Matthew Howard

Abt 1609 - 1659  (~ 50 years)

• Name	Matthew Howard
  Alternate birth	Abt 1607  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1609	England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Abt 1659  [1]
  Death	Between 1652-1659	Virginia   [2]
  Person ID	I3448	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2022

  
  

  Family	Anne   d. Bef 1659, Virginia
  Marriage	Bef 1638  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Howard,   b. Abt 1638, Lower Norfolk County, Virginia d. Between 1669 and 1673 (Age ~ 31 years) + 2. Samuel Howard,   b. Abt 1647, Lower Norfolk County, Virginia d. Between 28 Feb 1702 and 9 Nov 1703, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (Age ~ 55 years)
  Family ID	F3366	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  "Matthew Howard of Maryland: given a fanciful conspiracy-theory (literally) descent from Henry VII, in a 1976 historical novel (!) by Maryland genealogist James Moss. The other theory in print is the older one by Harry Wright Newman; both are groundless. Newman's theory is patently false; the Moss theory may have a grain of truth in some distant cadet connection to the ducal Howards of Norfolk, but there is no evidence beyond the questionable armory." [Nathaniel Lane Taylor, here] Matthew and Anne Howard are common ancestors of JMF and PNH. They are also ancestors of the boxer Jack Dempsey (see our entry for Matthew's grandson Philip Howard), of the poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), of Frank and Jesse James, and worst of all, of the Nazi-flirtatious Duchess of Windsor, Bessie Wallis Warfield: Matthew Howard (1609-1658) = Ann (1612-1659) John Howard (1645-1696) = Susannah Norwood (b. 1620) John Howard (d. 1704) = Katherine Greenbury (d. 1704) Katherine Howard (b. 1697) = Orlando Griffith Sarah Griffith (1718-1794) = Nicholas Dorsey (1712-1780) Rachel Dorsey (1737-1805) = Anthony Lindsay (b. 1736) Vachel Lindsay = Annie Quisenberry Nicholas Lindsay = Martha Cave Vachel Thomas Lindsay (b. 1843) = Esther Frazee Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, known as Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) Matthew Howard (1609-1658) = Ann (1612-1659) John Howard (1645-1696) = Susannah Norwood (b. 1620) John Howard (d. 1704) = Katherine Greenbury (d. 1704) Katherine Howard (b. 1697) = Orlando Griffith Sarah Griffith (1718-1794) = Nicholas Dorsey (1712-1780) Rachel Dorsey (1737-1805) = Anthony Lindsay (b. 1736) Anthony Lindsay (1767-1831) = Alice Cole (1769-1818) Sarah Lindsay (1803-1851) = James Cole (1804-1827) Zerelda Elizabeth Cole (1825-1911) = Robert Sallee James (1818-1850) Alexander Franklin James, known as Frank James (1843-1915) -- and his brother -- Jesse Woodson James, known as Jesse James (1847-1882) Matthew Howard (1609-1658) = Ann (1612-1659) Mathew Howard (~1640-~1692) = Sarah Dorsey (d. <1691) Sarah Howard = John Worthington (~1651-1701) Thomas Worthington (b. ~1691) = Elizabeth Ridgely Elizabeth Worthington (d. 1775 or 1776) = Henry Dorsey (1712-1770) Ariana Dorsey (b. 1755) = Benjamin Warfield Daniel Warfield = Nancy Mactier Henry Mactier Warfield (1826-1885) = Anna Emory (1830-1915) Teackle Wallis Warfield (1869-1896) = Alice Montague (1869-1929) Bessie Wallis (Warfield) (Spencer) (Simpson) Warfield (1896-1986), Duchess of Windsor, wife of the abdicated Edward VIII

  
  

• Sources

  [S3793] Joseph H. Howard, "Who Were Matthew Howard's Parents? A Revisit." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin volume 41, number 4, page 574. [S82] Maryland and Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of Some Colonial Families by Sharon J. Doliante. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Maryland, 1991.