Obviously, Joseph Howe cannot have been in recognized
line of succession to the viscountcy.
Which does not make it impossible that he were some
sort of cousin.
Second, third or whatnot cousin...
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By the way, a cosmic revenge to those desperate
creators of royal ancestries to themselves, would be
if Joseph Howe were an illegitimate son of the 2nd
Viscount, thus of course with some other woman than
his wife baroness Marie Sofie af Kielmansegg.
Look what then happens to the ancestry
(how elevated is the ancestry, i.e only through
Emanuel Scrope, 2nd Viscount Howe - as elevated
ancestries probably had lots of commoners in Virginia
itself)
It actually is a pity that there is no explicit
evidence to indicate this possibility, and I respect
Occam's Razor; were there even a shred of primary data
mentioning Joseph as illegitimate brother of the 3rd
viscount, the military commander, I would happily use
it...
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Which brings the obvious possibility that the kinship
of Joseph Howe to viscounts Howe, purported in their
oral tradition, may be based on illegitimate origin.
Bastard lineages from squirearchy may well have found
their way to Massachusetts or Virginia in those times.
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