When William Howes was born in 1857, in Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Walter Howes, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Burley, was 26. He married Harriet Elizabeth Phillips on 24 August 1880, in Moseley, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Moseley, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Coventry St Michael, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died in January 1897, in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 40.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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English:
pronounced to rhyme with hose, a variant of Howe 1 with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. Hose (Leicestershire), recorded as Howes in 1086, is named with the plural of Old English hōh ‘hill spur’.
pronounced to rhyme with cows, a variant of Howe 2 (see Hugh ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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