Frances Conolly, Viscountess Howe
(1742-1817)
BIRTH
1742
PLACE
County Kildare, Ireland
DEATH
September 1817
PLACE
Twickenham, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
FAMILY
HUSBAND
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
(1729-1814)
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Frances “Fanny” Conolly Howe (c. 1742–1817) was the daughter of Irish politician William Conolly and Lady Anne Wentworth. She married William Howe in June 1765, before he commanded Britain’s armies in America. A copy of their marriage settlement survives in the National Library of Ireland’s Westport collection. They had no children, and she survived his death in 1814 by three years. Sources differ on the exact June wedding day; her public activities are sparsely documented.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Frances Conolly’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Frances Conolly is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
Frances Conolly died on Sep 1817, in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. Frances “Fanny” Conolly Howe was the daughter of Irish politician William Conolly and Lady Anne Wentworth. She married William Howe in June 1765, before he commanded Britain’s armies in America. A copy of their marriage settlement survives in the National Library of Ireland’s Westport collection. They had no children, and she survived his death in 1814 by three years. Sources differ on the exact June wedding day; her public activities are sparsely documented. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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