Editing Joseph Howe (section)

==Family==
Prior to his marriage, Howe had a son by a woman other than his later wife, whose identity is unknown. This first child was Edward Howe, who lived with his mother in a home Howe maintained in [[Maitland, Nova Scotia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enfieldweeklypress.com/2011/09/27/botheration-schemes-a-hit-in-maitland/|title=The Enfield Weekly Press. September 27, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206083806/http://www.enfieldweeklypress.com/2011/09/27/botheration-schemes-a-hit-in-maitland/|archive-date=February 6, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 322">{{cite journal |last1=Punch |first1=Terrance M. |last2=Marble |first2=Allan E. |title=The Family of John Howe, Loyalist and King's Printer |journal=Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly |volume=6 |date=September 1976 |page=323}}</ref>

Joseph Howe later married Catherine Susan Ann McNab, daughter of Captain John McNab, [[Nova Scotia Fencibles|Nova Scotia Regiment of Fencible Infantry]],<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://archive.org/stream/20a21collectionsof20novauoft#page/175/mode/2up |last=Piers |first=Harry |title=The Fortieth Regiment, Raised at Annapolis Royal in 1717; and Five Regiments Subsequently Raised in Nova Scotia |journal=Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society |volume=XXI |location=Halifax, NS |date=1927 |page=175}}</ref> on February 2, 1828.<ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 322"/> She was born in 1808 in the barracks at the entrance to the harbour of St. John's, Newfoundland, where her father was in command of the troops. She lived with her father on [[McNab's Island]], which had previously been occupied by her uncle, Peter McNab. In Joseph Howe's "Poems and Essays" (Montreal: 1874), there are two poems addressed to his wife. Towards the close of her life, the Legislature of Nova Scotia granted her a small pension. She died in [[Dartmouth, Nova Scotia]], July 6, 1890, and is buried alongside her husband in Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax.

Joseph Howe had ten children with Catherine Susan Ann McNab.
* Mary Howe: b. 9 May 1829, d. 12 May 1829 aged 3 days.<ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 322"/>
* Ellen Howe: b. 3 Dec 1830, m. 22 Oct 1851 to Cathcart Thomson (son of James Thomson of Spital, Jamaica, and Christian [Renny] Thomson of Falkirk, Scotland). Cathcart Thomson was thus a first cousin of Hon. William Young, who was premier and later chief justice of Nova Scotia. Cathcart and Ellen had four sons and two daughters: Katherine Christian married [[William Chadwick Bourchier]], Dean of Cashel in Ireland and Mary Ellen married Admiral [[Sir Charles Knowles, 4th Baronet]] from whom descends the present holder of the baronetcy. Ellen d. 5 Feb 1910 aged 79 years.<ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 322"/>
* Mary Howe: b. 29 Nov 1832, d. 1 Nov 1853 aged 20 years.<ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 322"/>
* Joseph Howe: b. 7 July 1834, d. 24 Aug 1888 in Cookstown, Queensland, Australia aged 54 years. No issue.<ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 322"/>
* Sophia Howe: b. 13 Aug 1836, d. 13 Sep 1837 aged 1 year.<ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 322"/>
* James Howe: b. 24 July 1839, d 14 Oct 1839 aged 2 months.<ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 322"/>
* Frederick Howe, bapt. 24 Dec 1840. Served in the American Civil War. Died c. 1887–1889 in the US, aged about 47–49.<ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 322"/>
* Sydenham Howe, bapt. 19 Mar 1843. Married 26 Apr 1870 Fanny Westphal McNab (daughter of James B. McNab and Sarah [Currie] McNab). Worked as a dominion auditor, and he was a founding member of the [[Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society]]. Lived in [[Middleton, Nova Scotia]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/165 165]}}</ref> Died 14 Apr 1929. Sydenham and Fanny had 4 sons and 2 daughters.<ref>Punch, Terrance M. and Marble, Allan E. (1976), p. 322-323.</ref>
* John Howe: b. 16 May 1864(?), d. 20 June 1856 (birth year in source article is a clear typographical error as it states that he was born in 1864, yet his information appears before William Howe who was born 1848, and he is stated to have died in 1856, therefore the likely year of his birth was 1844), if his birth was in 1844, then he died at the age of 12 years.<ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 323">Punch, Terrance M. and Marble, Allan E. (1976), p. 323.</ref>
* William Howe: b. 27 July 1848, 1st m. 23 Sep 1873 to Helen F. Ross (daughter of Rev. Principal James Ross, D.D.). William and Helen had two daughters. Second marriage 4 Mar 1884 to Maggie Clark (daughter of Robert Clark of Ottawa), no issue. William died 28 Apr 1890, aged 41.<ref name="Punch, Terrance M 1976 p. 323"/>