Rowland Owen Richards

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Rowland Owen Richards

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Merionthshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Death: November 08, 1720 (60)
Tredyffrin township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of John Richards
Husband of Catherine Richards
Father of Rowland Richards, Jr; Margaret [Langworthy] Williams; Samuel Richards of Port Kennedy and Sarah Evans

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About Rowland Owen Richards

The Owen Richards of this profile (if the death date of 1720 and marriage to Catherine (Jones) Richards are correct) is not the same in the article cited below because that Owen Richards in the article married in 1727 to Elizabeth Baker and died after 1734. Their children were James, William, John, and Elizabeth. The information in in the article

"A SKETCH OF SOME OF THE DESCENDANTS OF OWEN RICHARDS, WHO EMIGRATED TO PENNSYLVANIA PREVIOUS TO 1718. BY LOUIS RICHARDS, READING, PA." in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol VI, 1882. pgs 69-85.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Yg0XAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=...

• May be the immigrant in this line 

? Owen Richards from Merionethshire came around 1715 and settled in Berks county (his descendants were traced in Lewis Richards' 1882 book A Sketch of Some of the Descendants of Owen Richards).

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Rowland Owen Richards's Timeline

1660
April 30, 1660
Merionthshire, Wales, United Kingdom
1690
April 22, 1690
Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States
1694
1694
Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
1700
August 7, 1700
Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, PA
1703
May 27, 1703
Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States
1720
November 8, 1720
Age 60
Tredyffrin township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States