John Howland

Howland Branch of Surrey. Its origin was the Howland Branch of Essex in Newport Pond, Essex.

Baptism

John Howland was baptized 10 Aug 1541 in Newport Pond, London, England.[1][2]

Marriage

About 1560, probably in London, John Howland married Emme Revell, the only daughter of Nicholas Ryvell and Audrey Michenar, and the sister and heir of Robert Ryvell, Citizen of London.[3] His wife was living in January but had died by September 1614.[2][4]

Issues

John Howland and Emme Revell had five children according to the baptism records but had only three known surviving children according to the Howland pedigree in The Visitations of the County of Surrey as follows:[1]

1. Annis Houland (Howland) was baptized on 4 September 1572 at St Margaret Moses, Little Friday Street in the City of London, London, England. She was not mentioned in the probate records between 1585 and 1608, so she probably died young before 1585.
2. John (Johannes) Houland (Howland), son and heir,[1][3] was baptized on before 6 Oct 1574 at St Margaret Moses, Little Friday Street in the City of London, London, England and died before 21 March 1655 in Southwark, Surrey, England.
3. Elizabeth Houland (Howland) was baptized on 25 November 1576 at St Margaret Moses, Little Friday Street in the City of London, London, England.[5] She was not mentioned in the probate records between 1585 and 1608, so she probably died young before 1585.
4. Margarett (Margareta) Houland (Howland) was baptized on 9 March 1577/78 at St Margaret Moses, Little Friday Street in the City of London, London, England.[6] She married Eusebie Catesby, of Castor, Northamptonshire before 1601,[1] and she died before 7 December 1624 in Castor, Northamptonshire, England.
5. Nicholas (Nicholaus) Houland (Howland)[1] was baptized on 15 November 1579 at St Margaret Moses, Little Friday Street in City of London, London, England. He died before 17 May 1612 in London, England.

Between 1585 and 1608, the probate records of his four brothers, his mother and his wife confirmed there were John Howland, Nicholas Howland, and Margaret (Howland) Catesby, only three known surviving children of John and Emme Howland.

For example, in 1608, Giles Howland willed his two nephews, John Howland and Nicholas Howland "one blacke cloake" and their sister "Margaret Catesbye a blacke gowne of eighteene shillinge the yard and unto [blank] Catesbye her husband one blacke cloake of eighteene shillinges the yarde." It proves that they were only three surviving children of John Howland, the brother of Giles Howland.

Another example, in 1607, Robert Howland willed his brother, John Howland "the some of ffortie poundes, and I doe forgive him all such somes of money as he shall owe unto me at the tyme of my deathe," and he willed his sister-in-law, "Mistris Emme Howland wife of my saide brother John, my two greaten ewe white sylver bowles." Robert Howland also willed his two nephews, "John Howlande, the sonne of my said brother John, the sume of twentye poundes," and "Nicholas Howland my godsonne the other sonne of my said brother John, the sume of one hundred poundes, and also I give unto the saide Nicholas my god sonne all my chambers and lodginge in Grayes Inne aforesaide and all my estate and interest of and in the same. And to make the saide Nicholas Howland capable of the same, I have admitted him (in Maister Chaworths Reading) into the socyetie of Grayes Inne to be one of the fellowshippe of the said howse." He also willed his niece, "Margarett Catesbye, the daughter of my saide brother John the some of twenty poundes" and "Roberte Thomas and Margarett Catesbye the nowe children of the saide Margarett the some of tenne poundes a peice; the same to be delivered to Eusebia Catesbye theire ffather, for them and to theire use, uppon his acquittance testifying his receipte thereof."

It is consistent with the Howland pedigree during the 1623 visitation of Surrey County, and it proves that they were only three surviving children of John and Emme Howland.[7] This Howland branch of Essex and Surrey ends in 1655.

Death

John Howland died on 31 January 1611 in Whitechapel, London, Middlesex, England.

Burial

John Howland was buried on 15 January 1611 at St. Mary's, White Chapel in London, Middlesex, England.[2][8]

Estate

The estate of John Howland was administered by his son John Howland on 10 September 1614 and then by Robert Catesby on 21 June 1626.[2]

Sources

1. Surrey Archaeological Collections: Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County. Vol. XI. London: Boworth & Co. Limited, 1893, p. 318. Print.
2. Fenland Notes and Queries: A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenland, in the Counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Peterborough, Eng: G.C. Caster, 1903, p. 329 - 335. Print.
3. Wilson, H.B. A History of the Parish of St. Laurence Pountney, London, Including from Documents hitherto Unpublished, an Account of Corpus Christi (or Pountney) College, in the Said Parish. London: Rivington, 1831, p. 235.
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 152, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1998, p. 462, 463.
5. Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: CLC/464/MS12003. St Margaret Moses, Little Friday Street, 1558-1812. Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31281_a101977-00007.
6. Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: CLC/464/MS12003. St Margaret Moses, Little Friday Street, 1558-1812. Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31281_a101977-00007.
7. Bannerman, W. Bruce. The Visitations of the County of Surrey: Made and Taken in the Years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; 1572 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1623 by Samuel Thompson, Windsor Herald, and Augustin Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant, Marshals and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms. London: 1899, p. 146.
8. Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 March 2019), memorial page for Lord John Howland, III (10 Aug 1541 – 31 Jan 1611), Find A Grave Memorial no. 132791186, citing St Leonard Churchyard, Streatham, London Borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England; Maintained by A AAA American (contributor 47337652).

See also:

• The Howland Homestead (Society of the Descendants of Pilgrim John Howland, of the Ship Mayflower, Boston, 1911) Page 5: “The Ancestry of John Howland of the Mayflower.”
• Howland, Charles Roscoe, 1871-1946. A Brief Genealogical And Biographical Record of Charles Roscoe Howland, Brothers, And Forebears. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Pub. Co., 1946, pp. 3-4.