Ancestral Glimpses » Henry Howland (± 1565-1635)

Personal data Henry Howland 

• He was born about 1565 in Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, ENGLAND.
• He was christened about 1565 in Fen Stanton, Huntingshire, ENGLAND.
• He died on May 17, 1635 in Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, ENGLAND.
• He is buried on May 19, 1635 in Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, ENGLAND.
• A child of John Howland and Emma Revell
• This information was last updated on November 24, 2017.

Household of Henry Howland

He is married to Anne Margaret Aires.

They got married on April 26, 1600 at Ely, Cambridge, ENGLANDSt. Mary's Church.

Child(ren):

1. Humphrey Howland  1596-1646 
2. Margaret Howland  ± 1601-> 1646
3. John Howland  ± 1599-???? 
4. Henry J Howland  1604-1671 
5. Simon Howland  ± 1605-± 1634
6. George Howland  ± 1608-1643
7. Hannah Howland  ± 1609-????
8. William Howland  ± 1610-< 1646
9. Arthur Howland  ± 1600-1675 

Notes about Henry Howland

REF NEXUS11:205. Henry Howland was the ancestor of 4 or more presidents.
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Henry Howland, Sr. is alleged to be the ancestor of many famous people including Sir Winston Churchill, President Calvin Coolidge, President George Bush, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mrs. Edith Carow Roosevelt, and Humphrey Bogart.

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Source: RootsWeb's World Connect Project 8/2000

Henry Howland was a yeoman, (a farmer who cultivates his own land), who spent his entire life in or near the town of Fen Stanton. Since he was born there, his parents must have moved from the village of Newport Pond in the adjoining county of Essex shortly after their marriage in 1560.

Henry Howland, of the Parish of Fenny Stanton, Huntingdonshire, died at Fen Stanton, 17 May 1635. His wife, Margaret, buried at Fen Stanton, 31 Jul 1629. Fen Stanton is about 1-2 miles south of St. Ives, near to Huntingdon, in the area northwest of Cambridge. Huntingdonshire county no longer exists.

The identity of this family is proved by the probate records of their son, Humphrey Howland, a draper, who settled in St. Swithin's Parish, in London. In his will proved in 1646 by his second wife, Ann (Mary), Humphrey Howland mentioned his brothers, Arthur, John, Simon and Henry, and his sister, Margaret, wife of Richard Phillips. This ties the family to Fenstanton.

They had seven children: Arthur, John, Margaret, Humphrey, George, Simon and Henry. In 1963, the John Howland Society of Plymouth, MA, erected a bronze tablet in the Fenstanton Church "In memory of HENRY HOWLAND who was bur. in the churchyard of this parish on 17 May 1635 - Father of John Howland a pilgrim to America on the Mayflower 1620." Erected by the Pilgrim Hohn Howland Society 17 May 1966.

The "Old Colony Howlands" descend from his three sons: Arthur, John and Henry. Arthur and Henry came in either the FORTUNE in 1621 or the ANN 1623 (per "Certain Comeovers" by Henry Howland Crapo, Volume I.) Their brother John was the first of the family to reach America, coming on the original MAYFLOWER.

"Howland " was a location phrase for 'Land at the ancient bur. mound '. This alluded to a prehistoric tomb where the ancestors farmed. The Howland coat-of-arms, granted in 1584, has two black bars below three blackrampant lions on a silver shield.

Three sons, Humphrey, George, and Simon were merchants in London. Arthur, John, and Henry came to America.

Henry was md. twice, first to a woman named Ann who lived in the same area and then to Margaret Aires from Essex. Each marriage produced five children. Three of the five offspring of his first marriage would go to the new world and become part of the Plymouth Plantation of Cape Cod Bay. A son by his second wife also joined them. Some references say that all sailed on the Mayflower but, although they apparently were early arrivals there, only one can be confirmed by the records of that colony as being among the passengers.

NOTE: I believe that Ann and Margaret are one and the same as do various other genealogists. DLP.

Note: While there is no verification, possibly due to the state of panic caused in England at this time by the epidemic of plague (Black Death) at the time, many researchers believe that most of the Howland family that stayed in England died of the plague and possibly the only survivors were the three brothers (John, Arthur and Henry) who immigrated to America.

Famous descendants: Presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Milhous Nixon, and George Herbert Walker Bush.

More about Henry Howland:
Ancestral File Number: 8WRK-72676
Burial: 19 May 1635, Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England676
Occupation: Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England; Occupation: Yeoman676

More about Anne Margaret Aires:
Ancestral File Number: 8WRK-87676
Burial: 31 Jul 1629, Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England676

Children of Henry Howland and Anne Aires are:
7458 i. John Howland, born 1592 in Scrooby, Essex/Ferstanton, Huntingshire, England; died 23 Feb 1671/72 in Rocky Nook, Kingston Co., Massachusetts; md. Elizabeth Tilley 25 Mar 1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts.
ii. Henry Howland676, born 1604 in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England676; died 17 Jan 1670/71 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts676; md. Mary Sarah Newland 16 Jun 1624 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts.
More about Henry Howland:
Ancestral File Number: 3W6V-WS676
Christening: 25 Nov 1604, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England676

John Tilley, born 19 Dec 1571 in Shipton, Shropshire, England; died 11 Jan 1620/21 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Son of Robert Tilley and Elizabeth Farr. He md. 14919. Joan Hurst 10 Sep 1596 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England.
Joan Hurst, born 13 Mar 1567/68 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England; died 11 Jan 1620/21 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. She was the dau. of William Hurst and Rose Fisher.

Notes for John Tilley:
Database: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33

Burial: His plaque is inside the St. Peter and St. Paul Church of Fenstanton.

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