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Thomas Rowley


 

Thomas Rowley (c1748-1806) was a soldier and landholder in the convict settlement of New South Wales.

References

  • Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 2.
  • Hazzard, Margaret, Punishment Short of Death: a history of the penal settlement at Norfolk Island, Melbourne, Hyland, 1984.
  • Thomas Rowley has been enthusiastically researched by Genealogists, and the following page gives access or reference to this work: http://home.pacific.net.au/~merowley/ . This includes discussion of Rowley's origin in England, his farm in what is now the Sydney suburb of Burwood, his part in establishing Merino sheep in Australia, his sponsorship of the convict Simeon Lord, as well as extensive information about his descendants.

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