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Home ==> Surnames ==> Howe
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| Surname origins | Location Derived from the location where an ancestor originated |
| Meaning | i+ii)
'Dweller near a hill, hillock, burial-mound' or ii) 'Dweller near a heel or projecting ridge of land' |
| Geographic origins | i)
Norfolk, North Yorkshire and in the former area covered by the Danelaw ii) Very common in Northumberland, Durham, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire |
| Language | i+ii)
Old Norse or ii) Old English |
| Sources | i)
Cottle, Basil, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (London:
Penguin UK, 1967) ii) Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958) |
| My
line of the Howe family can be traced back to the Yorkshire village
of Owston in the first half of the 19th century where William Guest
Howe and Anne Eyre married in 1824 and before that to the village
of Brierley where William was born in 1799. William worked on the
land as an agricultural labourer and later farmer. Their granddaughter - my great grandmother - Cassandra Paine Marland Howe was born in Manchester in 1871 where her father had settled. In 1901 she married a schoolteacher Everard Gilbert Bradley in Meliden in Wales. They had 6 children. |
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