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South Africa / Re: Rev. William John Powell
« on: Wednesday 19 November 25 10:36 GMT (UK)  »
I think that what you are suggesting is quite likely.

Edna was the informant on his death certificate of 1953 at Croydon, Surrey. This would mean birth around 1902/3.

Interestingly, an Eliza Powell (of about the right age) died in the 2nd Qtr of 1954 at Haslingden, Lancs. This was where Edna's father came from.

Gordon

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South Africa / Re: Rev. William John Powell
« on: Tuesday 18 November 25 09:07 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the various replies.

The son's name was William James Powell, who has no birth record in the UK. He was born between 1902 and 1906. From his death record (1953 in Croydon, Surrey) age 50, earliest could be 1902. But, his marriage record (1948 in Camberwell, London) age 42, suggests birth about 1906.

The boy arriving in 1907, aged 10, could have been an older brother, I suppose.

Eliza Johnson was my gt-grandmother's sister, who last appears on the 1891 Census, as a nurse, working for a doctor in Bristol. I think that she was living with her father's youngest sister, who lived in Bedminster, which might account for Bedminster as her birthplace. Her younger brother, James, went to South Africa with the Somerset Light Infantry during the Boer War. I think that Eliza probably went with him.

The William James Powell, concerned here, does not appear on any UK records before his marriage in 1948 to Edna Holt. 

I suppose he might have served in the British Forces during WW2, but have no way of exploring this. His marriage record says that he was an engineer servicing launderette machines, which might suggest REME or something similar.

Gordon

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South Africa / Rev. William John Powell
« on: Sunday 16 November 25 16:26 GMT (UK)  »
I am hoping to find records of a Rev. William John Powell, whom I think would have been in Natal during the 1890s or 1900s. On his son's marriage record of 1948, the father is described as a "clerk in holy orders", which only applies to Anglican priests. The son married in London and the father was deceased at that time.

I think his wife's name was Eliza. (I have found records of Mrs Eliza Powell and son arriving at Southampton from Durban.)

I'm not sure which records (if any) might be useful.

Any help in making progress would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Gordon

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Burial record
« on: Thursday 06 November 25 22:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks

Gordon

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Burial record
« on: Thursday 06 November 25 20:12 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Can you tell me what the word is between

"Dyer" and "Buried" in the attached extract from a burial record for Edmund Dyer at Burford, Oxfordshire in 1690.

Thanks,

Gordon

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London and Middlesex / Re: City of London Anglican Churches with lost baptism records
« on: Friday 31 October 25 21:50 GMT (UK)  »
Thomas Duglas (1805 - ) died 1808 and buried at London Spa Fields, St James' Clerkenwell on 29th May 1808.

(They are using the Scottish naming pattern here. Thomas was the name of Charlotte's father and James was the name of William's father'. Then we have the parents' names: William and Charlotte.)

The record says that it was a non-conformist burial (perhaps not unusual for a Scottish Presbyterian).

Gordon

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London and Middlesex / Re: City of London Anglican Churches with lost baptism records
« on: Friday 31 October 25 21:41 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks.

I wonder if this Thomas died as an infant, as there was another son named Thomas, who was born at Shoreditch in 1820.

Or, did someone write Thomas for William?

Gordon

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London and Middlesex / Re: City of London Anglican Churches with lost baptism records
« on: Friday 31 October 25 11:46 GMT (UK)  »
P.S. St Olave's, Old Jewry, demolished in 1887, might be one such. It is quite near Coleman Street.

Gordon
 

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London and Middlesex / City of London Anglican Churches with lost baptism records
« on: Friday 31 October 25 11:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I have been unable to find the baptism of my gg-grandfather, William Douglas, although I have found the baptism of his six siblings in various churches in the City of London.

On the 1841 Census, his age was given as 30, as was his wife, who was born in 1807.

His elder brother, James Dyer Douglas was born in 1803 and baptised at St Dunstan's in the West on 5th Feb 1804.

His twin sisters, Amelia and Charlotte, were baptised at St Stephen Coleman Street on 17 Jun 1810.
(Amelia died as an infant and was buried at St Nicholas Cole Abbey on 16th Jan 1814.)

I think that William must have been baptised beteen 1804 and 1810, which is consistent with his 1841 Census record.

However, I think that it must have occurred at a church, which has no published baptisms.

(The parents were: William Douglas, a shoemaker, and Charlotte Dyer.)

Can anyone suggest which churches might fall into this category, please?

Any assistance most welcome.

Gordon

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