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Thanks so much for taking the trouble to help out and reply to me.
I have not found a birth of a 10th child after Elizabeth's death. I suppose my gut instinct is that perhaps she was confined with Hepatitis being very ill and the carditis was caused as a secondary event. On the cause of death it is worded thus  ( Hepatitis
                                                                     (      12 weeks
                                                                      ( Confinement
                                                                         Carditis 9 days

No punctuation after any of the words and very hard to read after the Carditis, looks like "of days" but I think it is 9 days.

I think if there was any pregnancy involved, perhaps she was just 12 weeks into her pregnancy, but probably the 12 weeks referred to her illness needing her to be confined in the final stages.

Hope you all agree, and thanks again. I am sure I will have more puzzles to be solved with your kind assistance.
Speak soon,
Liverbird50

Just a post script to Clare, who kindly found details of the probate and will of John Howard (Jnr) who died in 1953. The two people mentioned in the Will, i.e. David Edgar Thomas Cross and Edgar Seymour Cross were John Howard's second cousins, more proof if any were needed. The Cross brothers' mother was Ann Howard, youngest sister of John Howard (Senior).
Liverbird50.
Best wishes to all.

Thanks so much, as always, for the speedy and very helpful information. I am sure that the death of Frances Augusta Howard would indeed be much more likely in 1951 in Essex and I have therefore amended my family tree accordingly. That makes much more sense, so I am very grateful. Also very grateful for the information that Frances Augusta and John Howard were living together at an address in Dunmow in 1939, I think I can assume from that that John was not married or with children.

I think, with all your help, I am now able to draw a line under that particular branch of the Howard family.

My very grateful thanks. Rootschat is the best.

thanks to Garstonite for the suggestion. Luckily the Friends of Anfield Cemetery have found the burial at West Derby. As Anfield Cemetery was closer to Belmont Road than West Derby, I thought that would be where they would discover the burial. However, they literally went the extra mile (or two) and found it at West Derby.
Cheers. Liverbird50