Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of William Howe. He was born ca. 1540 probably in England. He married Mary Newman 4 Oct 1562 at Ivinghoe, England. She may have been the daughter of Robert Newman of Cheddington, England. They were the parents of nine known children. He was buried 21 Apr 1620. She was buried 7 Apr 1621. Both burials were at Ivinghoe. Members of the third generation started emigrating to America. Descendants lived in England and throughout the United States.

Edward Howe (d.1639) and his family emigrated from England to Lynn, Massachusetts in 1635. He was a direct ancestor of Louis Milton Howe (1896-1965), who was born in Yokohama, Japan, the son of an American dentist in practice there. Louis became a maritime insurance agent and broker in Kobe, Japan, and there married Margaret Louise James in 1921. They later moved to Singapore, and in 1930 settled near San Francisco, California. Descendants lived chiefly in California.

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