The Registrar, Tuesday 21 November 1922
(Adelaide, South Australia)

OBITUARY
The late Mr. William Rowe was born in Hale, Copperhouse, Cornwall, in 1857. He came to South Australia in the Maori in 1865. He settled at Kapunda, but afterwards went to Moonta and began life underground at the age of 15 years. Mr. Rowe married Miss Mary Hannah Quintrell, of Cross roads. He left the peninsula for Bendigo six years later. After four years on the goldfields he lived at Broken Hill for 24 years, being shift boss on the South Mine for 11 years. Finally he moved to Wallaroo Mines, where he worked until his death. Mrs. F. Pollard, Frederick and Lillian May (Wallaroo Mines), Mrs. W. Jeffries and Mrs. H. Reynolds (Unley) survive, out of a family of 12.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho