Background
He was born at Street Agnes, Cornwall, and emigrated with his wife to South Australia on the David Malcolm, arriving in Adelaide on 23 January 1847, and advertised his availability as a "practical assayer".
He was born at Street Agnes, Cornwall, and emigrated with his wife to South Australia on the David Malcolm, arriving in Adelaide on 23 January 1847, and advertised his availability as a "practical assayer".
In 1849 they settled in Kapunda, where he worked as an assayer. In 1859 he was appointed manager of the Mochatoona copper mine, near Angepena Station in the Flinders Ranges, but left in mid-1860 after criticism by the board, compounded by the difficulty of transporting the ore to Portuguese Augusta, and returned to Kapunda. In 1862 he was elected to the seat of Light in the House of Assembly to fill the casual vacancy opened when F. South. Dutton was appointed Agent-General, and sat from May 1862 to November 1862, when Parliament was dissolved.
He did not seek re-election.
By 1872 he was in Sydney, again advertising himself. In December of that year and was appointed Manager of the Edina Mine in Queensland.
He returned again to Kapunda. He died of a heart attack shortly after assisting in the local mayoral election.
John Rowe (11 August 1848 – ) married Emma Bosher on 24 May 1879, of Goodwood
James Richard Rowe (10 May 1853 – ) married Elizabeth (c 1856 – 3 September 1936), lived at Morgan, then Mile End
Elizabeth Rowe (30 July 1855 – ) married Charles Luscombe Chapple (c 1849 – 23 June 1922) on 29 March 1875, of Hergott
Samuel Rowe (16 February 1857 – ).