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If only you had told us what you know in the first place.
'A bible I have states that John Rowe died circa 1861 just before his son John Redfern Rowe was married in 1861 and that he came from or near Barnstaple and his occupation was a member of the Royal Society of Surgeons.'
Which may or may not be true, of course.
Of the dozens of John Rowe deaths in England 1859-1863, this is the only one in Barnstaple in that period:
ROWE, JOHN >> age 78
1861 D Quarter in BARNSTAPLE UNION Volume 05B Page 315
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp
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This seems to be John Redfern Rowe in 1841
EDIT - oops, I hadn't paid attention, Detective posted this earlier
Name: John Rowe
Age: 5
Estimated birth year: abt 1836
Gender: Male
Where born: Devon, England
Civil Parish: Bishops Tawton
Hundred: South Molton
County/Island: Devon
Registration district: Barnstaple
Sub-registration district: Bishops Tawton
Ann Redfern 25 - independent means
John Rowe 5
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Strange muddle of Redferns, but these are in more or less the right place in 1851
Name: Elizabeth Redfern
Age: 56
Estimated birth year: abt 1795
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Blackonly, Devon, England
lodging house keeper, widowed
Name: Ann Redfern
Age: 40
Estimated birth year: abt 1811
Relation: Niece
Gender: Female
Where born: Newport, Devon, England
house servant, unmarried
Civil Parish: Portsea
Ecclesiastical parish: St Paul
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England
Registration district: Portsea Island
Sub-registration district: Landport
Elizabeth Redfern 56
Ann Redfern 40
death:
REDFERN, ELIZABETH GOODRIDGE aged 66
1859 J Quarter in PORTSEA ISLAND Volume 02B Page 272
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There's no listing on Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online
http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/browse_r.htm
Probable Letters of Administration for the John Rowe who died in 1861, Barnstaple
ROWE John
(21 Nov 1861)
Letters of Administration of the Personal estate and effects of John Rowe late of Stoke Rivers in the County of Devon Yeoman a Widower deceased who died 17 Oct 1861 at Stoke Rivers aforesaid was granted at Exeter to Mary Buckingham (wife of James Buckingham) of Swimbridge in the said County one of the children of the said deceased she having been sworn. Effects under £200
https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills
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That John Rowe was a widowed farmer by 1841
1851:
Name: John Rowe
Age: 67
Estimated birth year: abt 1784
Relation: Head
Gender: Male
Where born: Swimbridge, Devon, England
Civil Parish: Stoke Rivers
County/Island: Devon
Country: England
Registration district: Barnstaple
Sub-registration district: Barnstaple
John Rowe 67
Elizabeth Gould 36
Mary Lymons 84
John Fry 17
Thomas Gould 13
so it's entirely possible that he was John Redfern/Rowe's father, and John had been sent to live with his mother's family.
I think what is absolutely needed is the information about John's father from the 1861 marriage certificate. It may not be accurate or true, but we still need to know what it says.
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from family search
Elizabeth's parents' marriage
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKTP-YBH
Name Richard Redfern
Spouse's Name Nancy Hodge
Event Date 26 Jun 1803
Event Place Bishops Tawton,Devon,England
births to Richard and Ann Redfern
Elizabeth Redfern
christening: 15 July 1804
BISHOPS TAWTON, DEVON, ENGLAND
father: Richard Redfern
mother: Ann
Jno Hodge Redfern
christening: 25 December 1805
BISHOPS TAWTON, DEVON, ENGLAND
father: Richard Redfern
mother: Nancy
Ann Redfern
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening: 10 February 1811
BISHOPS TAWTON, DEVON, ENGLAND
father: Richard Redfern
mother: Nancy
Daughter Ann is the one young John is living with in 1841.
Her widowed aunt Elizabeth Redfern in 1851 would be the sister-in-law of Richard.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC97-D86
Name John Redfern
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 1816
Event Place Devon
Spouse's Name Elizabeth Goodridge Pike
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This is the only Redfern baptism at findmypast of the generation of Richard and his brother John
First name(s) Jennefer
Last name Redfern
Birth year -
Baptism year 1790
Baptism date 26 May 1790
Denomination Anglican
Baptism place Bishop's Tawton
> Father's first name(s) John
> Mother's first name(s) Ann
Mother's last name -
County Devon
Country England
I would expect that was a sister of Richard and John
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