˪ 5.7 Frank Rowland was born in Dongara, on Sunday, May 30th, 1880 (WA Birth Reg. 21195/1880) to parents Michael and Rebecca Rowland. This was two years after his mother, father and children had returned to the Irwin area, after living in Perth. His father, Michael Rowland was listed in 1879, as a 'Mail Contractor, Farmer and Butcher'. The family lived in a two-story house on the bank of the Irwin River.
Frank's birth was prior to the Western Australian Gold Rush, and the total European population of the colony had just passed 29,000. Frank was born the same year that the notorious bush ranger, Ned Kelly, was arrested and hanged in Victoria.
Frank was eleven years old when his older brother, George Rowland, [5.6] died, in the Irwin area, during 1891.
Frank spent the first nineteen years of his life near Irwin and Dongara, then followed one year at Moora, and two years at the Canning Jarrah Saw Mills, in the Darling Ranges.
Frank's birth was prior to the Western Australian Gold Rush, and the total European population of the colony had just passed 29,000. Frank was born the same year that the notorious bush ranger, Ned Kelly, was arrested and hanged in Victoria.
Frank was eleven years old when his older brother, George Rowland, [5.6] died, in the Irwin area, during 1891.
Frank spent the first nineteen years of his life near Irwin and Dongara, then followed one year at Moora, and two years at the Canning Jarrah Saw Mills, in the Darling Ranges.
The 20-year-old Frank Rowland met, then married the 32 years old, Laura Edith Andrews, in July 1900. (Laura was born on the 11th of January 1868, in Champion Bay [at the Victoria Hotel]). Laura was the daughter of James William Andrew (James was born in 1826, in England - a former Convict #4566, who became a local Chemist and publican of the Victoria Hotel), and her mother Elizabeth Birkett (she had been born 1833, in England.) James and Elizabeth were married in England and had two children there. James had been convicted of stealing a one sovereign, and one-half sovereign, from a Post Office letter, with two other Postal Clerks. James had been transported to Fremantle, on the Nile in 1858, from Portland Prison. Elizabeth followed her husband out with two children, a few years later, in October 1862. James and Elizabeth were to have two further children in Geraldton including Laura. James died in 1873, when Laura was 5 years old. Laura Andrew was working in a chemist shop in the main street of Geraldton when they met. A family legend was that Frank first saw Laura standing at an upstairs window, over the pharmacy, and set out to meet her. |
They were married on Tuesday, July 17th, 1900, in Geraldton. (Laura was six months pregnant at the time). At the time, Frank and Laura were married, (in 1900), the population of Western Australia had risen to a staggering 179,708 from just 29,000 when Frank was born 20 years earlier driven by the mining boom.
Following their marriage, Frank and Laura Edith Rowland moved, and spent three years working at Canning Timber Mills, near Perth. He was a labourer and Laura was listed as performing 'home duties'. After the birth of their first child, the couple spent twenty-five years farming around Northampton. Their farm was at 'Yuba', (now known as Hutt), about 20km north of Northampton. He was a pioneer in the district. Northampton is located around 47km inland, northeast from Geraldton. The railway went through their property on the way to Ajana in 1912.
Frank was a member of the Northern Development League which was responsible for a number of improvements including a new Post Office and getting the railway extended to Ajana with a siding at 'Hutt'. The railway was extended to Ajana to encourage the development of lead mining and agriculture in the area. The station opened on the 6th of January 1913, and the townsite was declared on the 26th of November 1915. After his father Michael Johnson Rowland died in February 1916, Frank became the next-of-kin for his older brothers who were serving overseas. Two of Frank's brothers were subsequently killed in the war.
Frank also assisted in forming the Northampton and District Agricultural Society in 1920 and had called the meeting which formed the Yuba Branch of the Farmer's and Settlers Association. He was also Secretary of the 'Hall Committee' having assisted in getting it built. Frank was also the secretary of the Primary Producers' Association. Frank and Laura were staunch supporters of the Methodist Church.
During this period, Frank and Laura had three children:
Frank was a member of the Northern Development League which was responsible for a number of improvements including a new Post Office and getting the railway extended to Ajana with a siding at 'Hutt'. The railway was extended to Ajana to encourage the development of lead mining and agriculture in the area. The station opened on the 6th of January 1913, and the townsite was declared on the 26th of November 1915. After his father Michael Johnson Rowland died in February 1916, Frank became the next-of-kin for his older brothers who were serving overseas. Two of Frank's brothers were subsequently killed in the war.
