POW Surname look up please

[Phitzy]

Hello,

I hope I have the correct list with which to request this look up.

I am researching my great, great grandfather William POW.  William was transported to Tasmania in 1846.  He was sentenced to 15 years for stealing.  On his convict record it states his native place as "Near Bristol" and he was tried in Wells, Somerset.

He is listed as being married with one child, which is interesting as he remarried in Tasmania and started my family line.

From what I can make out from the writing he lists his family as

Wife - Mary
Father - William
Mother - Elizabeth
Brother - James
Sisters - Elizabeth, Martha and Eliza

If I have the correct list for requests, could someone please look up William POW for me?

Thank you in advance and please let me know if any further information is required - I don't have much more.

Helen (South Australia)

[SueTeakle]

Hi Phitzy,

I haven`t picked up on William yet, but there is this family which could be a possibility for his in 1841

William Pow, 45, Labourer, Y (Born in County)
Elizabeth Pow, 45, Y
Martha Pow, 15, Y
Ann(?) Pow, 10, Y
Mary Pow, 5, Y
James Pow, 20, Y

Living in North(?) Street, Bedminster, Bristol
HO107/376/7/14/22


Sue

[Phitzy]

Thanks Sue,

Could be a match - reading the convict records is quite difficult, the writing is very stylised and because they are photocopies the image isn't as clear as it could be.  Cannot make out Ann or Mary as a sister though.  William was was 33 when he was tried at Wells, Somerset in 1845 so his DOB would be ABT 1812.  James - on the list you sent is 20 in 1841 making his DOB 1821 - that is a big gap between children.

Do you know if I would be able to get a copy of William's conviction record from the Quarter Sessions at Wells Somerset?  Not sure how to go about it.

Thanks Helen

[SueTeakle]

You could try emailing the Record Office at Wells:-mailto:wells.cc@virgin.net

I`m still trying to track down William, no luck so far 


Sue

[Phitzy]

Thanks Sue - will do - appreciate your help

Cheers Helen

[SueTeakle]

My pleasure 


Sue

[chrissyst]

Hi Helen
re William Pow or Powe
I have him in my family tree .
He married another convict Belinda (Nappy) King

POW William (Mayda)
Mayda had one voyage only as a convict ship departing Woolwich on 29.8.1845 arriving Norfolk Island 8.1.1846
Total number landed 195 (4 died onboard)
1858 William Pow owner in fee of land (10 acres) at Gawler River East, resident at Alfred H. Poole's house, Gawler River.

He married Nappy on the 18.8.1868 All Saints Church of England Forth Tasmania
witnesses were Ellen A Brown and Maria Templer (or sometimes templar)
by licence granted 17.8.1868
he was stepfather to Nappys son Izod Darcy King
he had a son toe Nappy named Percival (John) Powe born 1855 died 1956 buried at Fawkner Cemetery in Victoria 2.8.1956

He married Charlotte Jane Stone
21.12.1874 Parish of Forth and Leven Tasmania

Charlotte Jane Stone was the daughter of John Stone and Jane Morris
(Jane Morris was also a convict)

Jane married John Stone in 1853 and had 6 children
John died in 1897
Jane had previously been married in 1840 to Stephen Radford and had 6 children
Her son Charles E Radford married Charlotte Louisa Nunn (my great great grandparents)
their daughter Alice Jane Radford married William Hanson (my great parents)
their son Robert Hanson married Lillian Burney (my grandparents my fathers side)
my father was Cecil Bennett Hanson who married Doreen Alice Barry
Me
my three children
my 6 grand daughters and 1 grandson

thats my tree

I have the full story on nappy kings life in Tasmania and her sentence

let me know if you want anything more

chrissy

[eaglehawk]

Thanks Sue - will do - appreciate your help

Cheers Helen

Notice - Claridge name in your research. Have found a Pow/Power recorded for Tasmania, Australia. Claridge is my line Ruth

[chrissyst]

Hi
be happy to help-
this is the convict entry on tas archives -    Pow   William            08 Jan 1846   Mayda   29 Aug 1845   Woolwich   Off Norfolk Island per Pestongee Bomangee May 1847

Look up convict record  CO 17/1/2 Page 174 says
Pow, William - single - 5'101/4 - age 33 - occ Farm Labourer - Status married - Religion - C of E - Neither read or write - Relatives where last residing....(M) Mary, (F) William, (M) Eliza, (B) James (S) Elizabeth, Martha, Eliza

offence - Stealing a woollen hurdle property of Mr Nash
Sentenced to transportation for life for Horse Stealing and got off with 9 years and transported.

POW William (Mayda)
Mayda had one voyage only as a convict ship departing Woolwich on 29.8.1845 arriving Norfolk Island 8.1.1846
Total number landed 195 (4 died onboard)

From September 1844 until 1856, when it closed as a penal settlement, Norfolk Island was under the jurisdiction of the Tasmanian Government, and was staffed by the Tasmanian Convict Department. Throughout this period, male convicts were being transferred from there to Tasmania, as a result of their sentences there having expired; some had been sent there from Tasmania, others had been sent direct from Great Britain.

His conduct record has the following additional infomation

Came out on Mayda departed 29.8.1845  arrived Norfolk island 8.1.1846
To Tasmania on Perstongee Bomangee arrived 19.5.1847
Native place ? Bristol (couldnt read first part of place )
Tried at Wills Sessions 25.3.1845
Applied to marry Nappy King also a convict per Australasia on 19.7.1853

On application in the gazette it reads William Pow and Nappy King  gazetted 20.7.1853 and recommended 27.7.1853

1858 William Pow owner in fee of land (10 acres) at Gawler River East, resident at Alfred H. Poole's house, Gawler River

I had a look in my Norfok Island 1798 to 1813 book but it doesnt go up to 1853 next time i am at the library I will see if there is a sequel to it .


19 July 1853- Application for permission to marry Nappy King (ex Australasia) withdrawn 20 July, -withdrawn 11 January 1854, cancelled (approved 27 July) c1853- formed a de facto relationship with William Pow

eventually married 18.8.1868
All Saints church of england Forth Tasmania witnesses Ellen A Browne ande Maria Templar (licence granted 17.August).

My family line comes into when their son Percival Powe married Charlotte Stone in 1874
Charlotte Stone was the daughter of John Stone and Jane Morris.  Jane Morris was also a convict .  Jane had previously been married to Stephen Radfor din 1840 ...She married John Stone in 1853 sometime after Stephen went to the Mainland possibly Geelong with his son and never returned.

If you need any more help let me know

chrissy