Genealogy: Elizabeth Howard (1417-1483)

in #genealogy10 months ago (edited)

I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here with the goal of eventually creating a linked family tree on Hive. You can see the index here.

Elizabeth Howard was born around 1417. Like most people that you can find that far back, she has a relationship to royalty. Other than her parents and birth and death dates, I haven't found any other info as of yet. Whenever I pick a person from my family tree out at random to post here I always go back and see what new or additional info I can find. While I verified the info I have (via FamilySearch) there was no real additional info or even a source to indicate where these dates came from.

According to Gramps, Elizabeth is my eighteenth great grandaunt. There are also a couple of other more distant relationships.

I use GenoPro (commercial software) to maintain my family tree because I like the "Genogram" user interface. However, I mainly use Gramps to generate reports which is what most of the info below is based on. GenoPro generates reports too, I just don't like the formatting as much. While GenoPro is commercial software, Gramps is open source software that is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. I also use its relationship calculator functionality as noted above. I've also been exploring The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) which is web based and requires a web server, PHP and mySQL database. In addition, I also have GedSite which also generates static HTML reports.

Both TNG and GedSite are commercial software so you have to pay for them. I think their price is reasonable and they are both excellent in their own ways. However, I prefer the open source nature of Gramps and the fact that it generates static HTML makes it easier to work with. I still like TNG enough that I will probably keep using it as well. I've been playing with GedSite on and off but haven't committed to it yet, however I've liked other sites I've seen generated with it. For now I am generating reports with Gramps and updating TNG on a fairly regular basis.

The chart at the top is an ancestry chart out to four generations from Gramps. The chart at the bottom is the same thing as generated by TNG. The index of all individuals I have posted so far can be found here.


Howard, Elizabeth

Birth Name Howard, Elizabeth
Gender female
Age at Death 66 years, 2 months, 21 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1417 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England    
Death 1483-03-22      

Age: 66y

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Howard, Robert13851437
Mother Mowbray, Margaret1391before 1459-10-18
    Sister     Howard, Catherine 1410 1476-10-18
    Sister     Howard, Margaret of Raithwire 1412 1472
         Howard, Elizabeth 1417 1483-03-22
    Sister     Howard, Anne 1422
    Sister     Howard, Jane 1422 1508-08-25
    Brother     Howard, John 1430 1485-08-22

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Last change was the 2023-05-14 23:00:40