Interesting..... these Powells.....from Ireland, multiple forenames suggests their religion,
Mine are:
Name: William Joseph POWELL**
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Birth: 1860 Westport, County Mayo, Ireland
Death: 1930 Bath, Somerset, England
Occupation: Commercail Traveller or just a ‘Traveller’
Marriage: 1882 Bath, Somerset, England
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Spouse: Eva Frances BROWN ...perhaps With An E
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Birth: 1862 Bath, Somerset, England
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Children
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1 F: Eva Frances Browne POWELL
Birth: Sept Q 1883 Bath, Somerset, England
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2 F: Helena Letitia D POWELL
Birth: Sept Q 1884 Bath, Somerset, England
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3 M: William Maurice M POWELL
Birth: Sept Q 1885 Bath, Somerset, England/ Broadclyst Devon
Spouse: Rosamond Alicia BAYNE
Marriage: Mar 1905 St. Thomas The Apostle, Broadclyst, Devon, England
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4 M: Walton Hubert C POWELL
Birth: Mar Q 1888 Bath, Somerset, England
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5 F: Algorta Marjorie Blanche CHILD (Aka Diana)
Birth: 1889 “Widford, Hertford, England (or so her Marr L says)”
Death: 10 Apr 1927 Ayr District Asylum (as Diana Hamilton)
Spouse: Sir Charles Edward Archibald Watkin HAMILTON Bart. Of Trebunshin
Marriage: 8 Nov 1906 St Marylebone Register Office, London
Divorce: 1908
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6 F: Marjorie Adelaide F POWELL Poss Missing Child
Birth: Dec Q1889 Barton Regis, Gloucestershire
Spouse: Walter ELLIOTT
Marriage: 1923 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
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7 F: Hilda Geraldine Ridley POWELL
Birth: Sept Q 1890 Barton Regis, Gloucestershire
Death: Dec 1963 Chichester, Sussex, England
Spouse: George William CHILD
Marriage: 1911 St Giles, London
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8 F: Nahneen Helen Yvonne CHILD
Birth: 24 Jul 1891 Ireland, Waterford? (marr License?)
Death: 26 Jan 1951 West Bromwich, Oldbury, Worcs
Spouse: Frederick Beaconsfield PENTLAND
Marriage: 1923 St Georges Hanover Square, London
Spouse: Capt. Claude Patrick Julian HAYES
Marriage: 10 Aug 1914 Kensington, London (civil) and at Notre Dame des Victoires, Paris
** 1889 saw W J Powell prosecuted in Wells and then in Bath for Bigamy. Lots of press reports.
5 & 8 have been brick walls for me for yonks i know a lot about both - 8 was the mother of my cousin (93+ today!) So when I found a link to 7 Thought thetas achancebut the last Press report cites the Judge as saying that WJP had 8 children.... and with several obvious links I could suddenly see that this was my Cousins family.
She assumed her Mum kept her family history to herself because there was something especially good - now we know it was the opposite.
WJP was a seaman, was a Captain ...of a Salvation Army Chapel he had set up, had been in prison for not being good.... had been a children's entertainer.
He died in 1930 in Bath.... what else can I learn of him, his origins, where his family were in 1891, 1901, 1911 and later? I know where Hilda, Algorta and Nahneen were! I know William married and had 3 children but what about the others and Eva their Mum? I am looking for her parents too!
So yes these Powells are the children of a man who was a traveller and commercial traveller - who broke the laws of church and state - did his family desert him because of that?
Anyone have access to bath electoral rolls in the years up to 1930.
Who knows maybe we have links yet to find?
