Outback Graves Markers

Walter John Harcourt ROWLAND

Burial Location:Innamincka Station - Permission required to visit
Place of Death: Innamincka Station
Date of Death: 03 April 1919
Age:10 months, 5 days
OGM Ref#: SA 0034
Headstone:None

Biography

The grave is 500 metres west of the Innamincka Homestead. The photograph shown in this file was taken about 1919 and shows the twin girls on the left with their mother. Rene Rowland's father, Albert Pope, was the licensee of the Innamincka Hotel from 1900 to 1913. Arkell (known as Artie) Harcourt Rowland later became Manager of Innamincka Station and was known as one of the best stockman in the North. The couple were married on 11 August 1915 at St Mary Magdalene Church, Adelaide (Marriage Registration 264/425, Adelaide). Other children born to the couple were twins, Alice May and Ellen Ada, born 5 May 1916 (Birth Registration 979/152, Kapunda). The parents divorced in 1940.

Parents:Irene (nee POPE) and Arkell Harcourt ROWLAND
Birth Details:28 May 1918, Kapunda; Birth Registration 19A/139, Kapunda
Death Certificate:427/509, Burra