Seeking ancestors of Mary (Carman?) Rowcroft Smith

CARMAN, ROWCROFT, SMITH, HAMMOND, WILLIAMSON, COTTLE, JONES, HAWORTH, CLARK, WALTHALL

Posted By: Charles Walthall (email)
Date: 4/16/2007 at 12:12:02

Seeking: Ancestors of Mary (Carman?) Rowcroft Smith (b Jul 1837; 1837-40 IL or IA?; d btwn 1900-10)

ROWCROFT FAMILY
(Rowcraft, Rocroft)
(Cheshire, England; Iowa & Kansas)

Origins:
Rowcroft Smithy was located about 1 mi S of Stockport at the intersection of the turnpike to London (A6) & the road to Bramhall (A5102) [on William Stopford’s Map c 1800]
[Both Mark & son Isaac Rowcroft were blacksmiths]
Rowcrofts are also found in Derbyshire, England.

First Generation:

Isaac Rowcroft (b c 1786 Cheshire, Stockport Parish) Ag. Lab. [farmer?] (55 in 1841)
m. 1809 in Gawsworth, Cheshire, Eng [SW of Macclesfield]
Sarah Hammond (b c 1776 England) (65 in 1841)

1837 Oct-Dec marriage recorded for Isaac Rowcroft [no name given]
1841 Census England, Cheshire, Stockport parish, Macclesfield Hundred, Hazel Grove sub-registration, Bramhall [village S of Stockport]: Rowcroft, Isaac 55 & Sarah 65
7 Jun 1849 Isaac Rowcroft 60 arrived New Orleans from Liverpool on “Water Witch” bound for Burlington, IA [National Archives Series No: M259_31]

Second Generation:

Elizabeth Rowcraft (sic) m. George Kous 10 May 1846 in Des Moines Co, IA [d/o Isaac & sister of Mark?]

Mark Rowcroft (b c 1813 Stockport, Eng; d 18 Feb 1890 Colusa Co, CA, bur Elks Creek, CA) blacksmith & farmer
m. (1) Isabella [Williamson ?] (b c 1815 Stockport, Eng; d 1870, bur Spring Grove Cem, Miami, KS)
m. (2) 17 Oct 1872 Miami Co, KS Mrs. Hannah Cottle (b c 1819)

23 Jun 1840 Mark Rowcroft 33 arrived New Orleans from Liverpool on “Regelus” [Regulus?] [National Archives Series No: M259_20] [Mark came to America ahead of the rest of the family]
1841 Census Eng, Cheshire, Stockport parish, Bramhall: Rowcroft, Isabella 25, Isaac 7, Sarah 5, Mary 3
1856 Census Washington Twp, Des Moines, IA: Rowcroft, Mark 43, Isabella 42, Isaac 22, Mary 17, Samuel 12, Elizabeth 7, Robert 4m
1859 Record of Settlers Mound twp, Lykins (Miami) Co, KS: Mark Rowcroft April 1857
1860 Census Mound Twp, Miami, KS: Rowcroft, Mark 47, Isabella 47, Samuel 16, Elizabeth 12, Robert 6
1865 Census Mound twp, Miami, KS: Rowcroft, Mark 52, Isabella 51, Samuel 21, Elizabeth 18, Robert 13

children:
Third Generation:

Isaac Rowcroft (b 1834) [see below]

Sarah Rowcroft (b c 1836 Stockport, Cheshire, Eng) (5 in 1841)

Mary Rowcroft (b c 1838/9 Stockport, Cheshire, Eng) (3 in 1841; 17 in 1856)
m. 2 Nov 1857 Osawatomie, Miami, KS
Reuben Smith (b Oct 1832 Eng; alive 1900) 1853 immigrated to IA; 1857 to Lykins (Miami) Co, KS; 1861 Capt. 2nd MO Cav.; 1870-73 state House of Representatives; 1873-83 Steward for KS State Lunatic Asylum, Osawatomie; m (2) Mariah C. (b May 1849 IN); 1900 in Mound Twp; 10 children [including: Lorilla b c 1864]
[Is he related to Samuel Smith below?]

