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Hello. I have been working on my family tree since I was about 7 years old, scribbling down a list of names that I was so amazed that my (Great) Uncle Bert knew. My tree is mainly from the Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England. I have a few branches off to Ireland, a Cornish twig, and a Dorset twig amongst others ... then I have my paternal grandmother's family ... the 'strange side'...
A couple of years ago I made contact with a distant relative, via the internet, who had a copy of a scribbled family tree, written in the early 1900s. It went back to the 1480s. Happily it confirmed three generations I had already found on the IGI. Whilst taking all this with a pinch of salt, over the last few years I have been trying to substantiate each item on this piece of paper. One person has suggested to me that it was compiled using dates derived from Wills, and that is now certainly looking like the case.
I was searching for HOW or HOWE on the internet for the nth time when I found a mention of Frances HOW nee RODD. I had found her marriage to 'my' Alexander HOW (one of a long line of Alexander HOWs!) on the IGI, but had got no further. Could 'my' Frances RODD be a co-heiress from Herefordshire? No, surely not! So I researched the RODDs, finding the very knowledgable Michael Faraday, and yes, it looks like she is the same one. I have gone off on tangents, looking at the WHITNEYs, the LUCYs, the NEALEs, and the UVEDALEs. All of a sudden it doesn't seem so absurd that the HOW tree that I had started off with includes/or could include the HOWE, GROBHAM, LE SCROPE, THYNNE and CURZON families. Frances RODD, as a 'co-heiress', albeit the youngest, could hardly be married off to just any old person from Battersea.
I am interested in finding out more about Frances RODD and her family. I have found some tantalising documents on British History online (bless them!) which dovetail in with a Will, and an Administration, the King of Portugal, and a Clergyman ... but, ah, my head is spinning ... the more you find out, the more confusing it gets ... genealogy is seldom straightforward! I have found a possible Will for Frances, but it does not mention anything that ties in - yet, perhaps by that point in her life it didn't need to? My aim is to explore further documents surrounding Frances, her two sisters Lucy PRICE and Anna Sophia WARDOUR, and her parents; with the vain hope that somewhere along the line I'll find a tangent which explains away some of my HOW problems! No doubt I will find something else even more extraordinary!
27 Feb 2008
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the Will of Alexander Howe, Husbandman of West Buckland, Somerset: 28 Nov 1592 - PROB 11/80 National Archives, Kew
the Will of John Howe, Yeoman of West Buckland, Somerset: 13 Feb 1626 - PROB 11/148 National Archives, Kew
"Alexander Howe of Devon, Exeter College, matriculated 20 Jan 1597/8, aged 15; BA from Corpus Christi College, 7 June 1602, MA 2 May 1606, BD 25 May 1615; rector of Draycott, Staffordshire, 1614; vicar of Carswell [Caverswall], 1618; canon of Lichfield, 1627." from: Joseph Foster's 'Alumni Oxoniensis'.
"How, Rev. Alexander. Rector of Draycott-le-Moors; Preb. of Ulveton, Lichfield, 26 Aug. 1626; d. before the Restoration" from: 'Bibliotheca Staffordiensis', 1894.
"Vol. xxiv. p. 106. The Humble Petition of Divers Merchants, Masters of Shipps, and others, who have Susteyned Losses by the Portugalls." from: 'State Papers, 1655: March (2 of 8)', A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, volume 3: December 1654 - August 1655 (1742), pp. 195-219. - British History Online
"Howe, Alexander Commissioner (Plantations) 1 Dec. 1660." from: 'Alphabetical lists of officials', Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 3: Officials of the Boards of Trade 1660-1870 (1974), pp. 86-121. - British History Online
the Will of Alexander How, Gentleman of Battersea, Surrey: 15 Mar 1682/18 Jan 168(5)? - PROB 11/384 National Archives, Kew
"Howe's Petition referred to Judges. The Petition of Alexander How, an Infant, by Frances How Widow." from: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 18: 21 February 1707', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 18: 1705-1709 (1802), pp. 247-49. - British History Online
the Administration of Alexander How of Battersea: 1710 - PROB 5/3021 National Archives, Kew
the Will of Frances How, Widow, of Poplar: 9 May 1735 - PROB 11/671 National Archives, Kew
"Stafford Briscoe. On the 1st of December I received a letter from one Mr. Alexander How, an attorney, in Bearbinder Lane." from The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t17600116-24, Elizabeth Mac Call, theft: extortion, 16th January, 1760.
a Lawyer precedent book, with part of a log, property of Alexander How: 1765 - HCA 30/714 National Archives, Kew
the Will of Alexander How, on Board the Worcester East India Man of Saint Bartholomew the less near West Smithfield , City of London: 7 Mar 1781 - PROB 11/1075 National Archives, Kew
