Mark Noble, in his _Lives of the Regicides_, says that Owen Rowe was
descended from Sir Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London in 1568. In the
Additional Manuscripts (British Museum), 6337. p. 52., is a coat in trick:
Argent, on a chevron azure, three bezants between three trefoils per pale
gules and vert, a martlet sable for difference; crest, a roe's head couped
gules, attired or, rising from a wreath; and beneath is written, "Coll.
Row, Coll. of hors and futt." These arms I imagine to have been the
regicide's. If so, he was a fourth son. Query, whose? The Hackney Parish
Register records, that on Nov. 6, 1655, Captain Henry Rowe was buried from
Mr. Simon Corbet's, of Mare Street, Hackney. How was he related to Colonel
Owen Rowe? I should feel particularly obliged to any correspondent who
could furnish me with his descent from Sir Thos. Rowe.
According to Mr. Lysons (_Environs of London_, vol. iv. p. 540.), the
daughter of Mr. Rowland Wilson, and widow of Dr. Crisp, married Colonel
Rowe; adding in a note, that he _supposes_ this Colonel Rowe to have been
Colonel Owen Rowe, the regicide. The same statement is found in Hasted's
_History of Kent_ (edit. 1778), vol. i. p. 181. I should be glad of some
more certain information on this point; also, what issue Owen Rowe left, if
any, besides two daughters, whose marriages are recorded in the Hackney
Register.
I am likewise anxious to learn whether there exist any lineal descendants
of this family of Rowe, which had its origin in Kent; and thence branching
off in the sixteenth century, settled and obtained large possessions in
Shacklewell, Walthamstow, Low Layton, Higham Hill, and Muswell Hill.
Through females, several of our nobility are descended from them.