Frank also assisted in forming the Northampton and District Agricultural Society in 1920 and had called the meeting which formed the Yuba Branch of the Farmer's and Settlers Association. He was also Secretary of the 'Hall Committee' having assisted in getting it built. Frank was also the secretary of the Primary Producers' Association. Frank and Laura were staunch supporters of the Methodist Church.
During this period, Frank and Laura had three children:
5.7.1 Sylvia Edith Rowland was born at Nurse Spencer's Clinic, 156 James Street, in Perth, on October 15th, 1901. (WA Birth Registration: 4545/1901). As an infant, Sylvia moved with her parents, from the timber mills at Canning, to Northampton. She was educated at the Northampton Convent and then at the Yuba State School when it was completed in 1912. The Yuba No. 1 School opened on the 4th of December 1912, and closed on the 23rd of August 1916. In 1916, Sylvia won the prize for 'Most Popular Scholar' at the school.
Sylvia lived with her parents on the farm near Binnu, Hutt, until twenty years of age, when she then moved to Geraldton, and later on to Perth, to join the staff of Woolworths Limited, with whom she eventually gained a responsible departmental position.
On the opening of Snell's Bazaar at Geraldton she relinquished her position in Perth, and returned to Geraldton, as an employee of Mr. E. Snell Esq, with whom she remained, until she married. The store had 12 different departments. Sylvia was living at Bluff Point with her parents, Frank and Laura. Frank had sold the farm at Hutt during the depression. In February 1939, Sylvia went for a cruise, to New Zealand, aboard the Strathallan from Fremantle. |
At age 39 years, Sylvia married Albert Frantz Nulsen (Tom), a New Zealander, who had worked in the movie projection industry (the West Talkies Circuit). Tom was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Clement Nulsen of Wiluna, and Perth. They were married in the Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Geraldton, on the 9th, 1940. (WA Marriage Reg. Geraldton 50/1940). the officiating minister being the Reverent Father Bryan. The bride entered the cathedral on the arm of her father Frank. She was daintily dressed for the occasion and was attended by Miss Gene Hatwell as bridesmaid. The duties of best man were carried out by Mr. George Wright. Sylvia's parents were living at Bluff Point at the time. After the ceremony, an informal reception took place at the Victoria Hotel. Following the reception, the bridal couple left on a honeymoon trip to Perth. It is perhaps interesting to note that the Victoria Hotel, the venue of the wedding reception, was the birthplace of the bride's mother, Laura. |
Shortly after their marriage, the couple took over the newly erected 'Yuna Hotel', 62km to the northeast of Geraldton. It was located some 35kms northeast of Nabawa, and is a small community which supports a vast agricultural area. The licence had been transferred from the old Rockwell hotel, the 'Plough and Harrow', to the Yuna Hotel in 1939 and opened its doors on Thursday, the 29th of August 1940.
The West Australian newspaper ran this article on the 28th of August 1940: The new Yuna Hotel has been completed. All modern conveniences are installed-refrigeration. electric light, a septic tank system, bathrooms, with bath heaters, etc. In 1943 (and renewed in 1946), Tom received a 'Wayside House Licence' for the Yuna Hotel, Yuna. They looked after the Hotel until 1948. A bitumen road finally reached Yuna in the 1950's. Whilst in that district Sylvia evinced an active interest in the social life of the community and also became keenly interested in the work of the Yuna Branch of the Country Women's. Association, of which she became treasurer and later held a similar position in the Northern Division of the Country Women's Association. |
In 1949, the couple were recorded as living at 18 Lewis Street, in Geraldton with Tom, unemployed. Sylvia and Tom later moved to Perth, and owned a Wine Saloon in Charles Street, West Perth. They were then living at 21 Claisebrook Road, East Perth. They did not have children. The couple retired to West Perth, before 1950. The couple then took another cruise to New Zealand. Mrs. Sylvia Nulsen joined the Western Suburban Branch of the Country Women's Association and was again appointed to the position of treasurer, and in 1951, she accepted the office of State Treasurer of the Country Women's Association, which she still held at the time of her somewhat sudden death.
5.7.1a? Unknown Rowland There was a 'Rowland, Stillborn Male' born during 1907, in Northampton. (WA Birth Registration: 018/1907 - WA Death Registration No. Northampton: 1907/012)
The body was buried in the Northampton Cemetery, on the 24th of August 1907.
The body was buried in the Northampton Cemetery, on the 24th of August 1907.
