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Title: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: mbridge on Tuesday 27 July 10 20:47 BST (UK)
I'm descended from Nathaniel Powell, who graduated MD at Edinburgh University in 1798 and died at Roscrea, where I believe he had practiced medicine, on 14 September 1817. He left eight children by his wife Harriet (dau. of John Allman, of Co. Clare and sister of Capt. Francis Allman of New South Wales) and was ancestor of several doctors.

The notice of his graduation in The Edinburgh Magazine states that he was from Ireland, but I don't know whether or not he was from Roscrea/Co. Tipperary. I wondered if anyone else had come across this family or knew anything about its origins? One relative believed that the family crest was a lion rampant with a sheaf of corn.

Many thanks,

Mark
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: Andrew Tarr on Wednesday 03 February 21 09:29 GMT (UK)
Henry Nathanial Powell, his son, married Amy Liversidge, my great aunt. We have their photo album, now very battered, with some labelled photos of Powells, plus many unlabelled ones, if you are interested contact me.
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: dathai on Wednesday 03 February 21 10:41 GMT (UK)
https://www.nationalarchives.ie/search-the-online-catalogue/advanced-search/#!/details/111070633

https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccord.ged/individual/I31421/Nathaniel-Stephen-Powell
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: Maggsie on Wednesday 03 February 21 10:52 GMT (UK)
Hi,
Did Nathaniel have a brother or cousin called Caleb Powell?
He married Rebecca Burgess.
Maggsie
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: dathai on Wednesday 03 February 21 12:02 GMT (UK)
son Francis
https://www.nationalarchives.ie/search-the-online-catalogue/advanced-search/#!/details/111052306
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: miracula on Sunday 07 February 21 21:43 GMT (UK)
My gggrandaunt Sarah Acheson (abt 1831-1912) married 1858 William Powell (abt 1833-1913), son of Caleb Powell and Ellen Dagg from Blean, Latteragh, Co. Tipperary.
Blean is 26 km away of Roscrea, both in North Tipperary.

In the census 1901 there are 145 Powell's in Co. Tipperary and quite some of them in the area around Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. In the census 1911 there were 162 people having the surname Powell and living in Co. Tipperary.
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: Andrew Tarr on Monday 08 February 21 09:20 GMT (UK)
Henry Nathaniel Powell, his [grand]son, married Amy Liversidge, my great aunt. We have their photo album, now very battered, with some labelled photos of Powells, plus many unlabelled ones, if you are interested contact me.
[correction]:  John Allman Powell (1817-1879) must have been Nathaniel's last child before he died of typhus.  JAP remained one of Roscrea's doctors, marrying Eliza Castles in 1848 and having 4 daughters and 4 sons, three of whom followed the same profession.  Henry Nathaniel was the eldest, and I suspect might have done the same, but failed to qualify.  He is always recorded as an unspecified 'gentleman'; he died of Bright's disease in 1899.
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: Maggsie on Monday 08 February 21 10:59 GMT (UK)
Miracula,
I was asked two years ago if I could help a lady with the Powell and Dagg family, your Powell and Dagg.
I got as far back as 1668 to a John Powell and an Ann Pickett. Their son John married a Dagg.
Then 4 gen's later Caleb Powell married Eleanor Dagg.
If I said to you "Riversdale" would it mean anything to you?
Maggsie
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: miracula on Monday 08 February 21 21:16 GMT (UK)
Maggsie,
Riversdale is a townland in Co. Galway, but has so far no meaning for me.
I think I was in contact as well with the person you mention. Because the majority of the ancestors of my iris grandmother Mary Louisa Acheson was CoI the intermarriage brings familytrees "together"!
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: Maggsie on Tuesday 09 February 21 11:56 GMT (UK)
Hi, Yes, maybe.
Riversdale I mention was a House.
Maggsie
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: LH on Thursday 14 July 22 19:03 BST (UK)
Hi Maggsie

Have you come across a Robert Powel(l) who married and lived in Clonlara.  His dau Eliza married my gg grandfather in 1843 in Kiltenanlea Parish Church, but the record was destroyed.  The name Francis Powell features also and I suspect he may have been a brother to Robert.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: Maggsie on Thursday 14 July 22 19:11 BST (UK)
Eliza Powell married your GG Grandfather and his name was .....?
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: LH on Friday 15 July 22 06:45 BST (UK)
Hi

Gg grandfather was John Warren.
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: Maggsie on Friday 15 July 22 09:54 BST (UK)
Sorry, next question,
Robert Powell..........
Did they have a son John and did he have a daughter Lillie?
Maggsie


Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: LH on Friday 15 July 22 18:41 BST (UK)
Hi

Thanks for your reply.

As far as I know, he didn't have any sons.... but I may be wrong.

Its all so frustrating as I've been searching for decades.

Any help would be marvellous.

Kind regards
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: LH on Monday 18 July 22 15:04 BST (UK)
Hi Maggsie

Where and when did the Robert Powell you mention, have a son John?  Who did John marry and do you know when Lily was born?

Never heard of a son John... so I'd like to check him out, just in case.

Any other thoughts?

Regards
Title: Re: Powell of Roscrea - 18th/19thC
Post by: Maggsie on Monday 18 July 22 18:15 BST (UK)
ooops sorry,
My mistake, wrong name and place.
The only Robert Powell I can find is in KILVELLANE County Tipperary. 1848 and 1850 in Griffiths valuation. The townland is SCRAGGEEN.
This map shows the area.
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/TIP/Kilvellane
I am sending a Private Message.
Maggsie