George# Powell

  Notes:

ALL POWELL INFO 'ABOVE' HERE IS A LITTLE SPECULATIVE - but seems to hang together.

Originally thought YoB was ~1811 due to age on '41 census. However death record indicates YoB actually ~1802, this leads to possible parents James and Mary after finding EH chr. However we don't know exactly where he was born, and not all parishes (inc Dulas) are on the IGI. We do know however that his mother is Mary ('cos mentioned in his will) and that he had a brother James so seems likely that the parents shown as correct.

Later found bapt in Hereford CRO on EH PR's "George the son of James and Mary Powell was bapt Feb 1802" (can't actually read the date).

FHS Wedding Search;
GEORGE POWELL Bride ELIZABETH PRITCHARD Day 11 Month 09 Year 1834 Place of marriage EWYAS HAROLD (HEF) Licence? L Notes +(W)DEWLAS. This definately confirmed (that Elizabeth is nee Pritchard) when got Ambrose's birth cert.

HOWEVER; further information was that he was a widower at the time of that marriage.
There is an Ann Powell buried in Clodock on 27 May 1833, abode = PLATCH and age = 26. So this is almost certainly his first wife, and thus George jnrs mother. Then found their marriage.
Later also found the marriage in the EH PR's in Hereford CRO "George Powell a bachelor otp and Ann Christopher a spinster otp were married by licence 2nd Day of December 1829. Proper signatures. Witnesses were James Powell and Mary Lewes" Was the James Powell his father or the older brother ?

Also found the second marriage in EH PR's in Hereford CRO "George Powell a widower of the parish of Dewlas (Dulas) in the Co of Hereford and Elizabeth Pritchard a spinster otp where married by licence on this 11th day of September 1834. Proper signatures. Witnesses were Jas (James) Powell and xxxx Pritchard".

Dore Workhouse in Victorian Times, by Nancy Elliot "As workhouses went, the Dore one was small, built for eighty to a hundred people. By 1836 the Act had been implemented in Hereford where a workhouse for three hundred had been built (now part of the County Hospital buildings). Building began, too, in Ross-on-Wye, Kington, Ledbury, Weobley, Bromyard and Leominster. But it was not until April 11th, 1837 that the first meeting of the Dore Union Guardians took place. They met at the Red Lion, Abbey Dore (the site now of Abbey Dore Court). The elected Guardians, each chosen by the ratepayers of his parish, joined ex-officio members from the local gentry and clergy. Those at the first meeting included Edward Bolton Clive, Esq., M.P. for Hereford City, the Dean of Hereford, E.G. Head, Esq., Colonel Clive, Thomas Delahay, Esq., W. Seward Wood Esq. and Henry Scudamore, Esq. Among the locally elected, tenant or freehold farmers, were GEORGE POWELL from DULAS, William Bill from Kentchurch, Philip Lewis of the Keyo, Wormbridge, and William Matthews of Abbey Dore. " In the 1841 census he is the only George Powell over 21 in Dulas, so I presume this is him ?!

1839 ; Ambrose's birth cert. gives George's occupation as Farmer. And signature is 'the mark of' so presumably he couldn't write (but he signed his will?).

1841 Census (age circa 30) living as head of household at Platch Farm, Dulas with wife, 4 children, and 3 agricultural labourers (John WILLIAMS 18, Henry Herbert 55 and Sarah LEWIS 16). Actually Williams and Lewis may NOT be agricultural labourers, hard to read.
NB; Looks like Platch Farm on census, but map says Plash Farm. However farm is actually called Platch Farm if you visit it.

His death cert is ; 30th March 1849 at Dulas. George Powell, male, 47 years, farmer. Diseased heart. Certified. Informant; Ann Duce (Bruce?) 'in attendance' Dulas.

Hereford Times; Sat 7 April 1849; Deaths; 30th ult, after a long and painful illness, aged 47, Mr George Powell of the Plash Farm, Dulas, in this county.

Also found burial record in the EH PR's at Hereford CRO ; George Powell of The Platch (Parish of Dulas) buried in EH aged 47 on April 2 1849.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukhfhs/mipi.html ; he is mentioned on headstone of first wife Ann in Clodock churchyard. Definately correct people as know she is 'of Platch'. Didn't see this grave when I was down there, will need to look again !

