As for his [Henry Howe Connor's] mother Elizabeth Howe, a genealogist making a collection of records of the Howe family of England, sent the information that Howe as a Kentish name originated in Hoo, a rather large peninsula where the river Thames joins the river Medway. - Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell
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