George Howell 1762–1839 – Australian Royalty: Genealogy of the colony of New South Wales

George Howell, 1762–1839 (aged 77 years)

Name

George Howell

Name: George /Howell/
Given names: George
Surname: Howell

Name

George Owle

Name: George /Owle/
Given names: George
Surname: Owle

Gender Male


Birth	about 1762 Source: Ancestry.com. 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Immigration	August 4, 1802 (aged 40 years) Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Source: State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line]. Text: George Owle, one of 272 convicts transported on the ship Perseus, January 1802. Sentence details: Convicted at Stafford Assizes for a term of life. Vessel: Perseus and Coromandel. Date of Departure: January 1802. Place of Arrival: New South Wales. Source: British Newspaper Archive [database online] Citation details: Manchester Mercury Tue 26 Aug 1800 Text: ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. At Stafford assizes, which began on Wednesday the 13th instant, the following prisoners took their trials...George Owle for stealing a bay gelding the property of James Brashash, of Knightley...who were severally convicted and received sentence of death. Source: Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 Text: After his arrival in the colony, George became an overseer of Government wheelwrights at Parramatta, a position he held for at least six years. After his conditional pardon in 1806 he became a miller, building several mills at Parramatta and Richmond.
Convicted for stealing	August 1804 Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line]. Citation details: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sun 19 Aug 1804 Page 4 Text: "Yesterday five men employed in a Government boat, viz. Peter Ware, Edward Loug, Robert Lack, George Howell and Henry Hart, were taken before a Magistrate, and charged with stealing a quantity of corn out of a boat; which offence being clearly proved, they were severally ordered to be corporally punished, and the last named four sent to hard labour at Castle Hill."
Marriage	Hannah Asbury — View this family estimated 1805 (aged 43 years) New South Wales, Australia Source: Purnell, Marion (editor) Text: Probably a common law relationship
Petition to Governor	January 31, 1810 Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Citation details: Memorials To The Governor, 1810-1826 Text: "Received 31 Jan 1810" "... The humble memorial of George Howell, wheelwright at Parramatta Most respectfully states That Your Excellency's memorialist has been nine years in this colony, is free, was six years overseer of the Government wheelwright at Parramatta and always conducted himself with honesty, industry and sobriety. That in consideration to Your Excellency's long servitude and uniform good behaviour and having a wife and three helpless children, Colonel Paterson the late Lieut. Governor was so food as to give your memorialist a fourteen years lease of an allotment of ground in the Back Row Parramatta on which he has built a comfortable dwelling house at a considerable expence - the lease of which memorialist sends herewith agreeable to Your Excellency's proclamation. Memorialist therefore most humbly begs that Your Excellency will be pleased to confer on the said lease to memorialist and in return, as in duty bound, shall every pray..."
Entitled to a quantity of Cloth	July 14, 1810 New South Wales, Australia Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line]. Citation details: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sat 14 Jul 1810 Page 2 Text: "Commissary's Office, Sydney, July 14th 1810. If the undermentioned persons will make application at this Office, on Monday the 16th of July inst. they will receive an order for such quantities of Cloth as they may be entitled to on account of wool delivered at the Factory at Parramatta. By Command of His Excellency, WILLIAM BROYGHTON, Acting Commissart. Nicholas Bayly, Esq. Mr. McArthur Mr. Lawson Capt. Kemp Rev. Mr. Marsden John Leadbeater Alex. McDonald A. Riley, Esq. James Horrex Edward Elliott Joseph Holt William Mobbs Lieut. Bell Doctor Luttrell W. Cox Esq. John Pye George Best Thos. Clowers Richard Partridge Thomas Hackett John Lickerish Andrew Nash R. Fitz, Esq. William Joyce William Haspin William McDougall John Jones Mr. Smith Simon Moulds Owen Martin Geo. Howell Doctor Harris William Sykes John Goodwin Mary Ward Joseph Gilbert
Completed building bridge	November 10, 1813 South Creek, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line]. Citation details: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sat 20 Nov 1813 Page 2 Text: "By accident last week we omitted to mention that on Wednesday, the 10th instant, the new wooden bridge, leading across the South Creek, to the town of Windsor, being completely finished, was opened in due form for the accommodation of the Public in presence of HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR, who, we understand, went thither for that purpose, and was met by the Magistrates and Gentlemen of that neighbourhood, and by others from Sydney whose curiosity had led them to witness the ceremony. We are enabled to state, that the materials, workmanship, and construction of this much wanted bridge, alike met HIS EXCELLENCY'S unqualified approbation; and on the occasion he was pleased to order a very liberal allowance of spirits to the several persons employed in the erecting it, thereby marking his satisfaction at seeing it completed in so substantial and workman-like a manner. Out of compliment to Mr. Howe, of Windsor, who undertook and finished this bridge in so complete a manner, HIS EXCELLENCY was pleased to give his name to it, and it is to be hereafter known by the name of "Howe's Bridge." The Creek over which it is thrown, being one of the widest, deepest, and most rapid in the Colony, and subject besides to the immense floods which occasionally do so much injury on the banks of the Hawkesbury, with which it is connected, rendered it necessary to make the work as solid and strong as the materials of the country would admit of; and we have reason to believe, that it will be fully equal to the resisting the violence to which it will be thus exposed. This bridge, built of large logs of timber, is 214 feet in length, including the abutments; is supported over the Creek, which is about 100 feet wide, by four rows of upright piles, shod with iron, 45 feet in length, whereof about 10 feet are driven into the earth below the bed of the Creek, and 11 feet are in the water itself, leaving a height of about 24 feet for the bridge above the level of the water; the width of the bridge above, in the clear of the side rails, is 24 feet. Howe Bridge, although by far the largest and strongest built bridge that has ever been framed in the Colony, was commenced upon and completed within the short space of seven months."
Census	November 1828 (aged 66 years) Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Source: Ancestry.com. 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Text: Howell, George, 66, conditional pardon, Perseus, 1803, life, Protestant, landholder, Richmond Howell, Hannah, 44, free by servitude, Experiment, 1804, 7 years, Protestant Howell, Thomas, 20, born in the colony Howell, Walter 18 born in the colony Howell, Peter 16 born in the colony Howell, Matilda 14 born in the colony Howell, Sarah 12 born in the colony Howell, Vincent 10 born in the colony Howell, Susannah 8 born in the colony
Death	February 22, 1839 (aged 77 years) Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Source: Gravestone Text: Sacred TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE HOWELL WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY 22 1839. AGED 79 YEARS.
Burial	Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Source: Email message Citation details: Palmer, Holly, email message to Marion Purnell Oct 25 2019 Text: Buried at St Peters Church, Richmond Howell, George (1762-1839) [and others] - gravestone Howell, George (1762-1839) [and others] - gravestone

