Thomas Howse (Hulse) - Unlnking Children Not of Thomas

Private User - I have bad news.

Rev. John Howse, of Eastwell Was not the son of Thomas Hulse, of Marbery & Astley, Esq. & Alice Hulse

At this time we have to say the Rev.’s parents are not known.
Hatte Rubenstein Blejer - you curate in this area. I’m documenting as fast as I can, and many thanks to Ken for asking such good questions.

Here are the arguments showing the Reverend (with many thousands of American descendants) has unknown parents.

In brief - John Hulse, of Astley born about 1639

In detail - https://web.pdx.edu/~davide/gene/Howse_John.htm under “biographical details,” concluding:

Therefore, as a matter of chronology one may reasonably suppose that John Howse was born, perhaps, about 1570 and that he attended university in the late 1580's. Within this context, it has also been asserted without significant substantiation that John Howse and Alice Lloyd married August 30, 1593, at Lavenham in County Suffolk. Again, no documentary source affirming this date or his wife's identity is known (although, her given name as "Alice" can be established from John's will). Even so, some researchers have associated Rev. John Howse with a minor noble family of the same name having estates at Besthorpe near Attleborough and Morningthorpe Manor near Long Stratton in County Norfolk.3 Indeed, this geography would be favorable in support of his education at Cambridge, his marriage in nearby Suffolk, and his probable Puritan sympathies, since the general region of East Anglia was a stronghold of Puritan sentiment. Moreover, due to the custom of primogenture it was common for younger sons of country gentlemen to enter the service of the Church, since they did not inherit land. Nevertheless, although these coincidences are suggestive, they remain entirely unsubstantiated and the origin of John Howse and his wife must be properly regarded as unknown.