5.7.2 Stanley Johnson Rowland was born at Northampton, on August 14th, 1909 (WA Birth Registration: 030/1909). Stan spent the early part of his life on the property at Hutt (about 20km north of Northampton) and was educated at the local 'Yuba State School' and the Ravenhoe School, when he was 13 years old (Ravenhoe opened in 1918, and closed 1923) near Ogalvie.
Stan worked on the family farm. His father Frank was growing wheat in rotation with lupins to maintain the fertility of the sandy soil. When his father Frank sold the Hutt farming property during the depression (c. 1932) and moved to Geraldton, Stan spent two years share farming in the district (at Brookvale, and Hutt) before moving out to Wiluna, to work on the mines. Initially, truck driving at the Mill. |
Stan was in Geraldton, visiting his parents Frank and Laura on holidays in 1937. They were living in Snowden Street. On that occasion, Stan met the 23-year-old, Doris Evelyn Askew.
Doris Askew, had been born on October 30th, 1914, in Tammin, WA. (Northam Birth Reg. 483/1914). Doris was the daughter of Thomas and Bessie Askew, a prominent Blacksmith/ Wheelwright, Justice of the Peace, & Town Councillor, and his wife Bessie, who were then living at 104 Eleanor Street, in Geraldton. Doris was a clerk in her father's Blacksmith and metal working business in Eleanor Street (now renamed Chapman Road) (next door to Birdwood House) Geraldton. Thomas Askew J.P., a wheelwright, had come to Western Australia, from Bedfordshire, England, in the days of the wheat belt boom and took up a perfectly rotten piece of land in the Tammin district, The family persevered with it, but had to yield to the drought of 1919. They then moved to Geraldton where Thomas began his business. |
The couple then returned to Wiluna, by train. Quite a shock for the new bride.
Wiluna is about 590km from Geraldton. Now best know as the start of the Canning overland Stock Route. During the 1920's, gold mining in the area caused the town of Wiluna to thrive and prosper, with the population growing to over nine thousand people by the mid 1930’s. At its peak, the town had a regular railway service to Perth, four hotels and many other amenities and facilities. During their ten year stay in Wiluna, Stan and Doris had three sons; |
5.7.2.1 Peter John Rowland, was born during the 30's in Wiluna. His early education was at the school at Wiluna. Peter moved to Kalgoorlie, with his parents and his brother Gordon, when he was around 12 years old. Peter then continued his education in Boulder and in Kalgoorlie.
Peter left high school at age 15 years to join the Post Office as a Telegram Boy. Peter continued to study and worked his way up in the Postal service in Kalgoorlie and the wheat belt.
Peter married Maureen Dorothy Mangini (born on the 31st of October 1940, in Kalgoorlie). Maureen was the daughter of Herbert Dalton Mangini (born in 1915) and Mena Phyllis Mangini (nee Francke, born in 1916), shopkeepers in Kalgoorlie. Peter and Maureen were married in the Cottesloe Methodist Church, on Saturday, January 28th, 1961. (WA Marriage Reg. Perth 480/1961) with a reception at South Perth. They returned to Kalgoorlie to live. In 1963, the couple were living at 49 Campbell Street with Peter working a postal clerk. Maureen and Peter had one daughter the next year. |
Sandra later re-married, Steven Dumesny. Steve and Sandra resided and worked in many parts of Australia.
They had two children together:
5.7.2.1.1.1 Pia Louise Dumesny, and
5.7.2.1.1.2 Kristalle Lauren Dumesny, was born on the 11th of August 1999, in Adelaide.
Kristalle Dumesny died at age 17 years, as a result of a vehicle accident, on the 18th of April 2017,
at Port Wakefield, in South Australia.
Sandra Natalie Rowland died in Port Hedland, on the 24th of October 2010.
She was buried in Clearview, Port Adelaide Enfield City, South Australia.
After filling a number of Post Office positions throughout Western Australia and becoming a Postmaster in Abermain, NSW, Peter Rowland transferred to the Department of Aviation and became an Air Traffic Controller. He worked his way up through the Department, in Australia and New Guinea, becoming an Air Traffic Control Instructor. The family returned to the Airport at Wyndham in 1968, and then on to Melbourne. In 1972, they were living in Virginia Avenue, Maddington, Western Australia. They later moved to Canberra.
They had two children together:
5.7.2.1.1.1 Pia Louise Dumesny, and
5.7.2.1.1.2 Kristalle Lauren Dumesny, was born on the 11th of August 1999, in Adelaide.
Kristalle Dumesny died at age 17 years, as a result of a vehicle accident, on the 18th of April 2017,
at Port Wakefield, in South Australia.
