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Tanya
and Brett's
... Great-Great-Great-Grand-Parents (Rowe)
John
Rowe
and Elizabeth Rowe (nee Penberthy)
.
Their
eldest child
... John Henry Rowe
born
at Ludgvan England on 28th September 1846
.
John and Elizabeth's
first-born, John Henry, departed for Australia from Plymouth on
30th September 1865
on the ship "The Gosforth" ... the ship arrived in Port
Adelaide on 25th December 1865
Soon after arriving
in Adelaide, he departed for the frontier mining town of Moonta
South Australia
Copper had been discovered there in 1861 by Paddy Ryan, near a
wombat's burrow
Upon seeing the Moonta
Mines for the first time, John no doubt felt homesick for Cornwall
The 'attle' heaps, the horse whims, the ore neatly stacked at
the surface and the cottages would have reminded him of home
The community was a
sizeable one, with upwards of three hundred cottages
and some large houses distributed haphazardly around numerous
shafts
John Henry sent numerous
letters to his family in Cornwall, extolling the virtues of Australia
When her husband died in 1872, Elizabeth decided to take advantage
of the free immigration scheme and join her eldest son in Australia
Her little daughter, Diana, had also died in early 1873 and this
may have been another deciding factor
In mid-April of 1873,
Elizabeth said farewell to her family and departed for the port
of Plymouth
No doubt, the last she would have seen of her native Cornwall
would have been St Michael's Mount
Travelling with her
to Australia were her daughters ... Elizabeth Jane Rowe (eighteen)
and Christiana Penberthy Rowe (sixteen)
and her sons ... Isaac Penberthy Rowe (along with his wife Charity
Carbis Rowe and their daughter two year old Elizabeth)
and Richard Nicholas Rowe (nine) and William James Rowe (eight
and a cripple) and Stephen Thomas Rowe (three)
This extended family
of nine sailed on the "City of Adelaide"
and reached Port Adelaide on 3rd July 1873, after being at sea
for just over nine weeks
Upon arriving in Adelaide,
the group immediately proceeded to Moonta to join John Henry
and
more detail on this family is available by
CLICKING
HERE
and scrolling down the page to Section #09
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The
marriage of John Henry Rowe and Elizabeth Ann Eddy
Celebrated
on 24th May 1868
All
Saints Church ... Moonta ... South Australia
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All
Saints Church
Here is the Church
and Parish Hall in 1910 ...
... and how it looks
today ... and you can just see part of the Parish Hall
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John
and Elizabeth and their Family
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