Found his will on a2a.
Welsh Probate Records, Archdeaconry of Brecon
FILE - George Powell, Farmer/Freeholder - ref. BR/1850/18 - date: 1850
Will.
Diocese; Brecon
Parish; Dulas
Township; PLATCH FARM
County; Hereford

This led us to a) his mothers name (and approx death), b) his death (and thus his YoB) and c) his illegitimate son.
Reads;
This is the last will and testament of me George Powell of the Platch Farm in the Parish of Dulas in the County of Hereford, Farmer and Freeholder. I hereby give devise and bequeath in trust to my Executors herein after to be named all that my Freehold Estate Called and Known by the name of Platch Farm together with all lands, buildings and premises thereto belonging, for the following purposes, that is, that they carry out in full the wishes and intentions of my late mother, Mary Powell's will, being dated the 25th day of July 1842 which the said Estate was left to me and to my Children lawfully begotten x xxx. I also hereby give in to my said Executors all my Stock, Crops and Implements I may die possessed of to be equally divided between my Wife Elizabeth Powell and my six lawfully begotten children in equal part, but subject nevertheless to the payment of ten pounds which I hereby direct my Executors to pay out of the said Stock, Crops and Implements to George Pritchard my son before marriage the same to be paid to him in 12 months after my decease. I also devise that the Bed, Bedstead and hangings in the Parlour, the Corner Cupboard, Chest and Drawers also a Chest a stxxxxx Bedstead, Clock, two xxxxed table, two Hxxxxhead Fire xxxx, Cheese Press(?), powdering tub, xxxxing iron(?), side saddle and looking glass be given to my two eldest sons James Powell and George Powell in equal parts. And all the rest and residue of the furniture I may die possessed of I wish to be equally divided between my wife Elizabeth Powell and my four younger children. I also hereby give and devise to my son George Powell all that my leasehold land adjoining to Ewyas Harold Common(?) at present in the occupation of William Levis (Lewis?) of the Grxxx (Grange?). I hereby also desire my Executors to pay all my just debts and testamentary expenses out of the stock and crops I may die possessed of. And I do hereby nominate xxxxxxx and appoint my wife Elizabeth Powell and John Lewis of the Gann(?) Farm in Township of Longtown joint executors of this my last will and testament and do hereby give John Lewis the said executor ten pounds for the trouble he may have in carrying out this my will. In xxxx thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 2nd day of January 1849.
Shaky 'George Powell' signature
Witnesses Charles Proberts (?) and 'X' the mark of John Foster.
Will registered 17 day of July 1850. Effects sworn under one hundred pounds and the testator died on the 30th day of March 1849.

NB; A Wm Lewis of The Garn died in 1821 and left the property to his wife, but then to his son Wm. Presumably this is the person occupying the EH land. Interestingly a Mary CHRISTOPHER (possible for Ann's mother) was one of the witnesses to this will. Possible for Ann's mother's surname is Lewis.

In the 1804 will of Ann Lewis, wife of Thomas Lewis of Castlebach, she leaves a property to her great nephew, David WATKINS, unless he has already been left The Plash at Dulas by her husband. Watkins keeps cropping up.

Herefordshire Records Office. "Documents relating to a property called The Plash in Dulas, 1781.
Description:
P8/40 Lease for a year 19th June 1781.
(1) Thomas LEWIS of Longtown, yeoman.
(2) William Gilbert of Longtown, Gent. Philip Lewis of Longtown, yeoman.
Consideration 5 shillings.
Messuage or tenement known as The Plash, in the parish of Dulas.
One Peppercorn.
P8/41 Release of marriage Settlement. 28 June 1781.
(1) Thomas LEWIS of Longtown, yeoman.
(2) Ann Jones of Longtown, Spinster.
(3) William Gilbert of Longtown, Gent and Phillip LEWIS of Longtown, Yeoman.
Consideration. A marriage between (1) and (2). The personal estate of Ann Jones and 5 shillings.
Property known as The Plash.
Endorsed: Reciting deeds 29th and 30th January 1841 [this may be a mis-type for 1741 or 1781?]

George# married Ann# Christopher, daughter of William# Christopher and Mary# Lewis, on 2 Dec 1829 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire. (Ann# Christopher was born in 1806 in Clodock, Herefordshire, christened on 21 Dec 1806 in Rowlestone, Herefordshire, died in 1833 and was buried on 27 May 1833 in Clodock, Herefordshire.)

George# next married Elizabeth Pritchard on 11 Sep 1834 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire. (Elizabeth Pritchard was born in 1802 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire and died on 29 Jul 1889 in Lower House, Longtown, Herefordshire.)