Thomas James# GEORGE-POWELL

  General Notes:

Education; MTGP has info somewhere.

1911 Census; Living as son (age 6, PoB Godstone) at Rutland House, Trowbridge, Wilts (house has 10 rooms), with father, step mother and servant Louisa Smith, Katharine at boarding school.

Roads and road construction: a monthly record of road engineering ..., Volume 13 ; 1935 ; Gloucestershire C.C. Appointment; Mr. TJ George- Powell, until recently with the Bucks. CC, has been appointed Resident Engineer for the Gloucestershire CC on the Filton-Patchway By-pass Road.

From Wendy H;The Times 23 April 1940. Marriages GEORGE POWELL : ST JOHN WRIGHT. On April 18 1940 at St Lawrence Church, Cheltenham, Thomas George Powell, of Bath & Gloucester to Ann St John Wright, of Swindon, Cheltenham.

Witnesses at wedding were Gladys Griffiths (Ann's aunt), Kate George-Powell (Thomas' sister) and Arthur St John Wright (Ann's Uncle)

Career; Municipal Engineer at the Leeds City Architects Department, prior to that similar job in Glos. Primary responsibility was the building of roads, mainly planning layout for the new estates built in Leeds after WW2, eg: Seacroft, Ireland Wood, Whinmoor etc

Reserved occupation in WWII; but we have found letters to and from his employers with him asking to take leave of abscence till the end of the war to serve in the Royal Engineers .. and letters back saying under no circumstances was he to join the army, and that the army had been informed that they were not to take him as his civilian work was too important.

Newspaper clipping (presumably) mid-forties supplied by Jane Harris "The late Miss F.E.C. Smith, Funeral at St Michael's Cemetery, Bath. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon of Miss F.E.C.Smith, who passed away suddenly in her sleep at a Bath nursing home on February 13th. ....... After cremation, the ashes, in a small casket, were brought back to Bath and interred in St Michael's Cemetery, in the same grave in which only a month ago Mrs Gabriel Williams of 33 Pulteney Street was buried. Miss Smith had lived with Mrs Williams for 49 years, starting as nurse to a large family and ending as a dearly loved friend. The funeral party started from 22 Henrietta Street, where Miss Smith was to have resided with Mrs J George-Powell, a daughter of Mrs. Williams. Present at the interment, at which the Rev. R Cameron officiated were Mr and Mrs J George-Powell, Miss George-Powell, Mr.T.George-Powell, Mr.P.Williams, Mrs.J.Smith (sister-in-law), Mr J Smith (great nephew), Miss D Williams, Miss Wilson, Mrs.T.W.Marshall, Mrs.Janes and Miss Wilkie. Flowers were by the following:- To my darling Smithie in memory of a life-time of devotion from Gwen George-Powell; in affectionate memory of my dear old friend "Smithie", from J.George-Powell; to dearest Miss Smith with love from Katie and Tom ..... " etc.. One of the other names further down the list of flowers are

'Lydia and Pierpont Williams' MTGP remembers reference to a Pierrepoint Williams. Lydia (nee Steer) is Jane Harris' gran.
and
'Mr and Mrs Ganderton' who MTGP thinks worked with either James or Tom .
Furthermore Jane states "My mother has memories of Tom driving Aunt Gwen to see her brother (my mother’s father) in Somerset when she was a young girl. My mum was born in 1933 and so I have a feeling that this must have been during the War. My mum was very close to her Aunt Gwen and was even named after her."

Marriage Residences;
2 different addresses in Stow-On-The-Wold, on marriage cert. it is 'Wayside'
345 Easterley Road, Leeds - 1944 - 19??
50 The Drive, Gledhow, Leeds 8 - 19?? - 1957 (?)
28 Gledhow Avenue, Leeds 8 1957? till death

Thomas married Ann St John# WRIGHT, daughter of Christopher St John# WRIGHT and Violet Mabel# GRIFFITHS, on 18 Apr 1940 in St.Lawrence Church, Swindon Village, Glos. (Ann St John# WRIGHT was born on 27 Apr 1917 in 'Bancroft', 10 Mitten Road, Bexhill, East Sussex.)