Sandra Natalie Rowland died in Port Hedland, on the 24th of October 2010.
She was buried in Clearview, Port Adelaide Enfield City, South Australia.
After filling a number of Post Office positions throughout Western Australia and becoming a Postmaster in Abermain, NSW, Peter Rowland transferred to the Department of Aviation and became an Air Traffic Controller. He worked his way up through the Department, in Australia and New Guinea, becoming an Air Traffic Control Instructor. The family returned to the Airport at Wyndham in 1968, and then on to Melbourne. In 1972, they were living in Virginia Avenue, Maddington, Western Australia. They later moved to Canberra.
Peter's wife, Maureen Dorothy Rowland (nee Mangini) died in Canberra, on the 10th February 1985, after a long illness. She was aged 44 years. She is memorialised at the Norwood Park Crematorium. Peter transferred to Flight Service, within the Department of Aviation, and later moved to Adelaide. |
Peter then re-married. He married Margaret Lesley Rennison, (born in the 1940's) at their home at Largs Bay, in Adelaide, on April 26th, 1986. Peter left the Dept. of Aviation and, together with Margaret, purchased a News agency in Port Adelaide. They managed this for a number of years. Margaret and Peter have since retired in Adelaide. |
5.7.2.2 Gordon Stanley Rowland was born in Wiluna on September 24th, 1943. At the time, Doris, Stan and Peter were living at 155 Lennon Street, Wiluna.
Gordon moved as a four-year-old to Kalgoorlie, with his parents, and his brother Peter, in 1947. He was educated at North Kalgoorlie Primary and later at the Eastern Goldfields High School. Gordon could not wait to leave school and became a Motor Mechanic. He enjoyed repairing and riding old motor bikes. |
Later, after working at Henderson Motors on Boulder Road, and still in his teens, Gordon joined the Australian Army as a Despatch Rider. Gordon served three years in the eastern states. After leaving the Army, he returned and became a Western Australian Policeman.
He was a keen member of the Goldfields Motorcycle Club and participated in many motor bike Scrabble meetings at the Cavalier Hill course, on the slime dumps, east of Kalgoorlie. Races were held on a tough 3.1 mile circuit. Gordon courted Lorna Kaye Bennett, (born during 1944) She was a local girl from Kalgoorlie. Lorna worked in a pharmacy in Hannan Street. |
Lorna and Gordon were married, in the Roman Catholic Church, Kalgoorlie, on Saturday, September 19th, 1964 (WA Marriage Reg: East Coolgardie, 121/1964). Gordon was 21 years old.
Gordon and Lorna had two children:
5.7.2.2.1 Lisa Rowland was born on September 2nd, 1965, in the Kalgoorlie Hospital. She was educated in Kalgoorlie and later in Perth, when the family moved. Lisa worked in Midland and was a talented artist. Lisa married Mark Roger Weston (born in England) and had two children. |
5.7.2.2.1.1 Emma Anita Weston, born in the 90's, in Osborne Park.
5.7.2.2.1.2 Taylah Kaye Weston, born in the 90's in Perth. Became a Registered Nurse and married Aman Handa
Lisa was very involved in Western Australian Speedway activities and her family.
Lisa (nee Rowland) Weston, (Polly) died in Perth, on the 29th May 2017.
5.7.2.2.1.2 Taylah Kaye Weston, born in the 90's in Perth. Became a Registered Nurse and married Aman Handa
Lisa was very involved in Western Australian Speedway activities and her family.
Lisa (nee Rowland) Weston, (Polly) died in Perth, on the 29th May 2017.
5.7.2.2.2 Brett Ashley Rowland was born during June, in the 60's in Kalgoorlie.
He was educated in Kalgoorlie and later at Hampton Senior High School, in Perth. Brett met Brenda Anne Tysoe (born in the 60's in Katanning to Terrance and Nola Tysoe). They married and had one daughter. 5.7.2.2.2.1 Kiera Annette Rowland, born in Perth, during the 80's. Kiera married and has three children. 5.7.2.2.2.1.1 Sean Levi 5.7.2.2.2.1.2 5.7.2.2.2.1.3 Brett became a truck driver in Perth and maintains a keen interest in Pinja Park Speedway. Later, Brett married Carol (nee ?) Rowland. |
Gordon Rowland served as a Policeman in the Gold Stealing Detection Branch on the Goldfields. He and Lorna lived at Fimiston in 1968. They then became a Service Station / Motel Manager/Manageress at the John Eyre Motel, Ciaguna on the Eyre Highway by 1972. Caiguna is a small roadhouse community located on the Eyre Highway in Western Australia. It is the second stop east of Norseman on the journey east across the Nullarbor Plain.