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Family with Hannah Asbury
himself	Links Birth: about 1762 Immigration: August 4, 1802 — Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Convicted for stealing: August 1804 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Marriage: estimated 1805 — New South Wales, Australia Petition to Governor: January 31, 1810 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Entitled to a quantity of Cloth: July 14, 1810 — New South Wales, Australia Completed building bridge: November 10, 1813 — South Creek, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: February 22, 1839 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Burial: Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Hannah Asbury George Howell Mary Ann Howell Thomas Howell Walter Howell Peter Howell Matilda Howell Vincent Howell Sarah Howell Susannah Howell George Howell 1762–1839 Birth: about 1762 Death: February 22, 1839 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
wife	Links Birth: about 1784 Marriage: April 7, 1798 — Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom Immigration: June 24, 1804 — Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Marriage: estimated 1805 — New South Wales, Australia Census: 1806 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: October 2, 1851 — North Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Burial: Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Elisha Hill Family with spouse George Howell George Howell Mary Ann Howell Thomas Howell Walter Howell Peter Howell Matilda Howell Vincent Howell Sarah Howell Susannah Howell Hannah Asbury 1784–1851 Birth: about 1784 Death: October 2, 1851 — North Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage	Marriage — estimated 1805 — New South Wales, Australia
4 months son	Links Birth: April 29, 1805 43 21 — New South Wales, Australia Religious marriage: January 30, 1827 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: February 28, 1838 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Burial: March 4, 1838 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Elizabeth Brown Elizabeth Mary Howell George Thomas Howell Anna Matilda Howell Eleanor Ann Howell Thomas Howell Mary Howell George Howell 1805–1838 Birth: April 29, 1805 43 21 — New South Wales, Australia Death: February 28, 1838 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years daughter	Links Birth: estimated 1807 45 23 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Religious marriage: 1829 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: October 22, 1842 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Burial: Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse William Farlow William Robert Farlow Robert Farlow Ann Elizabeth Farlow Michael Farlow Mary Ann Farlow James Henry Farlow John Farlow Christiana Farlow Matilda Farlow Mary Ann Howell 1807–1842 Birth: estimated 1807 45 23 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: October 22, 1842 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
3 years son	Links Birth: November 10, 1809 47 25 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Religious marriage: 1832 — Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: 1876 — Central Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia Burial: Orange, Central Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Elizabeth Crowley Elizabeth Howell Thomas Howell Mary Ann Howell Eliza Howell Charlotte Howell Jane Matilda Howell Jane Matilda Howell William Napoleon Howell Emma Sophia Howell George Wellington Howell Thomas Howell 1809–1876 Birth: November 10, 1809 47 25 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: 1876 — Central Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
3 years son	Links Birth: August 2, 1812 50 28 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Marriage: August 16, 1831 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: April 16, 1861 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Mary Cross Hannah Howell Mary Elizabeth Howell Walter Howell Susannah May Howell Sophia Jane Howell George Thomas Howell Martha Ellen Howell Louisa Matilda Howell Hannah Eliza Howell Sarah Ann Howell Joseph Peter Howell Emmaline Charlotte Howell Amanda Victoria Howell Walter Howell 1812–1861 Birth: August 2, 1812 50 28 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: April 16, 1861 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
19 months son	Links Birth: February 24, 1814 52 30 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Occupation: Farmer — 1834 — New South Wales, Australia Marriage: 1836 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: April 16, 1861 — Castlereagh, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Burial: Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Elizabeth Ann Kennedy George Howell Ann Elizabeth Howell Matilda Howell Peter Howell Mary Hannah Howell Flora Howell Archibald Joseph Howell Lucy Mileham Howell Peter Howell 1814–1861 Birth: February 24, 1814 52 30 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: April 16, 1861 — Castlereagh, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
15 months daughter	Links Birth: June 3, 1815 53 31 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Marriage: 1833 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: 1891 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Burial: Castlereagh, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Charles Hadley Charles Hadley Louisa Matilda Hadley Thomas Hadley Ann Hadley Mary Ann Hadley James Hadley Charles Hadley George Joseph Hadley Hannah Amelia Hadley William John Hadley Matilda Howell 1815–1891 Birth: June 3, 1815 53 31 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: 1891 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years son	Links Birth: December 25, 1817 55 33 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Marriage: 1837 — Castlereagh, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: August 29, 1855 — Newtown, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Burial: September 2, 1855 — Newtown, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Susannah Hadley Vincent Howell Lucy Anne Howell Charles Thomas Howell Matilda Elizabeth Howell Emma Jane Howell Charlotte Maria Howell Vincent Howell 1817–1855 Birth: December 25, 1817 55 33 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: August 29, 1855 — Newtown, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1 year daughter	Links Birth: 1818 56 34 — Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Marriage: 1841 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: September 24, 1875 — Meadow Flat, Central Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia Burial: Meadow Flat, Central Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse John McManus Sarah Howell 1818–1875 Birth: 1818 56 34 — Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: September 24, 1875 — Meadow Flat, Central Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
4 years daughter	Links Birth: 1821 59 37 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Marriage: 1840 — Windsor, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: April 29, 1885 — Cudal, Central Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia Burial: Cudal, Central Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Michael Gavin Sarah Gavin George Gavin James Gavin Hannah Gavin Catherine Gavin Thomas Gavin Caroline Gavin Matilda Gavin Michael Gavin Mary Ann Gavin John William Gavin Arthur Emerson Gavin Alvina Jane Gavin Susannah Howell 1821–1885 Birth: 1821 59 37 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: April 29, 1885 — Cudal, Central Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia

Elisha Hill + Hannah Asbury
wife’s husband	Links Birth: Marriage: April 7, 1798 — Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom Death: Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Hannah Asbury Elisha Hill – Birth: Death:
wife	Links Birth: about 1784 Marriage: April 7, 1798 — Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom Immigration: June 24, 1804 — Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Marriage: estimated 1805 — New South Wales, Australia Census: 1806 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Census: November 1828 — Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: October 2, 1851 — North Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Burial: Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Elisha Hill Family with spouse George Howell George Howell Mary Ann Howell Thomas Howell Walter Howell Peter Howell Matilda Howell Vincent Howell Sarah Howell Susannah Howell Hannah Asbury 1784–1851 Birth: about 1784 Death: October 2, 1851 — North Richmond, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage	Marriage — April 7, 1798 — Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Birth	Source: Ancestry.com. 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Immigration	Source: State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line]. Text: George Owle, one of 272 convicts transported on the ship Perseus, January 1802. Sentence details: Convicted at Stafford Assizes for a term of life. Vessel: Perseus and Coromandel. Date of Departure: January 1802. Place of Arrival: New South Wales. Source: British Newspaper Archive [database online] Citation details: Manchester Mercury Tue 26 Aug 1800 Text: ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. At Stafford assizes, which began on Wednesday the 13th instant, the following prisoners took their trials...George Owle for stealing a bay gelding the property of James Brashash, of Knightley...who were severally convicted and received sentence of death. Source: Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 Text: After his arrival in the colony, George became an overseer of Government wheelwrights at Parramatta, a position he held for at least six years. After his conditional pardon in 1806 he became a miller, building several mills at Parramatta and Richmond.
Convicted for stealing	Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line]. Citation details: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sun 19 Aug 1804 Page 4 Text: "Yesterday five men employed in a Government boat, viz. Peter Ware, Edward Loug, Robert Lack, George Howell and Henry Hart, were taken before a Magistrate, and charged with stealing a quantity of corn out of a boat; which offence being clearly proved, they were severally ordered to be corporally punished, and the last named four sent to hard labour at Castle Hill."
Marriage	Source: Purnell, Marion (editor) Text: Probably a common law relationship
Petition to Governor	Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Citation details: Memorials To The Governor, 1810-1826 Text: "Received 31 Jan 1810" "... The humble memorial of George Howell, wheelwright at Parramatta Most respectfully states That Your Excellency's memorialist has been nine years in this colony, is free, was six years overseer of the Government wheelwright at Parramatta and always conducted himself with honesty, industry and sobriety. That in consideration to Your Excellency's long servitude and uniform good behaviour and having a wife and three helpless children, Colonel Paterson the late Lieut. Governor was so food as to give your memorialist a fourteen years lease of an allotment of ground in the Back Row Parramatta on which he has built a comfortable dwelling house at a considerable expence - the lease of which memorialist sends herewith agreeable to Your Excellency's proclamation. Memorialist therefore most humbly begs that Your Excellency will be pleased to confer on the said lease to memorialist and in return, as in duty bound, shall every pray..."
