1823 dismissed by MARSDEN. AMID
could be same as James COWELL abt 1790
when returned to NZ in 1830 opened a grog shop! JDRA
RHYR3 has "James Vittoria COWELL was the young son of John and Ann COWELL who had joined the missionaries at the BOI in 1822 but left dissillusioned in 1823. In 1829 they were the first traders resident at Kawhia."
actually son of John and Elizabeth. WIKI
WIKI
John was born in 1780. He is the son of John Cowell and Mary Angell. [1]
John Cowell married Elizabeth Fowler in Kent,1812. [2] Their first and only son was born on the day of Victory of the Battle of Vittoria and was so named, John Vittoria Cowell in 1813.
In 1820, John was appointed a lay missionary for the London Mission Society and its colony in New Zealand. [1] He was tasked with turning the native flax into useable rope. He and his family left Kent that year to sail for New Zealand. During the journey, his Wife and Maori ward both became ill and died. [2]
Held up in Australia en route to New Zealand, John met and married Mary Ann Risdon Howe, [3]and finally in 1821 John, Mary Ann and John Jnr traveled to New Zealand.
John became a prominent figure in the colony in it's early years, and his son would have learnt the native language, but unable to reconcile his beliefs with that of the LMS, John retired from the Mission and moved his family back to New South Wales, Australia. During this time he acquired land, and continued a rope business where his son acted as supplier, trading with New Zealand and bringing the goods back to Australia. [3] [4]
Sometime into the family's Australian term, John Vittoria Cowell was involved in an incident in New Zealand[5], governed at the time by New South Wales, which came to a head when the family left Australia to settle permanently in New Zealand. Mary Ann died in Kawhia, New Zealand in 1832 and no children are known to be born in this marriage.[6]
The indigenous Maori had come to respect and admire John Cowell Senior and his son, and as part of their gratitude gifted John Cowell senior his third wife, Rewa Te Rarangi Pouaka, whom had previously been married to James Moncur, a Navy captain. Unable to stand being away from her native land for so long, her marriage was disolved to James and she became free to marry again, however was tarred with melancholy. Rewa and john concieved a son, but it would seem that John my have died before his birth, and Rewa, soon after. The son was named John Cowell after his father, but reinterpreted this name to Hone (John) Kaora (Cowell) in respect for his mother heritage and raised by her people, knowing both her history and his fathers. Kaora continues to be used by his descendants in New Zealand to this day. John Cowell immigrated to Sydney to Bay of Islands, NZ in the Westmoreland, on 8 February 1822.
2,6 He was in twine spinner with CMS mission Kerikeri in 1823.
1 He emigrated from BOI to Sydney on the Dragon in November 1823.
4,11 He was a trader Kawhia in 1829.
12 He immigrated to AUS? to NZ in 1830.
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