Samuel W. (S.W.) Rowcroft (b c 1844 IA; bur Elk Creek, Glenn, CA)
(12 in 1856; 16 in 1860; 21 in 1865)
Co. M 15th KS Cav. Union
m. 28 Apr 1868 Miami Co, KS Mary Jones (bur Elk Creek, Glenn, CA)

Elizabeth Rowcroft (b c 1847-9 IA) (7 in 1856; 12 in 1860; 18 in 1865)
m. 24 Jun 1868 Osawatomie, Miami, KS
Spencer Allen Haworth (1846-1913), s/o Allen Haworth (1814-1885) & Delilah ? (1813-1910)

Robert Rowcroft (b c 1852-56 IA; bur Elk Creek, Glenn, CA) (4 m in 1856; 6 in 1860; 13 in 1865)
m. (1) 8 Apr 1871 Stanton, KS Deborah C. Clark
m. (2) Ida May ? (19 May 1859; 14 May 1883 bur Elk Creek, Glenn, CA)

Isaac Rowcroft (b 31 May 1834; 1834-36 Stockport, Cheshire, Eng; d Sep 1866)
(7 in 1841; 22 in 1856; 24 in 1860; 31 in 1865; family Bible: 31 May 1834)
blacksmith & farmer [see Rowcroft Smithy, Bramhall, Cheshire, Eng. above]
1865 worked for: B. Miller Bros. & Co., wagon & carriage shop, Paola, KS
m. Mary [Carman?] (b Jul 1837; 1837-40 IL or IA?; d btwn 1900-10)
(family Bible: Jul 1837; 22 in 1860; 28 in 1865; 43 in 1880; 48 in 1885; 58 in 1895; 60 in 1900)

Bible page, Register of Births: Rowcroft, Isaac, Mary, Sarah, Isabella, Job, Mark
1841 Census Eng, Cheshire, Stockport parish, Bramhall: Rowcroft, Isaac 7 (b c 1834) s/o Isabella
1856 Washington Twp, Des Moines, IA: Isaac s/o Mark & Isabella, b c 1834 in Eng
1859 Record of Settlers Mound twp, Lykins (Miami) Co, KS: Isaac Rowcroft Oct 1857
1860 Mound twp, Miami, KS:
1865 Paola, Miami, KS
“Benedict Miller,” William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas at:
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/miami/miami-co-p7.html

children:
Fourth Generation:

Sarah Rowcroft (b & bur 18 Jan 1858 Miami Co, KS)

Isabella Rowcroft (25 Jul 1859/1860 Miami Co, KS; 25 Feb 1900 Yellow Spring Twp, Des Moines, IA) m. 2 Oct 1878 Osawatomie, Miami, KS
John Laubscher (28 Dec 1847 Bern, Switz; 28 Sep 1921 Yellow Spring Twp, Des Moines, IA)

Job Rowcroft (b 1 Dec 1862 Miami Co KS) [bur Elk Creek, Glenn, CA] [He moved with the Rowcrofts to CA]

Mark Rowcroft (b 23 Oct 1865 Miami Co KS)

Mary (Carman?) Rowcroft, widow of Isaac Rowcroft (d Sep 1866),
m. (2) 13 Jun 1867
Samuel Smith (11 Mar 1830 Stockport, Cheshire, Eng; 16 May 1900 Osawatomie, Miami, KS) shoemaker
[Is there a connection between the Smiths & Rowcrofts of Stockport? Between Reuben & Samuel Smith? Bros? born 2 yrs apart; Both named daughters “Lorilla”]

child:

Laurella Elizabeth Smith (28 Jul 1879 Osawatomie, Miami, KS; 25 Jul 1952 Osawatomie, Miami, KS) [“E. Lorilla” 1880 Census Mediapolis, Des Moines, IA]
m. Albert J. Walthall (15 May 1883 Beagle, Miami, KS; 30 Nov 1972 Osawatomie, Miami, KS)
[grandparents of Charles L. Walthall, s/o Albert Charles Walthall & Naomi Agatha Jenkins]

Sources:
Rowcroft family Bible page [handwriting of Mary (Carman?) Rowcroft Smith ?]
1841 Census Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, Eng
1856 Census IA, Des Moines, Washington Twp
1860 Census KS, Lykens, Osage Twp
1865 Census KS, Miami, Paola
1880 Census IA, Des Moines, Mediapolis
1880 Census KS, Miami, Osawatomie
1880 Census KS, Miami, KS St Lunatic Asylum [steward not inmate]
1890 Census KS, Miami, Osawatomie
1900 Census KS, Miami, Osawatomie
1900 Census KS, Miami, Mound Twp
“Early marriages in Des Moines Co, IA” at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm
“Benedict Miller,” William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas at:
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/miami/miami-co-p7.html
History of Miami County, Kansas (Miami County Historical Society, 1987)
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ca/glenn/cemeteries/elkcreek.txt

Thank you, Charles Walthall