Birth: 3 July 1911 Booley Farm, Stanton upon Hine Heath, Shropshire, UK
Father: Richard Rowlands 1866-1950
Mother: Mary Groom 1868-1944
Marriage: April-June 1937 Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Wife: Elsie Mary Zephirin Evans 1915-1978
Marriage: October-December 1983 North Shropshire, UK
Wife: Florence Madge Challinor [Croucher] 1916-1995
Death: 20 September 1990 11 Ashwood Close, Market Drayton, Shropshire, UK
By Elsie
Jacqueline Ann Rowlands [Rowe] 1939-a1967
Stephenie D Rowlands [Bowers] 1941-a1964
Birth of John Rowlands, mother's maiden name Groom, in FreeBMD in July-September 1911 in Wem (6a 1292).
In the 1921 census as John Rowlands born in Shropshire in 1911 and living with Richard and Mary Rowlands (parents?), Arthur and George Rowlands (brothers?), Beatrice, Betty, Jessie and Maggie and Mary Rowlands (sisters?) and Ellen Jane Rowlands (aunt?) in Moreton Say, Market Drayton, Shropshire.
Marriage of John Rowlands and Elsie M Z Evans in FreeBMD in April-June 1937 in Wrexham (11b 540).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as John Rowlands born 3 July 1911, married, a civilian aero engineer fitter and living with Elsie M L Rowlands (wife?), Edith L and Tottie Evan (both nealy illegible) and two others at 5 Westlands Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire.
His two daughters were born in Whitchurch in 1939 and 1941.
Marriage of John Rowlands and Florence M Croucher in FreeBMD in October-December 1983 in North Shropshire (30 105).
Entry in the Register of Deaths for John Rowlands, born 3 July 1911, in September 1990 in Shrewsbury (30 210).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for John Rowlands died 20 September 1990 in Drayton, Salop, probate 4 March 1991 in London. "Rowlands, John of 11 Ashwood Clo Market Drayton Salop died 20 September 1990 Probate London 4 March Not exceeding £115000".
There are three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for John Rowlands.
John Rowlands was the husband of Florence Madge Challinor, wife of Edward Charles Croucher, my first cousin once removed.
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