he was a Master Mariner so I think he was away when the censuses were done because he wasnt in the household in the 1851 or 1861 censuses.
1861 census RG09/4444 f74 p1 on the vessel 'Jane'Joseph Rowland age 44 - Married bn Sunderland, Durham - occ Master
He owned or worked in a beer house on Chester Road. He was born about 1819 in Bishopwearmouth and died in 1880.
Have you seen this tree on Ancestry? Gives his mother as Isabella Scarthhttps://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/88586208/person/46576152105/facts?_phsrc=byC2&_phstart=successSource
According to his marriage record to Margaret Wilson
Possibly his burial at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, 17 Feb 1880
I'm looking into my ancestor Joseph Rowlands.