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Parents unidentified. John Howse married twice (probably). 1) unknown 2) Alice, perhaps Lloyd.
It has been claimed, without evidence, that the Rev. John Howse was son of Thomas Hulse and Alice Hinton of Norbury, Cheshire. There is no reason to think this is correct. There is no scrap of evidence linking this man to Cheshire or the Hulse family.
There was a John House who married Alice Lloyd, but it is unknown if this is the same person. Note: There are several different spellings for the family surname.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206721774/john-howes “Rev. John House was born at Cossington, Leicestershire, some 95 miles northwest of London, in 1564.” No citation is provided for the birth.
Birth seen as October 30, 1575 in Eastwell, Kent, England. No citation is provided for this birth.
Died 30 Aug 1630 John Howse (or House) is believed to have been born between 1560 and 1566 in England. He passed away 30 August 1630. He is thought by some to have married Alice Lloyd, who died about 1640.
Rev. John Howse passed away September 1, 1630 in Eastwell, Ashford Borough, County Kent, England and was buried on September 8, 1630 at the Kent and Sussex Cemetery and Crematorium in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Tunbridge Wells Borough, County Kent, England. He served as rector of theparish at Eastwell from 1603, until his death in 1630.
The Howes, Lothrops, and Linnells of Kent and London, England, and Scituate and Barnstable, Massachusetts. By Dan R. McConnell.
Published by the Cape Cod Genealogical Society Bulletin, Fall 2007. Sturgis Library
The family of Reverend John Howes [also House, Howse], whose children,kin, and friends, were brought before the Royal Court of the High Commission in London, England in the 1630’s, were persecuted and imprisoned for their religious beliefs. These beliefs also had political effects, which we will explain. Some fled to America, first to Scituate, then Barnstable, both of which were in Plymouth Colony in that time, aplace friendly to their Separatist beliefs. Others remained in England and played a key role in the emergence of non-conformist churches, the disputes in Parliament, and the English Civil War.
In the 17 th Century, for ordinary people, a lengthy confinement in London prisons such as Newgate, Clink, Fleet or Bridewell was tantamountto a death sentence due to crowded, filthy, disease-ridden conditions. Such dangerous confinement, for religious non-conformity, under the arbitrary rules of the High Commission, became a driving force for like minded people to flee to America. English resentment to the many breaches of Common Law led to the rise of Parliament in opposition, and ultimately to the abolishment of the High Commission in 1641 and the Civil war in the 1640’s. After the “Glorious Revolution’ in 1688, the English Bill of Rights was enacted to specifically forbid such practices, echoed famously in our own Bill of Rights, the First Ten Amendments to the U.S Constitution.
For the Howes family and their kin, the road to prison and to America began in Kent. The Reverend John Howes matriculated at St. John’s College, Cambridge in 1590. He is listed in the Alumni Cantabrigienes assuch with the further note that he was rector at Eastwell, Kent in 1610. In the Bishop’s Transcripts for Canterbury he is also given as Curate for Egerton, 1592-6. From his location at the time of the baptism of his children, he is likely to have also been Curate for Eastwell from 1603 to his death in 1630. He performed the marriage ceremony forhis daughter Hannah, in her marriage to Rev. John Lothrop [also Lothropp] in Eastwell, 16 October, 1610. In his will, dated 1630, he is described as Minister, Eastwell. In his will, his wife’s name is given as Alice.
Children of the Reverend John Howes:
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1565
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England (United Kingdom)
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1590 |
1590
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Of Eastwell, Kent, England
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1594 |
May 5, 1594
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Egerton, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
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1596 |
April 11, 1596
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Egerton, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
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1601 |
1601
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Eastwell, Kent, England
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1603 |
June 19, 1603
Age 38
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Eastwell, Eastwell, Kent, England
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1603
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Eastwell, Kent, England
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1605 |
August 25, 1605
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Eastwell, Tenterden, Kent, England
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1607 |
August 31, 1607
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Of, Ashford, Kent, England
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