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Date Posted: 11:59:15 09/01/02 Sun
Author: Christine Garwood
Subject: Samuel Rowbotham (1816?-1884)- Astronomer/Quack

I am looking for further information about Samuel Birley Rowbotham, born in the Stockport area c.1816, died in Hampstead in December 1884. Rowbotham was an astronomy lecturer (he believed the earth was flat), quack doctor and inventor. He was based in North London (Havertsock Hill area) from the 1860s and was married to Caroline Elizabeth. They had children named Edgar, Alice and Ada. He sometimes used the name 'Birley' and the pseudonym 'Parallax'.

Any further information gratefully received! (Particularly about parentage and descendants)

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[> Re: Samuel Rowbotham (1816?-1884)- Astronomer/Quack -- Ann Coltman, 04:10:53 11/07/03 Fri

Samuel Rowbotham was my great grandfather. His daughter Alice married Theo Kassner and went to South Africa to live.
They had 4 children -- the second son and third child was my grandfather Felix Kassner. He married Jean Brereton and had one daughter, my mother Felicity Kassner. She married Peter Coltman and moved to the USA with her 4 children. I am the oldest. Are you a relative????

>I am looking for further information about Samuel
>Birley Rowbotham, born in the Stockport area c.1816,
>died in Hampstead in December 1884. Rowbotham was an
>astronomy lecturer (he believed the earth was flat),
>quack doctor and inventor. He was based in North
>London (Havertsock Hill area) from the 1860s and was
>married to Caroline Elizabeth. They had children named
>Edgar, Alice and Ada. He sometimes used the name
>'Birley' and the pseudonym 'Parallax'.
>
>Any further information gratefully received!
>(Particularly about parentage and descendants)

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[> Re: Samuel Rowbotham (1816?-1884)- Astronomer/Quack -- Allen Morrison (Hopefull), 15:34:01 08/11/07 Sat

Just wanted to join those seeking more information on Samuel Rowbotham, a man much maligned for his bold stance
on the Flat Earth theory. If someone could inform me of the exact date of his death I would be most appreciative.

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