Headstone 26
~ Sandstone ~ Gothic top and indented sides, with a central leaf motif, with kerbs
- William Thomas Rowett 1824 – 28 December 1864
- Aged 40 years
- Captain
- Died at Calcutta, India
- Husband of Ann Rendle Rowett
- Father of Edith, William, Jonathan & Charles
- “Home at last”
- Talland Church Marriage
- William Thomas Rowett, mariner to Ann Rendle
- 26 March 1849
- Ann Rowett 1825 – 17 April 1899
- Aged 74 years
- Edith Rowett 1854 – 18 May 1904
- Aged 50 years
- William Thomas Rowett 1858 – 22 November 1861
- Aged 3 years
- Jonathan Rendle Rowett 1856 – 8 December 1865
- Aged 9 years
- Alice Mary Rowett 1857 – 3 December 1909
- Aged 52 years
- Charles Rowett (1852-1934)
Ancestry Research – Master Mariner, living in Liverpool, born Portland, Dorset. Married Ann Rendle at Talland Church 25 March 1849. Captain of the ‘Startled Fawn’ caught in the Calcutta Cyclone, which killed over 60,000 people.
‘In the great tidal wave at Calcutta in 1864, his vessel, the Startled Fawn, was caught in the catastrophe, and from the exposure incident to saving her, Captain William Thompson Rowett was sized with a fever from which he died.’
Wichita Eagle, Kansas, 1934
Stone erected by Charles Rowett (1852-1934), of Kansa City, USA – son of William & Ann (nee Rendle) Rowett and husband of Alice Mary (nee Jackson) Rowett
Talland Church Headstones 
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