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Thomas Howard

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Queen Street, Cheapside, London
Death: January 02, 1814 (42)
St Paul's Churchyard, London, England
Place of Burial: Bunhill Fields Quaker Burial Ground, London
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas Howard and Mary Leatham
Husband of Elizabeth Weston Phillips
Father of Mary Head; Emma Howard; Reverend Thomas Henry Howard; Anne Elizabeth Howard; Lucy Nelson and 4 others
Brother of Elizabeth Howard; Mary Howard; Stanley Howard; Robert Lindley Howard; Ann Howard and 3 others

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About Thomas Howard

From: http://www.londonancestor.com/kents/kents-h.htm

Directory of 1794. Howard & Son, Ironmongers & Braziers, 11, St. Paul's Church yard

From: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/16398/pages/1274/page.pdf

THE Partnership between Stanley and Thomas Howard,

St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, Ironmongers, is dissolved by mutual Consent, taking place from the 30th Day of June last —All Debts will be paid and received by Thomas Howard, who continues the Business.—Witness our Hands this 24th of August 1810 , Stanley Howard. Thos. Howard.

Thomas Howard married Elizabeth Phillips at the Quaker Meeting in Warmsworth, Yorkshire (near Doncaster) on 5th March, 1798. (The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 83). This is one of the earliest Friends Meeting Houses in the UK, established by Elizabeth Phillips's maternal great-grandfather William Aldam, whose father Thomas Aldam was a close friend of George Fox.

Lordsmeade extract: (http://www.lordsmeade.freeserve.co.uk/elizhoward-fragments.pdf)

Thomas, second son of Thomas and Mary Howard married Elizabeth Phillips of Doncaster in 1798. Their family of two sons and seven daughters are all living, except one daughter. Thomas Howard Junr. died in the midst of an active life, carrying on a large retail business in Ironmongery and plated ware in St. Paul’s Churchyard, leaving his widow with nine children, the eldest a girl under fifteen years of age. Elizabeth Thomas Howard went to live at Ipswich with her family in 1821 or 1822 and continued there until her death in 1853 having been thirty-nine years a widow.

Note that the winter of 1813-14, when Thomas died at the beginning of January 1814, was exceptionally cold, with the Thames freezing over.

The children of Thomas and Elizabeth Howard of St Paul’s Churchyard:-

Caroline, married William Matravers of Westbury

Mary, married Jeremiah Head of Ipswich

Emma, married Henry Alexander of Ipswich. Henry Alexander is deceased, the widow with one son and daughter went to Australia. The son is since deceased and the daughter married.

Thomas Henry, born in 1805 is a clergyman, married and has a large family.

Ann Elizabeth, married Charles Bolton, Lieutenant in the Navy

Lucy, married Richard Nelson, Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers.

Edward, not a satisfactory character

Isabella, married to the dissatisfaction of the family and not now living.

Sarah, of weak intellect from infancy.

For date of death, and age, see http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U7PPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA199&lpg=PA199&...

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Thomas Howard's Timeline

1771
February 16, 1771
Queen Street, Cheapside, London
1800
September 28, 1800
St Paul's Churchyard, London, England
1801
1801
1802
June 1802
 St Pauls Church Yard, London, England
1804
March 14, 1804
St Paul's Churchyard, London, England
1806
1806
St Paul's Churchyard, London
1808
January 8, 1808
St Paul'S Churchyard, London, England
1811
July 3, 1811
London
1812
1812
London