Rowland Simpson ALSTON [3899]

  General Notes:

Births.
Alston - 10th inst., at Dennington, the wife of the Rev E C Alston of a son.
Ipswich Journal 12 February 1859.

Rowland Simpson Alston
Birth Place: Dennington, Suffolk, England
Christening Date: 17 Apr 1859
Christening Place: Dennington, Suffolk, Eng, Suffolk, England
Father: Edward Constable Alston
Mother: Anne Maria Simpson

Alston, Norman Thomas, b. Feb 1859, a. May 1870, l. July 1876, Cricket XI 1875, Grazier, m. 1881.
Bradfield College Register 471. NZSOG.

Rowland settled at "Newton" Lower Herbert North Queensland in 1880

Rowland Simpson Alston is recorded on the 1912 Federal Electoral Roll for the Division of Herbert subdivision of Ingham Queensland - Rowland Simpson Alston Ingham farmer


His sons War Record show his address as Ingham Queensland Australia.

Rowland Simpson Alston
Birth Date: 1859
Birth Place: England
Death Date: 15 Oct 1925
Death Place: Ingham, Hinchinbrook Shire, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery: Old Ingham Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Ingham, Hinchinbrook Shire, Queensland, Australia
Has Bio?: Y
Spouse:
Annie Elizabeth Alston
Children:
Ruby Sunnyside Cunningham
Hugh George Alston

  Research Notes:

This letter to an unidentified sibling by his brother Hugh mentions Rowland.

3 New Square
Lincoln's Inn
6 March /85
My dear Filibic [?]
I am so glad to hear you and your little son are doing well, at any rate it is to be hoped that you will be favoured with warmer and warmer weather every day now - We heard from Rowland the other day he is doing very well and has now set up a dairy. His last adventure was very bad but they got out of it safely. He upset them all in his buggy and the wheel went right over his wife's shoulder and the baby's head but they were neither of them in the least. Nana I regret to say is in a very nervous state one day very well and the next day very ill. She is staying with two Miss Bickells, such nice cheerful old ladies who are very kind to her and really if she doesn't feel well there, she won't anywhere. I am well enough but considerably down in the mouth, I can't get any work and I am jolly worried with Nana's illness and the farm and every post seems to bring something disagreeable, a sheep dead or a claim for a little or something wants painting, and now there is every prospect of our income from Maplestead being substantially reduced.
With best love
Ever your affec bro
Hugh Alston.

It is uncertain which of Hugh's siblings he is writing to.

Letter Courtesy Steward Archive - 2018

Images courtesy P R Steward 2003

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 8 Apr 1861, Dennington SFK. Rowland is recorded as a son aged 2 born Dennington

Rowland married Elizabeth Annie JONES [3900] [MRIN: 1342] on 6 Dec 1881 in Newton Herbert Queensland Aust. (Elizabeth Annie JONES [3900] was born circa 1850 in Candover HAM and died on 24 Jun 1929 in Ingham Queensland.)