Birth: 22 May 1908 St John, Marylebone, London, UK
Father: John Douglas MacRowan c1877-1950
Mother: Grace Francis ? c1886-a1911
Marriage: October-December 1935 Edmonton, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Lily Wood 1912-1997
Death: 19 April 1990 Ashford, Surrey Northern, UK
Brian Alexander MacRowan 1936-a1963
Ann MacRowan [Maidment, Vint] 1942-a1983
Birth of Alexander J Macrowan in FreeBMD in April-June 1908 in St Marylebone (1a 594a).
His two brothers were born in St Johns Wood in 1909 and 1911.
In the 1911 census as Alexander Macrowan aged 2, born in St Johns Wood, London, and living with his parents (John and Grace), two brothers (Frederick and William), and a visitor (Winifred Dicker aged 30, single, and a cook) in three rooms at 11 Clevedon Street, St John-at-Hackney, Stoke Newington.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Alexander J Macrowan aged 20 arriving at Southampton on 9 November 1928 on the Montrose White Star Dominion Line from New York, a farmer from Canada, address 20 Snells Park, Edmonton, London.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Alexander Macrowan address 25 Hendon Road, Bury Steet, Edmonton, Enfield in 1935, other occupants William Richard Francis Macrowan (brother?) and another family.
Marriage of Alexander J Macrowan and Lily Wood in FreeBMD in October-December 1935 in Edmonton (3a 2142).
His son was born in SW Essex in 1936.
There are three entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Alexander John Macrowan address 31 Ellington Road, Feltham, Spelthorne, Middlesex in 1937 to 1939, other occupant Lily Macrowan (wife?).
His daughter was born in Staines in 1942.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Regimental Rolls, 1914-1947 for Alexander John Macrowan 6084541 Queen's Royal West Surrey Regular Army.
There are twelve entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Alexander MacRowan address 31 Ellington Road, Feltham, Spelthorne, Middlesex in 1945 to 1957, other occupant Lily MacRowan (wife?), one for Alexander Mac-Rowan address 56 Station Crescent, Ashford, Spelthorne, Middlesex in 1958, other occupants Lily Mac-Rowan (husband?) and Brian Mac-Rowan (son?), and eight for Alexander MacRowan address 56 Station Crescent, Ashford, Spelthorne, Middlesex in 1959 to 1965, other occupants Lily MacRowan (wife?), Brian MacRowan (son?) in 1959 to 1963, and Ann Macrowan (daughter?) in 1964 and 1965.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Alexander John Macrowan, born on 22 May 1908, in April 1990 in Surrey Northern (17 374).
There are three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Alexander John Macrowan born in St John in one, Marylebone in another on 22 May 1908, parents John Douglas MacRowan and and Grace Francis, his marriage to Lily Wood, and his death in Surrey Northern, Ashford, Middlesex in one, in April 1990, two adding a daughter and one a son. There are also two entries for Alexander J MacRowan born in Greater London in June 1908 and died in Ashford, Middlesex on 19 April 1990, father John Douglas Macrowan.
Note Asford, Middlesex South became part of Surrey Northern on 1 April 1965.
Alexander John MacRowan was the father of Ann MacRowan, wife of Nicholas Frank Vint, my second cousin.
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