Hello, Further to my query asking for information on the above family I can pass on to anyone who is interested in either family that Thomas Powney was born in Madras in 1775 and died in London in 1847, six years after marrying Ann Ridout at Southampton. There were, naturally no children, but they did 'adopt' a young niece on the Ridout side who later became my great grandmother, Anna Parkinson,nee Robinson, something I only discovered when I obtained a copy of Thos Powney's will