REPORT OF FAMILY REPRESENTATIVES The family representative, Mary Ann Rowley Jones has prepared a great many family group sheets for filing in the archives, working on them diligently and earnestly since 1936. At that time the sheets went through the archives and temple as, Ralph Nephi Rowley, “Heir”. A few years ago the system was […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerMESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT It’s wonderful to be able at this time to send out greetings to all the Rowley clan, and to wish you all the best possible success in whatever you undertake to do and that it will be along the lines that will bring you the most amount of joy and real […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerHISTORY OF RALPH NEPHI ROWLEY (Cont) Father, Ralph Nephi, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was set apart to go to Glasgow, Scotland. There he obtained a job in a pottery. After work he would preach on the streets with the other Elders. It was while engaged in this preaching, after […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerHISTORY OF RALPH NEPHI ROWLEY (Cont.) They (Mary Ann Thompson and Ralph Nephi, John Thompson, Hugh Thompson and Ephraim George Rowley) joined and made the journey with the first company of the Perpetual Emigration Fund Company which started across the plains June 1, 1852 under the command of Abraham Owen Smoot, Captain and Chris Layton, […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerHISTORY OF RALPH NEPHI ROWLEY, WRITTEN BY HIS SON, GEORGE ARTHUR ROWLEY My father, Ralph Nephi Rowley, was born April 1, 1824, at Handley, North Staffordshire, England. My mother Mary Ann Thompson Rowley was born on July 14, 1925 at Glasgow, Scotland. Father, Ralph, and Mother, Mary Ann, were married at Glasgow, Scotland. Father, Ralph, […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerHISTORY SUBMITTED FOR PRINTING IN THE FIRST ROWLEY FAMILY PAPER BY HISTORIAN, Luella Jones Downard In this the charter paper we feel that the first history given should be the work of our first history writer, Uncle George Arthur Rowley. To print the story just as Uncle George wrote it is the highest tribute we […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerEDITORIAL We feel proud and thankful of our family name and heritage; it is a name that has come down to us through our fathers, men who were good, and tried in their way to do what was right. Though human and capable of error, they have left us a heritage for which we should […]
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