The family later moved to 35 Alderhurst Crescent, Bayswater, in the late 1970's, and Gordon became a Security Officer and Supervisor for the CIG company. He often travelled around the Northwest with his job. |
Gordon Stanley Rowland was killed in a Clairmont Motor Speedway accident in Perth, on February 5th, 1982. He was aged thirty-nine years old. His ashes and a memorial are located at Karrakatta Cemetery. An annual motorcycle race is still held in his honour by the speedway community. |
His widow, lived in Midland, later the suburb of Kiara, and finally moved to St. Vincent’s Aged Care, 224 Swan Street, Guildford.
Lorna Kaye Rowland (nee Bennett) died on the 27th of June 2019, and was buried following a funeral service on the 8th of July 2019. Lorna was aged 75 years old.
Lorna Kaye Rowland (nee Bennett) died on the 27th of June 2019, and was buried following a funeral service on the 8th of July 2019. Lorna was aged 75 years old.
5.7.2.3 Colin Thomas Rowland, Doris and Stan’s third son, was born during early 1946, in Wiluna, while they were living in the Married Quarters. According to his mother, Colin was very weak and a sickly child (may have been a cleft palate problem). He was taken to Perth, by air, for surgery, by his grandmother Bessie Askew, and then returned to Wiluna afterwards.
Colin Thomas Rowland died, as a 4-month-old infant, in the Wiluna Hospital, on the 25th of July 1946. (WA Death Certificate 12/46) Colin was buried in the Methodist section of the Wiluna Cemetery, on the 27th of July 1946 (Plot: 449 Reg: 91946). His mother Doris was aged 32 years old. |
In Wiluna, the war severely affected the gold mining industry and many mines shut. However, as arsenic was being produced as a by-product, workers were ”manpowered” to keep production going for the war effort.
Immediately after the war, underground mining ceased in the Wiluna area and gold operations were wound down to virtually nothing. By 1953, only 357 people remained in the area. As the gold mines slowly closed, Stan went looking for work in Kalgoorlie. |
Stan found work on the local gold mines as a 'plant operator' before getting the family to move south in 1947. Doris packed up in Wiluna by herself, and with the two boys travelled by train, via Geraldton and Northam, to Kalgoorlie. The family moved into a rented house at 13 Weir Street, Boulder. Later, Stan and Dorie bought their own home at 99 Hare Street, Lamington, in Northern Kalgoorlie. Stan worked on a rotating roster including night shift on various Eastern Goldfield’s mines. Doris assisted by working as a cleaner at the High School and other Kalgoorlie offices. A couple of years later Doris gave birth to one more son. |
5.7.2.4 Kenneth Ian Rowland was born in the 50's in the Kalgoorlie Hospital.
He was educated at the nearby North Kalgoorlie Primary, and then the Eastern Goldfield’s High School on Boulder Road. Ken became a Radio and Television Apprentice at W.G. Manners & Co. in Kalgoorlie after leaving school at 15 years of age. He later moved to Perth to continue his apprenticeship in Television servicing. Ken studied this electronics trade and later studied photography, at night school. |
Ken joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in Perth, during the 1970's and trained as a Photographer. He served on many bases around Australia and overseas. Ken met Jeannette Carrall in Newcastle while based at Williamtown. They married later at the RAAF Base OPD Chapel, in Newcastle, on April 9th, 1977. Jeannette was the daughter of Mervyn Alexander and Mary-Ann Carrall (nee Burgess Wilkie), of Wallsend. |
Ken and Jen have two daughters.
5.7.2.4.1 Tammy Rowland was born in Altona Hospital, Melbourne, in the 70's. Educated around Australia.
Tammy married Murray Guest and they had one son together:
5.7.2.4.1.1 Elliot Rowland Guest.
5.7.2.4.2 Melita Ann Rowland was born on RAAF Base Butterworth, in Malaysia, in the 80's.
Melita was educated around Australia.
5.7.2.4.1 Tammy Rowland was born in Altona Hospital, Melbourne, in the 70's. Educated around Australia.
Tammy married Murray Guest and they had one son together:
5.7.2.4.1.1 Elliot Rowland Guest.
5.7.2.4.2 Melita Ann Rowland was born on RAAF Base Butterworth, in Malaysia, in the 80's.
Melita was educated around Australia.
