Birth: 16 March 1893 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, UK
Father: Francis William Howett (Howitt) 1855-1942
Mother: Agnes Ann Thompson 1863-1934
Marriage: 9 April 1914 St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, UL
Wife: Mary Eliza Ritson 1895-1772
Death: 20 February 1980 Rothbury, Northumberland, UK
Mary Elizabeth Howett 1915-a1939
Henry W Howett 1918-1910
Samuel Howett 1920-a1947
Harold Howett 1922-a1954
Dorothy N Howett 1924
Joyce Howett 1926-a1951
George Howett 1932-2006
Birth of Henry Howett in FreeBMD in April-June 1893 in Newcastle T (10B 99).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 for Henry Howitt (sic) baptised on 5 April 1893 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, parents Francis William and Agnes Howitt.
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Henry Howitt (sic) baptised in 1893 in one and 5 April 1893 in the other, at St Nicholas, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, parents Francis William and Agnes Howitt.
In the 1901 census as Henry Howett aged 8, born in Newcastle on Tyne, and living with his parents (Francis W and Agnes A), brother (Robert K) and sister (Margaret A) at 30 St Nicholas Churchyard, St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
His two brothers and sister were born in Newcastle upon Tyne from 1902 to 1906.
In the 1911 census as Henry W Howett aged 18, born in Newcastle, Northumberland, single, a putter in a coal mine, and boarding with his brother (Robert K) with Thomas Conroy (aged 29, born in Marpeth, Northumberland and a miner) and his wife (Annie Jane aged 31 and born in Brighton, Sussex) in three rooms at 29 Beecher Street, Cowpen New Town, Northumberland.
Marriage of Henry W Howett and Mary E Ritson in FreeBMD in October-December 1914 in Newcastle T (10B 105).
His daughter and two sons were born in Newcastle upon Tyne from from 1915 to 1920.
Two entries in Ancestry UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 for Henry Wallace Howett of Newcastle upon Tyne 235 23 Northd Fus. in one and his discharge on 4 December 1917 as private 23/235 due to disability, address 17 Quality Row Newcastle on Tyne in the other.
In the 1921 census as Henry Wallace Howell (sic) born in 1893 and living with Mary Eliza Howell (wife?), Samuel Howell (son?) and Mary Eliza Howell (daughter?) in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
His two sons and two daughters were born in Newcastle upon Tyne from 1922 to 1932.
There are six entries in Ancestry Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Electoral Registers, 1741-1974 for Henry Howett addresses 17 Quality Row, St Lawarence in 1930 other occupant Mary Eliza Howett (wife?) and six other families, 52 Hawick Terrace, St Lawrence from 1931 to 1935, other occupant Mary Eliza Howett (wife?), and 3 Knot Place, Benwell, other occupant Mary Eliza Howeet, (wife?), and three for Henry Wallace Howett address 3 Knott Place, Benwell from 1937 to 1939 other occupants Mary Eliza Howett (wife?), and Mary Eliza Howett (daughter?) in 1937 and 1939.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Henry Howett born 16 March 1893, married, a steel erector and A.R.O. warden, and living with Mary Eliza Howett (wife?), George Howett (son?), and Joyce Howett (daughter?) at 3 Knott Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
There are eighteen entries in Ancestry Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Electoral Registers, 1741-1974 for Henry Howett address 3 Knott Place, Scotswood from 1946 to 1972, other occupants Mary Eliza Howett (wife?), Samuel Howett (son?) from 1946 to 1947, Joyce Howett (daughter?) from 1946 to 1951, Harold Howett (son?) from 1950 to 1954, and George Howett (son?) from 1954 to 1959.
His wife died on 24 August 1972 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Death of Henry Howitt (sic), born 16 March 1893, in FreeBMD in January-March 1981 in Nthmblnd NS (1 2253).
There are six entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Henry Howett, several of which give his death on 20 February 1980 (sic) in Rothbury, Northumberland.
Henry Wallace Howett was the father of George Howett, husband of Muriel Alice Thirlaway, second cousin once removed of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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