Category: Howes
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Tracing the wider Howes diaspora via DNA Back to 1600s, forwards by train
Cutlock’s two DNA articles so far have only mentioned Y-DNA testing in the Notes section. Now it’s time to justify the cost of a 37 marker Y-DNA test with FamilyTreeDNA, shortly followed by an upgrade to 111 markers {1}. The initial test {2}, actioned a little later than the more popular autosomal test from Ancestry,…
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Illustrating a strong objection to war Further conchie connections
A further insight into the stance grandfather Sydney Howes took during the first world war has been found, thanks to a social media reminder of the use of address-based searches on the 1921 census, for free. Online access to the full records is currently only available through Findmypast, via pay per view or a high-cost…
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Making the conscientious objectors count Comfort in a dissenting community?
Cyril Pearce, the key expert on ‘Conscience and dissent in Britain during the First World War’, gave a talk on this subject the other day for the Working Class Movement Library. This is a subject of particular interest in Cutlock towers due to grandfather Sydney Howes’ appearance in the database that Pearce has compiled, as…
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Besthorpe Howes family roots
[toc] Besthorpe is the ancestral home of the Howes family. The line can be traced to this village/parish south west of Norwich, potentially as far back as the 15th century. See Bottling it in Besthorpe for more about family connections to the area, and specific places such as The Carr, Bottle House, with census descriptions…
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Bottling it in Besthorpe Giving the Howes line a home
Of all the ancestral home towns and villages, that of the direct Howes line, namely Besthorpe in Norfolk, has been the most neglected to date. This stands alongside the minimal details held on the last known family member to spend all his life there, 3x great grandfather James Howes. The direct line can be quite…
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Newspapers ablaze with minor family insights Passing educational references, and an indepth story
After some time without, getting access to the British Newspaper Archive – part of a (half price) FindMyPast Pro subscription – raises the dilemma of where to start researching. Perhaps firstly with those individuals in the tree most likely to appear in the news, and then close relatives to see if any notices, in the…