Stan Rowland worked on various gold mines including the North Kalgoorlie and the Great Boulder and was also a Winder Driver at a mine in Widgiemooltha. By 1958, he was a 'shift boss' through until 1963. After he left the mines in 1967’s, Stan and Dorie became the Manager, and the Manageress/Matron, of the Eastern Goldfield’s Pensioner’s Lodge at 139 Boulder Road opposite the Foundry Hotel. Stan enjoyed Freemasonry and became the Right Worshipful Master of Lodge Balmoral, No. 896, S.C. in August 1967.
In 1969, Stan and Doris Rowland moved to Perth, from Kalgoorlie, to continue working, and to be closer to their sons, Gordon and Ken. Stan became Green Keeper at a South Perth Bowling Club and Dorie worked as a Cook, in a Retirement Village, in Guilford. They both later retired. Together, they shared a large house at 12 Chatham Street, West Midland. They lived together with Doris’s parents, Tom and Bessie Askew (ex-Geraldton) who had also moved from their home in Lewis Street, Kalgoorlie. Shortly after Stan's son, Gordon Rowland (see above) was tragically killed in February 1982, Stan became ill himself with breathing difficulties.
Stanley Johnson Rowland died in the Swan District Hospital on April the 6th 1982, aged seventy-two, from the effects of Emphysema.
In 1969, Stan and Doris Rowland moved to Perth, from Kalgoorlie, to continue working, and to be closer to their sons, Gordon and Ken. Stan became Green Keeper at a South Perth Bowling Club and Dorie worked as a Cook, in a Retirement Village, in Guilford. They both later retired. Together, they shared a large house at 12 Chatham Street, West Midland. They lived together with Doris’s parents, Tom and Bessie Askew (ex-Geraldton) who had also moved from their home in Lewis Street, Kalgoorlie. Shortly after Stan's son, Gordon Rowland (see above) was tragically killed in February 1982, Stan became ill himself with breathing difficulties.
Stanley Johnson Rowland died in the Swan District Hospital on April the 6th 1982, aged seventy-two, from the effects of Emphysema.
After her parents Tom and Bessie Askew died (Bessie in 1974, and Tom during 1977), Doris Rowland moved to a smaller Mayland’s apartment, and later on to the multi storey St. David’s Retirement Centre, in Mt Lawley.
After some time in the centre, Doris remarried, on May 28th, 1989, at the age of seventy-four. She married a fellow St David’s resident; Herbert Charles Ende, (born 1915. a former Lecturer). They were married at the Uniting Church, Mount Lawley. Herb's first wife Bernice had died in 1978. Herb and Dorie travelled to Asia and the USA before Herb slowly lost his sight and developed Alyssums Disease. Doris Evelyn Ende (nee Rowland/Askew) became ill, entered Perth hospital and later died, on the 27th of July 2002, aged 88 years old. Her ashes joined her son Gordon’s at Karrakatta Cemetery. Herbert Ende died the next year on 18th December 2003, in Joondalup, Como. |
Frank Rowland and his wife Laura moved down from Hutt, Northampton, into 15 Snowden Street, in Bluff Point, Geraldton, departing the Northampton property, on the 29th of March 1932. Frank was 52 years old.
An evening farewell was held in the local Hutt Hall which was crowded. Bluff Point was where he began growing tomatoes on the property and continued market garden farming until he retired. |
After moving to Geraldton, Frank took and immediate interest in local government. Frank Rowland was a Member of the Geraldton Municipal Council, from 1935 to 1944. (Along with Doris Rowland's father, Thomas Askew)
In 1954, Frank and Laura were living at 18 Lewis Street, and Frank is listed as a 'gardener'. He mostly grew commercial quantities of tomatoes.
Frank and Laura Rowland both entered the Geraldton Hospital on the 4th of April 1957.
Frank and Laura Rowland both entered the Geraldton Hospital on the 4th of April 1957.
Frank Rowland (the seventh child of Michael and Rebecca Rowland) passed away in hospital on Sunday, April 20th, 1958, aged 78 years old. (WA Death Reg: Geraldton, 1958/045) His wife, Laura Edith Rowland (nee Andrew) died just a few days after, on Wednesday the 23rd of April 1958. She was aged 90 years old. (WA Death Reg: Geraldton, 1958/046) They were both buried in Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton, Methodist Section Row 13 Plot 5. (Frank buried on the 22nd of April, and then Laura two days later on the 24th of April 1958). |
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