[Ancestor] Rowe

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1 M James Rowe ¹

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Rowe

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This family traces its ancestry directly to Castle Pollard, County Westmeath, Ireland, but may be, nevertheless, of English origin, some of the Rowe name having come over with Cromwell or before. The rectory of the parish of Rathgraff, to which Castle Pollard belongs, was burned to the ground over forty years ago [1905], and all the parish records destroyed. In consequence the family line upward and its connections can not be followed far. If the Rowe family of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, is of Irish origin, as is most likely, for families of this name are found in several counties of Ireland, the name came from O'Ruaidh, anglicized Roe and Rowe. The name John is very common in the Rowe branch of the O'Neill sept. John Rowe of Ballybrennan, in County Wexford, married Margaret, daughter of Conall O'Morcho (Murphy), of Tobberlimnich, early in the seventeenth century. Toward the close of the nineteenth century Phillis Rowe, daughter of John Rowe, of Ballycross House, County Wexford, married William Francis Forbes, son of Viscount Forbes, eldest son of the Earl of Granard. There was a seat called Brideswell, belonging to a gentleman named Rowe, on the road from Wexford to Tontern, at the time that John Rowe of Castle Pollard, County Westmeath, emigrated to America and settled at Greencastle. These examples show the esteem in which the Rowes were held in Wexford during a period of three hundred years, but they do not prove that John the emigrant was descended from John of Ballybrennan, or was of the same family as Rowe of Brideswell, or John of Ballycross. The Rowes of Wexford lived at a distance from the Rowes of Westmeath. But the name is found in Ulster, as well as in Leinster. Near the close of the seventeenth century a Miss Rowe married John O'Hare, of Crebilly, County Antrim, and, dying without issue, left an estate to the Rowes. It is probable these Rowes were of the same stock as the others, as well as the family at the head of which was the O'Conner Roe, so called. ¹

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 72.