The history of the Howard side of our family is a story I’ve been wanting to write for a
long time. My mother’s maiden name was Lucie Howard and this is a history of her father’s
ancestors. I’ve read about them and have been interested in them since I was a teenager. But
the most that seems to have been written is a page or two about the sinking of the Birkenhead.
My Grandmother Howard’s journal contains a couple of paragraphs about John Richards
Howard and this particular shipwreck, and this she copied from the encyclopedia. Other
members of the family have found bits and pieces about this story and have brought them and
shared them at family reunions. So I started with a somewhat bare skeleton, and a disjointed
one at that. I also had a book of family group sheets that I had copied from my mother’s book of
remembrance when I was fourteen years old. These sheets carried the Howard line back to the
1500’s to the Dukes of Norfolk in England and even further which went back to Lady Godiva.
There have been a lot of “begats” in all those represented years on these sheets, and for most of
my life, most of the names have not meant much to me. In writing this history I’ve gone
carefully through all the “begats”, and just with names and dates, stories have been unfolding
before my eyes.
I found myself relating to these women who lost so many children at birth, or hurting for
those men who lost their wives at such early ages. I included many of these dates and
relationships and found a story in them. I don’t know how interesting this will be to everyone,
but I hope my own family (who I have written this for) will be touched in their hearts as I have
been. This history begins with my great-great-grandfather who lost his life when the Birkenhead
sank in 1852, and continues with the story of his son, my great-grandfather, John Richards
Howard (born in 1841), who was one of the few who survived this great disaster. Because of the
genealogy work that John Richards Howard did, I have used his hand-written book of names and
dates to tell the story of these Howards who lived in the 1500’s. In the end I have tried to
explain the physical and spiritual connection, which I feel with them all.
I need to thank my sisters Joyce Ridge and Cheril Snow who have kept copies of these
genealogy sheets and have worked feverishly themselves to verify all the physical connections
our great-grandfather made. Joyce has many of the original records and letters and journals, so
she was the logical person for me to interview for this project.
She has spent hours with me as
we followed all the “begats” over and over again as they were written by John Richards Howard
until we understood who actually begat whom! She also helped me decipher some of the handwritten letters. A short conversation with Uncle Lloyd Howard (my mother’s only living sibling)
gave me a few very interesting glances into the character of John Richards Howard, which I have
included. I’ve used books, magazines, tour-guide books, journals, obituaries, certificates and the
internet to fill in the blanks, but the best experience of all was when we lived in Scotland for
three years and were able to walk on the same soil as these ancestors. I have a great deal of love
for most of them. A few didn’t leave a very good impression, but maybe five centuries of
repenting have brought them around!
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Line of Descent Between
Richard Howard and Cecile JAMES
Richard
Howard
Martha
Richards
B: 18 Jan 1813
, , , United Kingd
M: 5 Aug 1840
A, H, England
D: 26 Feb 1852
D, , South Africa
B: 18 Mar 1815
PSM, H, England
D: 12 Apr 1843
S, H, England
John Richards
Howard
Harriet Spinks
BROOKS
B: 18 Sep 1841
, , , United Kingd
M: 2 Nov 1867
SLC, SL, Utah
D: 26 Apr 1927
, , , United States
B: 24 Dec 1843
o, M, N, England
D: 10 Sep 1883
, , , United States
Richard Fitz Alan
HOWARD
John Fitz Alan
HOWARD
Sarah Drucilla
SEARS
Mary Fitz Alan
HOWARD
Martha Fitz Alan
HOWARD
Alice Fitz Alan
HOWARD
Josephine Mowbray
HOWARD
B: 3 Apr 1868
PsC, SL, Utah
D: 5 Jul 1884
B: 27 Nov 1869
, , , United States
M: 26 Sep 1895
, , , United States
D: 17 Jul 1953
S, SL, Utah, USA
B: 20 Dec 1874
, , , United States
D: 11 Feb 1951
, , , United States
B: 26 May 1871
, , , United States
D: 28 Jul 1871
B: 22 Mar 1872
, , , United States
D: 22 Mar 1872
SL, SL, Utah
B: 25 Jan 1875
, , , United States
D: 10 Nov 1924
SLC, SL, UT
B: 31 Jul 1877
, , , United States
D: 19 Dec 1962
Ogden, W, Utah
Marguerite Mowbray
Stillborn
Howard Twin
Howard
Stillborn Howard Twin
B: 4 Oct 1879
, , , United States
D: 21 Feb 1925
, , , United States
B: Nov 1880
SL, SL, Utah
D: Nov 1880
SL, SL, Utah
B: 1880
SLC, SL, UT
D: 1880
Gordon Maxwell
HOWARD
Lucie
HOWARD
Cecil Syme
JAMES
Jessie
HOWARD
John Richards
HOWARD
son (Stillborn)
HOWARD
Marcus Stuart
HOWARD
B: 13 Mar 1899
, , , United States
D: 15 Jul 1979
, , , United States
B: 2 Mar 1900
, , , United States
M: 7 Oct 1925
, , , United States
D: 27 Dec 1980
, , , United States
B: 14 Mar 1900
, , , United States
D: 8 Jun 1988
, , , United States
B: 29 Sep 1901
, , , United States
D: 22 Nov 1994
K, , Utah, USA
B: 7 Feb 1903
B, D, Utah, USA
D: 31 May 1942
A, B, NM, USA
B: Mar 1905
B, D, Utah, USA
D: Mar 1905
B: 4 Jun 1906
, , , United States
D: 29 May 1996
, , , United States
Winifred
HOWARD
Alan Sears
HOWARD
Richard Brooks
HOWARD
Lora
HOWARD
Lloyd Ellsworth
HOWARD
William Sears
HOWARD
B: 5 Aug 1908
C, Cook, I, USA
D: 26 Oct 1934
SLC, SL, Utah
B: 27 Jun 1910
C, Cook, I, USA
D: 19 Dec 1933
D, D, C, USA
B: 2 Aug 1912
M, Cook, I, USA
D: 2 Aug 1912
M, Cook, Illinois
B: 11 Aug 1913
, , , United States
D: 16 Jul 1935
SLC, SL, Utah
B: 6 Dec 1916
M, Cook, Illinois
D: 24 Sep 2006
, , , United States
B: 14 Sep 1918
M, Cook, I, USA
D: 14 Sep 1918
M, Cook, Illinois
Richard Alan
JAMES
Edwin Howard
JAMES
Lois Joan
JAMES
Thomas Arthur
JAMES
Joyce
JAMES
Cheril
JAMES
Cecile
JAMES
B: 8 Jul 1926
, , , United States
B: 27 Jul 1927
, , , United States
D: 28 Jul 1927
, , , United States
B: 1 Aug 1928
, , , United States
B: 11 May 1930
, , , United States
B: 25 Jun 1932
, , , United States
B: 21 Apr 1937
, , , United States
B: 21 Jul 1941
, , , United States