Person:Katherine Hauschildt (1)

The linkage of Katherine Housel with Simeon Pownall, with a marriage date of 1752 is one that definitely exists according to the "Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania."^[1] This mention of the name Howsell as Katherine's maiden name has apparently 'always' placed her as the daughter of Jacob 'son of Kasper' (even though the snippet from the Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania^[1] tells of a different time frame. With solid evidence that Jacob's daughter Catherine was married to another man, we now find that this Katherine Howsell is without parents. So at this time, we are maintaining a link to her family here until we can discover whose family she belongs to.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Biographical annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: containing biographical and genealogical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settlers. (Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1903)
   Vol 1. p. 318.

   "George Pownall, who was born shortly after the death of his father, was married in the Falls Meeting of Friends to Hannah Hutchinson, May 2, 1797, and became the father of four children: John, Rachel, Reuben and Simeon. The last named married Catherine Howsell, and they came into Lancaster county, when their son Levi was but two years of age, settling in Sadsbury township, where Simeon Pownall had a tannery, and was also engaged in farming. He and his wife had children as follows: Simeon was born Sept. 15, 1753; Levi, born July 5, 1756, in Bucks county, married Elizabeth Buckman, also a native of that county (they were the grandparents of Henry Pownall, whose name introduces this article); Anna was born Feb. II, 1757; Moses, April 1, 1759; Mary, Jan. 28, 1761; Hannah, Feb. 5, 1763; Margaret, May 6, 1765; Catherine, July 28, 1766; Rachel, Aug. 23, 1768."