Rowland Skipsey Waterhouse

Rowland was born on January 29th, 1818 in Reading and his baptism took place on April 15th, 1818 in Church Street-Wesleyan, Reading Circuit.^1 2 

• Birth Notes

  ROWLAND SKIPSEY WATERHOUSE
  Birth:      
  29 JAN 1818       
      Christening:      
  15 APR 1818       Church Street-Wesleyan, Reading Circuit,
  Father:      JOHN WATERHOUSE
  Mother:      JANE BEADNELL

Rowland's father was Rev John Waterhouse and his mother was Jane Beadnell Skipsey.  His paternal grandparents were Thomas Waterhouse and Hannah Houlden. He had seven brothers and four sisters, named John, William, Jabez, Joseph, George, Joseph, Samuel, Jane, Mary, Emma and Hannah.  He was the third oldest of the twelve children.  He died at the age of 82 in 1900.¹