t that she was of Scotch blood. Thus the Scotch strain in the family of Hoge to be stimulated. S.S. Howe says that she was slightly below medium size, with light hair and blue eyes and walked with a slight limp which required the use of a cane and which in years after gave rise to a curious tradition of the stroke of the cane against the floor being heard at the old homestead.
The Family of Hoge – 1927
from a letter written by J. Nellie Hoge, regarding Governor James Hoge Tyler, that appeared in the Richmond Dispatch in August, 1879.
"...His grandmother, the wife of General James Hoge, was the daughter of Major Daniel Howe, on whose headstone, in the family burial ground, in Pulaski County, is the unique epitaph:
'In youth a solider of the Revolution,
In old age a solider of the Cross.'
"The Howe homestead is in the possesion of a granddaughter, Mrs. Eugene de Jarnette (nee Agnes Howe).
"In Mrs. Howe's veins flowed some of the proudest English blood, but as her ancestor had thrown away his title to the trappings of heraldry to espouse the cause of liberty so she ever impressed on this boy that
' 'Tis only noble to be good,
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.'
"Hence he is a democrat in heart; one of the people; ever ready so sustain that prime American principle: Nobility belongs only to those who win it.
"Bluff City, Virginia, August 21 1879.
J. Nellie Hoge
The Family of Hoge – 1927
"The maternal grandmother of James Hoge Tyler was Eleanor Howe, the daughter of Major Howe, of the Revolutionary War, of the same lineage as Lord Howe and General Wayne."
South-west Virginia and the valley – 1892
"She was a daughter of Joseph Howe, brother of Lord Howe of England."
Earl Clarence Frost – 1954
Martin Wood is the author of The Family and Descendants of St. Thomas More
, published 30 Apr 2008, 3 months after he sent me the following emails.
January 8, 2008
I found your Scrope ancestry very interesting. There is quite a bit of information about the Scropes in "The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester"
by John Nichols. Vol. II., PT. II. Published in 1798.
It is in here because the Scropes of Bolton were also Lords of the Manor of Blaston and also had connections with Bowden Magna where Geoffrey Scrope (d.1380) was Rector.
The information accompanying two Pedigrees matches your information. However, under Emanuel Scrope, Lord Viscount Howe it says he died in Barbados in 1735 "leaving by his lady, Mary-Sophia-Charlotte, daughter of baron Kilmansegg, three sons; George-Augustus, Richard, and William; besides six daughters."
I notice you have a son Joseph.
Langar (Nottinghamshire), where Thomas Lord Scrope (d.1609) and Thomas Lord Scrope (d.1627) are buried is only about ten miles from where I live.
The Pedigree of Lords Scrope of Bolton, Lords of the Manor of Blaston, refers to Martha Jones, alias Sandford, as Emanuel Scrope's "concubine"
It refers to Anabella Scrope, alias Jones, alias Sandford as "filia bastarda"
January 9, 2008
Oh the contradictions of genealogical sources!
I was in the local library this morning and looked at Thorotons "Antiquities of Nottinghamshire"
and he records that Scrope Howe (d. Barbados 1735) and his wife Sophia Charlotte Kilmansegg had six sons
and four daughters
I found it interesting to read Thoroton because he was obviously a contemporary of Richard Howe. Referring to the sons of Scrope Howe and Sophia Charlotte he says:
"...one of which was George Augustus, the late Viscount, who was killed at the attack on Triconderago, July 5 1758; Richard, the present Viscount; and Sir William Howe, who commanded against the Americans in the late war, and to whom the honours of the family are likely to descend, the present Lord Howe having no male issue."
Thoroton goes on to say:
"The Right Honourable Richard Howe, Viscount Howe, Baron of Colonawley, also Viscount Howe of Langar, by birth, was lately created Earl Howe, by his present Majesty, and Vice-Admiral of England at the death of the brave Lord Rodney in 1792. He married Mary, daughter of Chiverton Hartopp E