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- Age at death (2): 76 years
Mark was keeper of the light on the Gull Island four miles off Cape St. John for twenty years - 1884 to 1904. The copper mines at Tilt Cove were working then. When the light house folk came on shore at Tilt Cove, business was done by Peter Winsor, Wm. Winsor and Abel Adams who was the father of Mrs. Arthur Albert Alcock of Corner Brook in my day. An A. Alcock worked in the treasurer's office of the paper company at Corner Brook while I (R.N.R.) worked in the accounts department. -- RnRowsell
From Record of Marriages, Church of England, Leading Tickles:
Mark ROUSELL, Leading Tickles & Mary Jane PENNY, Leading Tickles
in Church at Leading Tickles by Walter Redfearn Smith
Witnesses: George Rousell, Henry Rousell, Emma Susanna Rousell, James
Candow, M.D.
Unknown source: shows he had a son Lemuel who died of diphtheria in Labrador.
Lloyd Rowsell: A piece in the Twillingate Sun of Aug 24th, 1889: (To the Editor Twillingate Sun) Dear Sir, -- The men out here picked up a fishing skiff this summer, and I wish you to publish it in the paper, that the owner may come for it. She is a new skiff built the past winter, and is black with a white streak around her; between 19 and 20 feet long, by 5 feet wide, fitted out for three persons fishing in her. There are three oars in her. Probably it is one that broke loose from the stern of a craft while in tow, as the tow rope was partly on her. She was bottom up when found about three miles from the Island. She will be taken care of until the owner calls for her, only the persons who picked her up want 4 dollars, for their trouble. She is worth about £5. The lower part of her bottom is copper painted. Yours Truly, Mark ROUSELL. Gull Island, Aug. 16th, 1889.
BW: Mark discoved the bodies from the wreck of the "Swansea" on Cape John, Gull Island of Tilt Cove in 1867 where he later became the lighthouse keeper. He received a letter of commendation from Queen Victoria, who invited him to visit her in London, England.
From the diary of Rev. R. Smith, a Methodist minister in the area between 1906-1907.
1906..Oct. 5th..."arrived at Rowsell's Island where I was met by Mrs. Isreal Rowsell. They were very kind people....I was taken over to the house of senior Mr. Rowsell and shown my room. Mr.Rowsell, a retired lighthouse keeper and his son Arthur and daughter were away from home and I was alone in the house."
1907..Jan. 18th..."after breakfast Mr. Rowsell came in and....he wanted to talk."
1907...Jan. 23rd.."we had our service in the home of Mr. Mark Rowsell."
1907....March 3rd. " We came back to Rowsell's Island to spend the night. Arthur was away and I miss talking to him..."
Buried in Old Methodist Cemetery, Leading Tickles.
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1837 - 1913 (76 years)
