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


Mary Ann.

Born 1807.

Parents George HOWELL and Hannah HILL.

Died 1842.


Thomas.

  Great great great great grandfather

Born 1809.

Parents George HOWELL and Hannah HILL.

Married Elizabeth CROWLEY, 1832, Windsor, NSW, Australia.

Died 1876, NSW, Australia.


Walter.

Born 1812.

Parents George HOWELL and Hannah HILL.

Died 1891.


Peter.

Born 1814.

Parents George HOWELL and Hannah HILL.

Died 1861.


Matilda.

Born 1816.

Parents George HOWELL and Hannah HILL.

Died 1891.


Vincent.

Born 1817.

Parents George HOWELL and Hannah HILL.

Died 1855.


Sarah.

Born 1818.

Parents George HOWELL and Hannah HILL.

Died 1875.


Sussannah.

Born 1821.

Parents George HOWELL and Hannah HILL.

Died 1885.


Elizabeth.

Born 1833.

Parents Thomas HOWELL and Elizabeth CROWLEY.


Thomas.

Born 1835.

Parents Thomas HOWELL and Elizabeth CROWLEY.


Mary Ann.

Born 1836.

Parents Thomas HOWELL and Elizabeth CROWLEY.


Eliza.

Born 1839.

Parents Thomas HOWELL and Elizabeth CROWLEY.


Charlotte Margaret.

  Great great great grandmother

mtDNA

Born 1842.

Parents Thomas HOWELL and Elizabeth CROWLEY.

Married Thomas EATHER, 1860, Richmond, NSW, Australia.

Died 1899.


Jane Matilda.

Born 1845 or 1848.

Parents Thomas HOWELL and Elizabeth CROWLEY.


William Napoleon.

Born 1852.

Parents Thomas HOWELL and Elizabeth CROWLEY.


Emma Sophia.

Born 1854.

Parents Thomas HOWELL and Elizabeth CROWLEY.


George Wellington.

Born 1856.

Parents Thomas HOWELL and Elizabeth CROWLEY.