Entitled to a quantity of Cloth	Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line]. Citation details: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sat 14 Jul 1810 Page 2 Text: "Commissary's Office, Sydney, July 14th 1810. If the undermentioned persons will make application at this Office, on Monday the 16th of July inst. they will receive an order for such quantities of Cloth as they may be entitled to on account of wool delivered at the Factory at Parramatta. By Command of His Excellency, WILLIAM BROYGHTON, Acting Commissart. Nicholas Bayly, Esq. Mr. McArthur Mr. Lawson Capt. Kemp Rev. Mr. Marsden John Leadbeater Alex. McDonald A. Riley, Esq. James Horrex Edward Elliott Joseph Holt William Mobbs Lieut. Bell Doctor Luttrell W. Cox Esq. John Pye George Best Thos. Clowers Richard Partridge Thomas Hackett John Lickerish Andrew Nash R. Fitz, Esq. William Joyce William Haspin William McDougall John Jones Mr. Smith Simon Moulds Owen Martin Geo. Howell Doctor Harris William Sykes John Goodwin Mary Ward Joseph Gilbert
Completed building bridge	Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line]. Citation details: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sat 20 Nov 1813 Page 2 Text: "By accident last week we omitted to mention that on Wednesday, the 10th instant, the new wooden bridge, leading across the South Creek, to the town of Windsor, being completely finished, was opened in due form for the accommodation of the Public in presence of HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR, who, we understand, went thither for that purpose, and was met by the Magistrates and Gentlemen of that neighbourhood, and by others from Sydney whose curiosity had led them to witness the ceremony. We are enabled to state, that the materials, workmanship, and construction of this much wanted bridge, alike met HIS EXCELLENCY'S unqualified approbation; and on the occasion he was pleased to order a very liberal allowance of spirits to the several persons employed in the erecting it, thereby marking his satisfaction at seeing it completed in so substantial and workman-like a manner. Out of compliment to Mr. Howe, of Windsor, who undertook and finished this bridge in so complete a manner, HIS EXCELLENCY was pleased to give his name to it, and it is to be hereafter known by the name of "Howe's Bridge." The Creek over which it is thrown, being one of the widest, deepest, and most rapid in the Colony, and subject besides to the immense floods which occasionally do so much injury on the banks of the Hawkesbury, with which it is connected, rendered it necessary to make the work as solid and strong as the materials of the country would admit of; and we have reason to believe, that it will be fully equal to the resisting the violence to which it will be thus exposed. This bridge, built of large logs of timber, is 214 feet in length, including the abutments; is supported over the Creek, which is about 100 feet wide, by four rows of upright piles, shod with iron, 45 feet in length, whereof about 10 feet are driven into the earth below the bed of the Creek, and 11 feet are in the water itself, leaving a height of about 24 feet for the bridge above the level of the water; the width of the bridge above, in the clear of the side rails, is 24 feet. Howe Bridge, although by far the largest and strongest built bridge that has ever been framed in the Colony, was commenced upon and completed within the short space of seven months."
Census	Source: Ancestry.com. 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Text: Howell, George, 66, conditional pardon, Perseus, 1803, life, Protestant, landholder, Richmond Howell, Hannah, 44, free by servitude, Experiment, 1804, 7 years, Protestant Howell, Thomas, 20, born in the colony Howell, Walter 18 born in the colony Howell, Peter 16 born in the colony Howell, Matilda 14 born in the colony Howell, Sarah 12 born in the colony Howell, Vincent 10 born in the colony Howell, Susannah 8 born in the colony
Death	Source: Gravestone Text: Sacred TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE HOWELL WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY 22 1839. AGED 79 YEARS.
Burial	Source: Email message Citation details: Palmer, Holly, email message to Marion Purnell Oct 25 2019 Text: Buried at St Peters Church, Richmond Howell, George (1762-1839) [and others] - gravestone

