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Title: Howel/Howell of Shropshire & Staffordshire
Post by: moltom on Sunday 18 September 05 14:36 BST (UK)

Seeking fellow researchers of this surname in Staffordshire (Brewood, Codsall, Chillington, Shareshill, Bushbury, etc) and Shropshire (Albrighton and surrounding districts).
 
Apparently, the Howells were a well-known Catholic family in Staffordshire. 

Moltom

Title: Re: Howel/Howell of Shropshire & Staffordshire
Post by: Doughty on Tuesday 05 December 06 16:33 GMT (UK)

I have a Harriet Howell born Wolverhampton 1863, Daughter of Richard Howell and louisa Derricot in my tree.  She married Noah Fern

Title: Re: Howel/Howell of Shropshire & Staffordshire
Post by: moltom on Tuesday 05 December 06 18:56 GMT (UK)

Dear Doughty,

Thanks for replying.  Your names are not familiar, but I'll make a note of them just in case.

Good luck with your research.

Moltom

Title: Re: Howel/Howell of Shropshire & Staffordshire
Post by: wrjones on Tuesday 05 December 06 22:55 GMT (UK)

I have a Samuel Howell born in Shrewsbury in c 1875,who was the first husband of an Alice Dax.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham

Title: Re: Howel/Howell of Shropshire & Staffordshire
Post by: moltom on Wednesday 06 December 06 19:01 GMT (UK)

Thanks for your reply, William.

My ancestor was Mary Howell, who married John Chopping in Brewood in 1756.

Other Howells in the surrounding areas include John, Peter, Ann, etc. but I cannot make any connections. 

It seems Mary Howell and John Chopping moved to Brewood shortly before their marriage there, and that is why it is proving difficult to find Mary's parents and siblings.

Moltom