53.6 Maternal Cousins of Harriet Squire (née Green)

Richard and Harriet Rowland had four children in Saxton. Their children are Harriet's siblings and first cousins.

• 42.2.1 - Mary Rowland (1828-1907)
• See Chapter 42

• 42.2.2 - Catharine Rowland (1831)
• No known children

• 42.2.3 - Richard Rowland (1833-1896)
• Richard Rowland (1858-1938)
• Born in Garforth, Leeds
• 1881: At home in York. Railway clerk.

Locomotive 1621 of the North Eastern Railway, 1893 (my photo)

• Married Caroline Annie Richardson (1864) at St Mary Bishopshill Junior in 1890
• He was a commercial clerk, and they lived at 1 Richardson Street, York

Church of St Mary Bishopshill Junior, York (my photo)

• Children:
• Richard Rowland (1892)
• Frank Rowland (1895)
• Maurice Rowland (1898)
• Ernest Rowland (1900)
• Philip Rowland (1903)
• George Rowland (1903). George died in 1903.

• 1901: 1 Southlands Road. Railway clerk; 1911: Assistant to the railway Passenger Manager

• He would have worked for the London North Eastern Railway (LNER). The present York Railway Station opened in 1877. The Head Office opened in 1906.

Head Office, North Eastern Railway Head Office, York (my photo)

• Henry Rowland (1861)
• 1881: At home in York. Grocer's assistant, age 20
• Married Susan Wilkinson (1862-1944) at St Olave Marygate, York in 1886
• He was a grocer's assistant - then grocer, and they lived at 31 Claremont Terrace, York
• Children:
• Ida Susan Rowland (1887)
• Olive Rowland (1889)
• Cecil Henry Rowland (1895)
• Doris Rowland (1900)
• 1911: 25 Fossgate, York. Grocer. Over the shop, the family of five, by the looks of it. He's in Kelly's at this address in 1901. It's now a cafe called the Fossgate Social. And it's directly opposite the pictured entrance to the medieval Merchant Adventurers' Hall.

Merchant Adventurers' Hall (my photo)

• Frederick Rowland (1862-1930)
• 1881: At home in York. Railway clerk, like his brother Richard
• Married Alice Robinson Lazenby (1861-1935) at St Mary Bishopshill Senior, York in 1885
• They live at 4 Upper Price Street, York; then 16 Bewlay Street
• Children:
• Mildred Rowland (1888)
• Myra Aspinall Rowland (1893)
• Arthur Fred Rowland (1895)
• Leslie Richard Rowland (1898)
• Laura Rowland (1901)
• 1911: Station Master, Darlington Railway Station living at 'Scorton', Darlington, County Durham. 
• The station is close to the terminal of the world's first steam railway - the Stockton and Darlington Railway. This station - 'Bank Top' - opened as the terminal for the Great North of England Railway in 1841, and was rebuilt in 1860, by which time the railway grouping was the North Eastern Railway.

Darlington Railway Station (credit)

• Annie Rowland (1863-1934)
• Stayed at home. With her widowed mother, and sister, in York in 1911.

• Laura Rowland (1865-1895)
• Stayed at home. At home in York in 1891, aged 25. Died five years later.

• Mary Ann F Rowland (1868-1934)
• Stayed at home. With her widowed mother, and sister, in York in 1911.

• Charles M Rowland (1870-1944)
• 1891: At home in York. Commercial clerk
• Died in Cleveland

• Amy Rowland (1872-1924)
• 1901: Draper's assistant - one of many at 10-11 Silver Street, York
• This makes it look like a lodgings for a department store. Browns of York was just across the marketplace (view). It was established in 1891, and is still trading.
• Married George Powell (1873-1943) in York in 1903. No known children.
• George worked at a cocoa manufacturer, and they lived at 44 Cromer Street, half a mile from the nearest entrance to the Rowntree Factory, built in 1890. There was a private railway link to the NER. There are now plans to turn the factory into flats. 

Rowntree Factory, York (Rowntree Society)

• This was three years before Cadbury upset the market with the launch of Dairy Milk, which Joseph Rowntree thought was a fad. Rowntree had funded their chocolate press with the profits from Fruit Pastilles, and invested in their own plantations in West Indies. Rowntree hoped that his cocoa drinks would provide an alternative to alcohol for the working classes; working conditions were good for the time. Emma Robertson looked at the relationship with the plantations in a BBC article here.

Rowntree's Elect Cocoa advertisement, Crich (my photo)

Rowntree's Elect Cocoa
Sample Tin (my collection)

Rowntree's Elect Cocoa 
Tin flipside (my collection)

• Arthur Rowland (1874-1941)
• 1891: At home in York. Butcher's apprentice.
• Married Victoria Crusher (1873)
• He was a butcher (employer), and they lived at 79 Nunnery Lane
• Children:
• William Arthur Rowland (1898)
• Harold Rowland (1900)
• 1911: 30 Fairfax Street. Machinist
• 1939: 3 Lilac Grove. Retired railway fitter. Victoria is present.

• Edith Rowland (1876-1948)
• 1891: At home in York. Scholar, aged 15. No later record found until that of death, unmarried, in York.

• 42.2.4 - Joseph Rowland (1836)
• No known children

More information on these families in Chapter 59.

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