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From: "Robert Treharne Jones" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] powell edwards
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 11:02:39 +0100
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Aha! Finally found him - his name in 1901 was Powell Edward (without the
's'), hence the possibility that is forename and surname were interposed. In
fact that's EXACTLY what happened - if you examine the census return in
details there's a (2) over the word Powell and a (1) over the word Edward so
the enumerator recognised the error.

His occupation is listed a general labourer and place of birth as
Llanganten, an ancient parish in the Builth area which no longer exists.

With that information the following is available from the censuses:

1871 Working as a farm labourer and lodging with the Jones family at
Llangyfelach, Glamorgan.

1861 Working as a waggoner and general agricultural labourer and lodging
with the Williams family in Llannon, Carmarthenshire

1851 Working as a servant with the Price family (farmers) in Llanelwedd,
Radnorshire

1841 Living in Llanganten with his parents Edward, 45, and Marcy (sic), 40,
plus siblings Mary, 3, Rees, 9, and Samuel and William, both 5.

Of course this doesn't tie in with what you state regarding Mary's marriage
to John Jones in 1844 when she would only have been 6 years old, nor the
family living in Nantyglo. However no other Edward Powell that I could find
comes near to the critical data of 'Llanganten 1829' so I'm assuming that
this Edward Powell is not the correct one for your family and the 1901 data
is a red herring.

It's now worth looking for 'Edward Powell' in the early censuses for
Nantyglo/Aberystruth.

Robert


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Hallo - thanks for your interest - we know its not Blane However on 1901
Census we found a Powell eDWARDS AGED 72 BORN 1829 INMATE AT aSYLUM IN
bUILTH bRECONSHIRE.It says born in Llangenten - which could be anywhere in
Wales!!!! It questions the fact that he may have is name wrong way round -
however on the marriage certificate of his daughter Mary it says fatheer
POwell Edwards farmer.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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>
> Looking for Powell ewdwards all we know is that his daughter Mary married
a
> John Jones in 1844 at the Parish Church of Aberystruth.They were resident
> at time in Nantyglo.Mary was born in 1826.

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