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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13px;">This request for information about a bell ringer came from
an internet forum. I would be most grateful if the Bell Historians might be
able to help this person who<span style="word-spacing:normal;line-height:1.25;"> has been searching for the origins of her ancestor for a
number of years. She discovered he was a bell ringer who rang at Great Baddow
in Essex, where he settled. Clutching at straws she is looking for any snippet
of information which might pin him down to any date and place during his
lifetime; hint at a place of birth; or prove/disprove that he really was in
the Army.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">The name ‘James Rowland’ is quite common throughout the UK
but she is sure the bell ringer at Great Baddow is him. He also had a son and
grandson who rang. He must have been reasonably accomplished to have rung the
tenor to the peals we have found. She wonders where he might have learned to
ring.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u style="font-size:small;">James Rowland (c 1765 – 1846)</u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">Reported (son’s written record) to have been in the Army and
fought in the Napoleonic Wars being injured in the hip at the Battle of
Salamanca in 1812. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">Reportedly enlisted in the Army at Newtown, Montgomeryshire
in 1787</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">Was a tailor by trade.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">Place of birth unknown. Date of birth c 1763 to 1771
(conflicting information)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">Married at Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire 1795</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">First child baptised at Stamford, Lincolnshire 1797</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">Subsequent children baptised at Great Baddow, Essex between
1803 and 1827</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">First wife died Great Baddow 1813 and he re-married in Great
Baddow 1815</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">1841 census. In Great Baddow, aged ‘70’, not born in Essex.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">James Rowland died in Great Baddow 17 Jul 1846, aged ‘83’</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><u style="font-size:small;">Known peals in which James Rowland rang.</u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">14 Dec 1815; Writtle; 6000 Bob Major; rang tenor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">20 Mar 1817; Writtle; 5040 Bob Major; rang tenor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;">7 Mar 1819; Great Baddow; 10,080 Bob Major; rang tenor. “The
Quarter Peal”</span></p><p><span style="font-size:small;">
<span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">31 May 1819; Writtle; 5040
Bob Major; rang tenor</span><br class="yui-cursor"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:small;"><br class="yui-cursor"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:small;">Ron East</span></p>
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