Rowley is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Following this, he led 20 families to emigrate to the American colonies, where he founded the town of Rowley, Massachusetts in 1639.

The emigrants sailed from Hull in John of London, probably a merchant ship of around 200 tons, probably in June 1638, arriving in Salem, Massachusetts in August.

[3] One of those 20 families was the Grants, who are direct forebears of the model Jodie Kidd, as revealed in a 2008 edition of the BBC genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are?.

[4]: 3  Another descendant, Captain John Clements Wickham served on the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle during its voyage with Charles Darwin and was later the first Magistrate and administrator of Queensland.