary BANCROFT.
John ROWAN appears to be the John ROWAN, storekeeper, in the 1882 Commercial Sector Plan of Henty Street, Casterton.
John ROWAN and family were in Melbourne before coming to Casterton in the late 1870s. After 1882 they moved to Mt Gambier in South Australia before John's wife Annie died in Warrnambool in 1892.
John ROWAN died in Melbourne in 1920 and was buried in Warrnambool with his wife Annie.
John ROWAN & Annie Louisa WILLIAMS had the following known family:
- Lillian Hanorah ROWAN b. 1867, Emerald Hill, Vic
- Joseph Hamilton ROWAN b. 1869, Carlton, Vic, d. 1869
- William ROWAN b. 1870, Hawthorn, Vic, d. 1870
- John Percy ROWAN b. 1871, Boroondara, Vic
- James Archibald ROWAN b. 1873, Boroondara, Vic
- Robert Emmet ROWAN b. 1874, Boroondara, Vic, d. 1875
- Marie Laura Kathleen ROWAN b. 1875, Hawthorn, Vic
- Christopher Paul ROWAN b. 1877, Hawthorn, Vic
- Charles Hamilton ROWAN b. 1879, Casterton, Vic
- Annie Isabel ROWAN b. 1880, Casterton, Vic
- Jerne Mabel Josephine ROWAN b. 1881, d. 1882, Mt Gambier, SA
- Eileen Camila Jane ROWAN b. 1884, Mt Gambier, SA
- Leo Parnell ROWAN b. 1889, d. 1889, Mt Gambier, SA
