Died in Warwickshire, England, on this date in 1613(!): 9th great-grandfather Valentine Rowell. His son Thomas immigrated to New England in approximately 1638, and settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts. Several generations later, a descendant married into the Colby family. In the meantime, Valentine’s great-grandaughter Mary Rowell was caught in a Puritan scandal. Read more …
Top photo: Warwick Castle; no known connection to the family. Below: Mancetter Church, where Valentine Rowell and Elizabeth Hampton were married in 1690 or 1691, and where they are probably buried. Other sources put their burial in nearby Atherstone parish.
