Rumor Mill

May as well put items here I find, they maybe red hearings but worth adding just in case anything comes of it.

Ive done a simple search - Samuel Rowe 1874 (year of his death) and came up with this -
Bedfordshire County Council web site, Baptists in Heath and Reach.
Without boring you and me its about a baptist chapel and below is a brief extract -

On Sunday 30th March 1851 a census of all churches, chapels and preaching-houses of every denomination was undertaken in England and Wales. The local results were published by Bedfordshire Historical Records Society in 1975 as Volume 54, edited by D.W.Bushby. The return for the Baptist chapel was made by Thomas Swinstead, the deacon, who noted that it had been opened in 1822 and had room for 150 sitting and 15 to 20 standing. The general congregation had been 113 in the afternoon and 55 in the evening. The average: "varys [sic] sometimes more or less than stated above". There were about 30 Sunday Scholars and the afternoon congregation included 24 children of the Sunday School who had been instructed in the morning.

H.G.Tibbutt included a partial list of early pastors in his The Baptists of Leighton Buzzard of 1963.
They include:
1843: Mr.Barnes;
1844: Mr.Dumbleton of Winslow [Buckinghamshire];
1844-1848: Mr.Mason of Northampton;
1850 onwards: William Payne of Hockliffe Street Baptists;
before 1861: Samuel Cowdy of Lake Street Baptists;
1867-1874: Samuel Rowe
1879: George Durrell of Hockliffe Street Baptists

Same area as Samuel lived, he would have been 39 years old and served here for 7 years.