Hallo again - you brightened up our day!! - we have been trying to solve this for weeks - but still no where near a result. The marriage certificate of Mary definitely says that her name is MARY EDWARDS - I can understand they could have made a mistake with his name but we feel he should be a Edwards whatever his christian name may be!!! - do you agree? she married in the Parish Church of Aberystruth - where is this? (1844) Is it St. Peters Blaina or the church in Llanelly Breconshire Thanks Mary > > From: "Robert Treharne Jones" <tjwizard@tiscali.co.uk> > Date: 2007/05/06 Sun AM 11:02:39 BST > To: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [MON] powell edwards > > Aha! Finally found him - his name in 1901 was Powell Edward (without the > 's'), hence the possibility that is forename and surname were interposed. In > fact that's EXACTLY what happened - if you examine the census return in > details there's a (2) over the word Powell and a (1) over the word Edward so > the enumerator recognised the error. > > His occupation is listed a general labourer and place of birth as > Llanganten, an ancient parish in the Builth area which no longer exists. > > With that information the following is available from the censuses: > > 1871 Working as a farm labourer and lodging with the Jones family at > Llangyfelach, Glamorgan. > > 1861 Working as a waggoner and general agricultural labourer and lodging > with the Williams family in Llannon, Carmarthenshire > > 1851 Working as a servant with the Price family (farmers) in Llanelwedd, > Radnorshire > > 1841 Living in Llanganten with his parents Edward, 45, and Marcy (sic), 40, > plus siblings Mary, 3, Rees, 9, and Samuel and William, both 5. > > Of course this doesn't tie in with what you state regarding Mary's marriage > to John Jones in 1844 when she would only have been 6 years old, nor the > family living in Nantyglo. However no other Edward Powell that I could find > comes near to the critical data of 'Llanganten 1829' so I'm assuming that > this Edward Powell is not the correct one for your family and the 1901 data > is a red herring. > > It's now worth looking for 'Edward Powell' in the early censuses for > Nantyglo/Aberystruth. > > Robert > > > -----Original Message----- > From: monmouthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:monmouthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of > mary.howells1@tesco.net > Hallo - thanks for your interest - we know its not Blane However on 1901 > Census we found a Powell eDWARDS AGED 72 BORN 1829 INMATE AT aSYLUM IN > bUILTH bRECONSHIRE.It says born in Llangenten - which could be anywhere in > Wales!!!! It questions the fact that he may have is name wrong way round - > however on the marriage certificate of his daughter Mary it says fatheer > POwell Edwards farmer. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: monmouthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com > > [mailto:monmouthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of > > mary.howells1@tesco.net > > Looking for Powell ewdwards all we know is that his daughter Mary married > a > > John Jones in 1844 at the Parish Church of Aberystruth.They were resident > > at time in Nantyglo.Mary was born in 1826. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >