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ROWING Thomas Frederick

m.  1928   Sydney area

b.   1883      Peckham, London UK.

d.   1953       

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ROWING Daisy M. M. (nee Bayman)

m.  1928   Sydney area

b.   1882/3    Manchester, UK.

d.   1968       

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ROWING William Frederick

 (nee Bayman)

b.  1909     Dulwich, London,UK

Thomas was just 10 when his father died and 13 upon the death of his mother.

The 1901 Census describes him as a boarder aged 17 at 51 Goodrich Road Dulwich London. He was carrying out the occupation of a laundry car man.

The census also carries a record of a Daisy Bayman born in Manchester but then also living in the Camberwell Registration District.

One cannot be totally sure but coincidence suggests that Daisy Bayman was delivered of a baby boy registered under the name of William Frederick Bayman during the 1st Quarter of 1909. Thomas is presumed to be the father of that child.

Sometime between that date and 1928 Thomas emigrated to Australia and married Daisy in 1928 in the Sydney Area of New South Wales probably Burwood. Why the couple did not marry before then or whether there was any impediment to such a marriage was unknown.

William apparently took on the name Rowing either before or after the marriage and we meet him for the first time as such through Australian Army Records. He was conscripted into the Army on the 3rd of June 1941 and assigned the number N185481.

At the time of his entry to the army he was occupied as a truck driver. Upon his Mobilsation Attestation Form  he gave his date and place of birth as 21st January 1909 Dulwich (this corresponds nicely with William Frederick Bayman above). He does not name his father directly and he is recorded as a Mr Rowing 29 Shaftsbury Road Burwood N.S.W. There would also appear to be some connection with an address 35, Arlington Street Five Wook and this address appears on the form but has been crossed out and the Shaftsbury Road address substituted. Discharge papers from the Army were subsequently sent to the latter address in August 1944.

It might be that the Five Wook address was a temporary address that he held before entering the army. He was, at this time a single man who gave his age as 32⁴/₁₂ years. He was taken on strength by 35 Battalion on the 4th of  October 1941.

William’s military career lasted a mere 95 days during which he was granted leave without pay (presumably for the Christmas period)  from the 21/12/41 to 28/12/41 and on 4th of Jan 1942 was transferred to “Area 36” which would appear to be military speak for being released (though not discharged) from military service by reason of “being required for employment in an essential occupation”.  Apparently there was no provision for discharge on these grounds in 1942 and a formal post dated discharge certificate was issued on the 31st August 1944 after the regulations had been amended.

Nothing further is known about him.