Howe Surname History

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SURNAME MEANING
An English habitational surname denoting a person who lived near a man-made mound or burial barrow, derived from the Viking word haugr or the Old English word hoh.

It can also be an English habitational surname denoting a person from Howe, near Norwich, co. Kent or Howe, in north Yorkshire.

EARLY BEARERS
William de Ho – Essex - 1121
Marjorie de Howes – Leicestershire - 1167
Roger del Howes - Cambridgeshire – 1273
Richard del Howes – Cambridgeshire – 1273
Letitia atte How – England – 1313
Robert atte Hou – Yorkshire – 1333

NOBLE TITLES HELD
The Howe baronetcy of Compton in the County of Gloucester was created in the Baronetage of England in 1660 for Sir John Howe, Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire. His son, Sir Richard Grobham Howe, 2nd Baronet, sat in the House on Commons in the second half of the 17th century

The Howe Baronetcy of Cold Barwick the County of Wiltshire was created in the Baronetage of England in 1660 for Sir George Grobham Howe, Member of Parliament for Hindon. His son Sir James Howe, 2nd Baronet was also MP for Hindon.

Scrope Howe (1648-1713) of Langar Hall, co. Notts, Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire, was created Viscount Howe and Baron Glenawley in the Peerage of Ireland in 1713

Richard Howe, 4th Viscount Howe, was a British naval officer who became Admiral of the Fleet, having served in the War of Austrian Succession, Seven Years’ War, and American Revolution, was created 1st Earl Howe in 1788

Sir William Howe (1729-1814), 5th Viscount, Commander-in-Chief, North America, 1775-78, Governor of Plymouth, 1808-14.

NOTABLES
Elias Howe Jr. (1819-1867) was an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.

Mary Howe (1870–1952) was an American operatic soprano, well known in Germany in the 1880s and 1890s.

Gordon Howe (1928-2016) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1946 to 1980, he played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA); his first 25 seasons were spent with the Detroit Red Wings. Nicknamed "Mr. Hockey", Howe is often considered the most complete player to ever play the game and one of the greatest of all time.

John Howe (1630-1705) was an English Puritan theologian. He served briefly as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell.

John Howe (1754-1835) was a loyalist printer during the American Revolution, a printer and Postmaster in Halifax, a spy prior to the War of 1812

Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876) was an American physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind.

Robert Howe (1732-1786) was a Continental Army general from the Province of North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.

Lieutenant-General Emanuel Scrope Howe (c. 1663-1709), of The Great Lodge, Alice Holt Forest Hampshire, was an English diplomat, army officer, and Member of Parliament.

EARLY SETTLERS
Rice Howe– Virginia – 1618
Daniel Howe – Massachusetts – 1634
Isacke Howe – New England – 1635
Jeremie Howe - New England – 1635
Ephraim Howe – Boston – 1635
Elizabeth Howe – Boston – 1635
Edward Howe – Boston – 1635
William Howe – Boston – 1635
Sarah Howe – Boston – 1635
Edward Howe – Nova Scotia – 1750
James Howe – Nova Scotia – 1750