Eckert Family History

Howell

What does the name mean?

Last Name: Howell

Welsh: from the personal name Hywel "eminent", popular since the Middle Ages in particular in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king.
English: habitational name from Howell in Lincolnshire, so named from an Old English hugol "mound", "hillock" or hune "hoarhound".

George.

Great great great great great grandfather

Born 1760, England.

Convicted of stealing a horse.

Tried at Staffordshire, 1800.

Arrived 4Aug1802, aboard the "Perseus".

Married Hannah HILL, 1805, NSW, Australia.

He established the Howell Flour Mills in Parramatta and they became a well known landmark, which people would see from the river.

Died 1839

George Howells Yarramundi mill (1.5 Mb PDF) - see page 3. [from the Kurrajong - Comleroy Historical Society]

George.

Born 1805.

Parents George HOWELL and Hannah HILL.

Died 1838

On Wednesday evening last, as Mr. George Howell, one of the proprietors of the Parramatta flour mills, was assisting to place a large beam of timber in a position on one of his mills, the chain by which it was being raised broke, and the beam in its descent struck Mr. Howell on the head and killed him on ' the spot ; two others of the men employed were also severely but not dangerously hurt. Mr. Howell was a native of the Colony; he has left a wife and six children to mourn his untimely fate.

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
Saturday 3 March 1838