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Information on John Rowland

From "The Official and Statistical Registerof the State of Mississippi, Vol. 2", by the Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, pub 1908:

DUNBAR ROWLAND.

Dunbar Rowland, Director of the Department of Archives and History, was born August 25, 1864, at Oakland, Miss. He is the son of Dr. William Brewer Rowland and wife, Mary (Bryan) Rowland. His mother was a direct descendant of Charles Moorman, of Louisa County, Virginia, who emancipated his slaves in 1778. Dr. William Brewer Rowland was the son of Col. Creed T. Rowland and wife, Matilda (Brewer) Rowland, both of whom were natives of Henry County, Virginia. In 1840 Creed T. Rowland removed from Virginia and settled in Lowndes County, Mississippi, after which he moved to Aberdeen, Monroe County, and lived on his plantation near that city until his death in 1866. He was the son of Michael Rowland and Elizabeth (Hairston) Rowland, of Henry County, Virginia. Michael Rowland was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and took part in the battle 6f Guilford Courthouse. He was the son of Andrew Rowland, a descendant of John Rowland, who was a native of Egham, Surrey County, England. John Rowland immigrated to America in 1635 in the ship Dorset—John Flower, Master— and settled in Virginia. He was the son of John Rowland and wife, Scolis (Pemberton) Rowland, of Surrey County, England, and grandson of Thomas Rowland, of Baconsthorpe, England. The name Rowland is of Norman origin, and was brought to England in the train of William the Conqueror. From England branches of the family spread into Wales and Scotland, and continued to be identified with the literature of Europe.