South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) Tue 31 Mar 186852911

ROWETT - DART. -On the 11th March, by the
Rev. T. Jasper Smyth, M.A., at the residence of
the bride's father, Mr. Charles Thos. Rowett, of
Kapunda, to Mary Jane Dart, daughter of Mr.
John Dart, of Spring Creek, near Marrabel.

Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) Thu 23 Jul 193152909

MRS. M. J. ROWETT

Mrs. Mary Jane Rowett, who died on
June 30, at "White Hill," Murray
Bridge, at the age of 88 years, was a
colonist of 82 years. She was born in
Cornwall, England, in 1843, and arrived
at Port Adelaide in the ship Mary Ann
with her parents, Mr. ana Mrs. John
Dart, in 1849. Her parents travelled
by bullock dray to Burra, where they
made their home on the bank of the
Burra Creek for a time. Later they
took up land near Hamilton. In 1851,
when the Victorian gold diggings
started, she travelled overland with her
parents and brother in a dray. They
spent about two years at the Goulbourn
diggings, and then returned to South
Australia. Her father took up land at
Spring Creek, near Marrabel, where
they resided many years. It was there
she met her future husband, Mr.
Charles Rowett. She was married in
1868, and lived in the Victoria Hotel,
Kapunda, for several years. Mr. and
Mrs. Rowett farmed at Marrabel two
years, and in 1875 removed to Point
Pass Hotel, where her husband died, in
1896. She also lived at Eudunda. She
leaves two sons, Mr. John Rowett, of
Marrabel, and Mr. Richard Rowett, of
Pinnaroo, and one daughter, Jane
French, of Murray Bridge, 28 grand
children, and 26 great-grandchildren.