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Title: Powell - Beamish Marriage?
Post by: Rosedale on Monday 26 May 25 13:13 BST (UK)
Hello, I am trying to trace back an Emma Powell.  She married a John Beamish at St. Mary's-On-The-Hill, Chester on 24 December 1826.  They moved to Ruabon, Wrexham area and eventually emigrated to Pennsylvania, USA around 1839.  On the USA censuses her year of birth is given around 1805.

I've done a DNA test on Ancestry and I have several DNA cousins with a not so far documented connection to Emma, and I myself am a Powell.  My own Powell's go back to 1805 in Flintshire, Wales where I've then got a brick wall.  I'm hoping finding out where Emma was from, might help me to trace my own line back.

Many thanks
Title: Re: Powell - Beamish Marriage?
Post by: Ladyhawk on Monday 26 May 25 14:41 BST (UK)
Familysearch has a baptism Emma Powell 25 Jul 1806 Radnorshire, Wales
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCY9-JS5?lang=en
- original image is available to view on F M P

Did they have a son named Peter Beamish? This record gives her maiden name Paul, both parents born England  :( - image available to view on Anc*y

Peter Beemish Death Age   75
Birth 6 Feb 1837  England
Death 4 Mar 1912 Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, USA
Father John Beemish Mother   Emma Paul
Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1972
Title: Re: Powell - Beamish Marriage?
Post by: trish1120 on Monday 26 May 25 14:46 BST (UK)
There are a lot of Powells marrying St Mary on the Hill +/-5 years of Emma/John.
(FreeREG)
May be worth following some of them up on Census to see where they were born.

I can see 3 children bapt Ruabon to John/Emma
John 1834
Margaret 1835
Peter 1837
Title: Re: Powell - Beamish Marriage?
Post by: Ladyhawk on Monday 26 May 25 15:15 BST (UK)
There are a lot of Powells marrying St Mary on the Hill +/-5 years of Emma/John.
(FreeREG)
May be worth following some of them up on Census to see where they were born.

I can see 3 children bapt Ruabon to John/Emma
John 1834
Margaret 1835
Peter 1837


   
Margaret Beamish
bpt 26 Jul 1835 Ruabon, Denbighshire
Daughter of John occ coker and Emma abode Cefn-Mawr

John Baymish
bpt 23 Feb 1844  Ruabon, Denbighshire
son of John & Emma abode Cefn-Mawr
As posted by Trish Bpt. year 1834 wrongly transcribed on Anc*y as 1844

Edit for info. for anyone else that can help

Hello, I am trying to trace back an Emma Powell.  She married a John Beamish at St. Mary's-On-The-Hill, Chester on 24 December 1826. 

John's surname  BAIMISH, occ labourer on 1826 marriage, both made their mark


Title: Re: Powell - Beamish Marriage?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 26 May 25 16:07 BST (UK)
Do you have this (I see that you ref the US censuses)

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXPJ-JMS?lang=en

1860 Millville Borough, Cambria, Penn, US

John Beamish 51, b. Eng.
Emma, 55, b. Wales
Peter, 23, b. Wales
Daniel, 15, b. Penn
Emma, 15, b. Penn


Add - the Radnorshire  bapt is the only one that I can see so far in Wales.
Title: Re: Powell - Beamish Marriage?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 26 May 25 16:52 BST (UK)
Also in 1850

Brady Bend, Armstrong, Penn

John Bemish, 45, coker,
Emmy, 45
John.16
Margaret,15
Peter, 13       all born England
George, 11 b Penn
** Daniel    5
Emmy   5    Twins b. Penn


** David written in error
           
                                   

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M44X-QYT?lang=en
Title: Re: Powell - Beamish Marriage?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 26 May 25 17:34 BST (UK)
There doesn't seem to be a naming pattern.
Title: Re: Powell - Beamish Marriage?
Post by: Rosedale on Monday 26 May 25 19:19 BST (UK)
Thank you all.  I hadn't seen the census showing that Emma was born in Wales - that's really helpful to try to narrow down area, and the children's names born in Wales to see if there is some kind of pattern.
I've looked into the Emma Powell born in Radnor and there is a marriage not far away that may connect with that baptism.  I'll have a look into the other Powell's marrying at St. Mary's-On-The-Hill as well.

Familysearch has a baptism Emma Powell 25 Jul 1806 Radnorshire, Wales
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCY9-JS5?lang=en
- original image is available to view on F M P

Did they have a son named Peter Beamish? This record gives her maiden name Paul, both parents born England  :( - image available to view on Anc*y

Peter Beemish Death Age   75
Birth 6 Feb 1837  England
Death 4 Mar 1912 Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, USA
Father John Beemish Mother   Emma Paul
Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1972

Thank you for the census information.  That is the right family!  I am certain that her maiden name is misspellt on that death certificate, and that the John  Beamish and Emma Powell marriage is correct - one of her children married somebody with the surname Paull (that family were from Cornwall) so perhaps that spelling would have been familiar to them.  :D

Title: Re: Powell - Beamish Marriage?
Post by: Ladyhawk on Monday 26 May 25 23:26 BST (UK)
one of her children married somebody with the surname Paull (that family were from Cornwall) so perhaps that spelling would have been familiar to them.  :D

Their daughter Margaret married to a Thomas Paull
1860 c https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWDP-JGH?lang=en
Burial https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14454462/margaret-paull