Ancestral Glimpses » Thomas Howells (± 1749-1821)

Persoonlijke gegevens Thomas Howells 

• Hij is geboren rond 1749 in Radnorshire, WALES.
• (AFN) : 1QVF-6PD.
• Hij is overleden op 25 april 1821 in Hay, Herefordshire, WALES.
• Hij is begraven in St Mary's Church, Hay, Brecon, WALES.
• Een kind van George Howells
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 12 januari 2018.

Gezin van Thomas Howells

Hij is getrouwd met Susannah Beasley.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 6 september 1772 te London, London, ENGLAND.

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
Name: Susannah Beesley
Spouse Name: Thomas Howells
Record Type: Banns
Event Date: 6 Sep 1772
Parish: Bloomsbury St George
Borough: Camden
Register Type: Parish Register

Kind(eren):

1. Edwin Howells  
2. Ann Susannah Howells  1773-1852
3. Elizabeth Sarah Howells  1775-????
4. Mary Elizabeth Howells  1776-1777
5. Harriet Howells  1778-1778
6. Ann Howells  1778-1856 
7. Thomas George Howells  1779-1781
8. William Howells  1780-1795
9. Elizabeth Hunt Howells  1781-1781
10. Priscilla Howells  1782-1782
11. Henrietta Jones Howells  1783-1864 
12. Henry Charles Howells  1784-1855
13. John Howells  1786-1786
14. Joseph William Howells  1783-1858 

Notities over Thomas Howells

Emigrated to US in mid-1808. Left from Liverpool? and arrived in Baltimore? on the Ship Albert. Wool manufacturer and Quaker. Howells had visited America on business soon after the War of Independence, interviewed General George Washington, but refused the First President's offer of land at a cheap rate near the new capital named after himself.

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Thomas Howells

THOMAS was clearly by no means as distinguished a clockmaker as his brother and in fact was never apprenticed to a Freeman of the Clockmakers Company.
In 1772 he md. SUSANNAH BEASLEY born in the parish of St. Mary, Islington, immediately north of St. Katherine-by-the-Tower, and they lived in Fetter Lane in St. Andrew Holborn parish. In 1776, for an unknown reason, they moved to Hay, where both Baillie and Peate6 list him as "watchmaker", though this may well mean "watch repairer". He did not continue long at that trade, for by 1780 he was established in the town as a woollen manufacturer. His subsequent career has been dealt with previously.2,3 In this connection, his clockmaking experience would be invaluable, for as is pointed out by Ashmore7, there were at that time no professional makers of wool-weaving machinery, which had to be mainly constructed by local carpenters, the fabrication of the gear-wheels being well within the capacity of clockmakers.

George Howells
It only remains to refer to GEORGE HOWELLS, the maker (or perhaps retailer) of the Deerfold long-case clock. William Dean Howells purchased it from Susannah Hooper of Hereford, great-grand-dau. of THOMAS HOWELLS, probably when he visited the Welsh border area in 1883. In an unpublished letter to his sister Aurelia, written in 1903, he states that the clock was made by Susannah Hooper's great-great uncle (an obvious error for her great-great-great uncle) making the GEORGE HOWELLS born in Hay in 1720 the brother of JOHN HOWELLS (Senior) of Leintwardine and uncle of THOMAS and WILLIAM.
Thus part of the American tradition is undoubtedly true, since the craft of clockmaking persisted through at least four generations of Howells. However, in view of the Leintwardine births, THOMAS and WILLIAM were almost certainly English and not Welsh.

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