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Family with Hannah Asbury
himself	George Howell 1762–1839
wife	Hannah Asbury 1784–1851
son Family Elizabeth Brown Elizabeth Mary Howell George Thomas Howell Anna Matilda Howell Eleanor Ann Howell Thomas Howell Mary Howell	George Howell 1805–1838
daughter Family William Farlow William Robert Farlow Robert Farlow Ann Elizabeth Farlow Michael Farlow Mary Ann Farlow James Henry Farlow John Farlow Christiana Farlow Matilda Farlow	Mary Ann Howell 1807–1842
son Family Elizabeth Crowley Elizabeth Howell Thomas Howell Mary Ann Howell Eliza Howell Charlotte Howell Jane Matilda Howell Jane Matilda Howell William Napoleon Howell Emma Sophia Howell George Wellington Howell	Thomas Howell 1809–1876
son Family Mary Cross Hannah Howell Mary Elizabeth Howell Walter Howell Susannah May Howell Sophia Jane Howell George Thomas Howell Martha Ellen Howell Louisa Matilda Howell Hannah Eliza Howell Sarah Ann Howell Joseph Peter Howell Emmaline Charlotte Howell Amanda Victoria Howell	Walter Howell 1812–1861
son Family Elizabeth Ann Kennedy George Howell Ann Elizabeth Howell Matilda Howell Peter Howell Mary Hannah Howell Flora Howell Archibald Joseph Howell Lucy Mileham Howell	Peter Howell 1814–1861
daughter Family Charles Hadley Charles Hadley Louisa Matilda Hadley Thomas Hadley Ann Hadley Mary Ann Hadley James Hadley Charles Hadley George Joseph Hadley Hannah Amelia Hadley William John Hadley	Matilda Howell 1815–1891
son Family Susannah Hadley Vincent Howell Lucy Anne Howell Charles Thomas Howell Matilda Elizabeth Howell Emma Jane Howell Charlotte Maria Howell	Vincent Howell 1817–1855
daughter Family John McManus	Sarah Howell 1818–1875
daughter Family Michael Gavin Sarah Gavin George Gavin James Gavin Hannah Gavin Catherine Gavin Thomas Gavin Caroline Gavin Matilda Gavin Michael Gavin Mary Ann Gavin John William Gavin Arthur Emerson Gavin Alvina Jane Gavin	Susannah Howell 1821–1885

Elisha Hill + Hannah Asbury
wife’s husband	Elisha Hill –
wife	Hannah Asbury 1784–1851