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Howell Regalia

Howell Tartan?

Although Scottish Clan Tartans have a long traditional history, there is no historic evidence of clan named tartans in Wales, or for that matter Ireland or England. Recently however (since the late 20th century), Welsh Tartans, as well as Irish and others, are being created in both family and regional or district designs.

Welsh tartans are being woven in Wales in a variety of patterns. The interest in tartan fashions in Wales has increased as a result of a resurgence in Welsh nationalism and the introduction of the modern St. David's (Welsh National) Tartan. One of the more interesting developments is the creation of a number of Welsh family named tartans. While nobody pretends that these family named tartans have any true historic pedigree, they are said to be designed with reference to the history of each family name. However they have no official standing with any of the Welsh families whose names they bear, nor are they registered or regulated. In that regard they are merely fashion designs that have been named for those families.

This is an example of the Howell/Powell Tartan.

Coat of Arms? - Family Crest?

In the heraldic traditions of England and Scotland an individual, rather than a family, had a coat of arms. In those traditions coats of arms are legal property transmitted from father to son, and undifferentiated arms are used only by one person at any given time. Other descendants of the original bearer could bear the ancestral arms only with some difference: usually a color change or the addition of a distinguishing charge.

This is the Coat of Arms of Edward Howell of Southampton, New York. He was born at the Manor of Westbury, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England and baptized 22 July 1584 at Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire. He married (1) Frances Paxton, who died 2 July 1630 and was buried in England, and married (2) Eleanor, who came to Boston with him in 1639. Edward Howell died in 1655 and is buried in Southampton, Long Island, New York.

"Rules, Three Towers, tripled towered, Argent." - Motto: "Tenax Propositi" = Firm of purpose.

DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD HOWELL, by Emma Howell Ross, The University Press, Winchester, MA. (As pictured on the cover)

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