Samuel Marcus Dill and Agnes Rowe

The loss of Alfred Rowe on the Titanic must have stayed with his twin sister, Agnes Graham Rowe (died 1934) for the rest of her days, and indeed with her nine children, all of whom were old enough at the time to appreciate the magnitude of the disaster. 

It is a fair assumption that the family will have sought comfort in religion, not least since Agnes was married to the Reverend Samuel Marcus Dill (1843-1924) of Belfast, great-grandson of Susanna West,  third cousin once removed of Hetty Jane Owen, and the second child of Robert Foster Dill and Catherine Haughton Rentoul.

Samuel Marcus Dill and Agnes Rowe had by 1891 transplanted themselves away from Ireland to Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland, there to proceed with ministering to the spiritual needs of the Scottish Presbyterian community. 

It will have been there that the news will have reached them about the calamity that had just taken place in the Atlantic Ocean.