Look up request for Pow family living in Bridgeport Fairfield CT USA *COMPLETED

[Muffin41]

Thank you for the update about Buckley. That´s filled in another gap in my information.

Muffin

[Muffin41]

I have found a note with this person, maybe you can find a few details

Gail Pow born about

Parents - James Alfred Pow and Mae Margaret Baker who married July 1834 in Stratford Fairfield CT  Gail married a Steven Howard - nothing else known.

Muffin

[shellyesq]

I found the marriage index entry for Gail.  I'll send it in a PM with the other stuff I found.

[aghadowey]

Do you mean the marriage was in 1935?
Details of possible living people shouldn't be posted here so if anyone can help with more details they can send you a pm with the information.

See that my post crossed with one from Shellyesq.

[shellyesq]

Found these in the CT Death Index:
FREDERICK S. POWE
Father's surname: Pow 
Died 30 Sep 1987 in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Age: 78 Years
Born Connecticut 4 June 1909
Marital Status: Married 
Spouse: Kathl 
Occupation: Retired Proprietor of Powe Bros. Fuel & Service Station 
Residence: 30 Frances Terr. Stratford, Connecticut
Race: White 

Kathleen J. Powe
Father's surname:  Nowell
Died 8 Mar 1990 in Bridgeport
Age 77
Born Bridgeport, 28 Jun 1912
Widowed
Spouse:  Frede
Occupation - homemaker
Education:  Primary/secondary
Residence: 30 Frances Terr. Stratford, Connecticut
Female, white, not of Hispanic origin

[Muffin41]

Thank you both again for your help, I have enough now to fill in my tree.

I realize that one should not post details of living persons.

When the person is old it is not easy to say when they are still alive or not.

The pm from Shellyesq has given me that info which I would not have been given in this topic.

Muffin41

[aghadowey]

Glad that you've gotten enough information to fill in the gaps Muffin. Just in case you don't know the area Stratford is next to the town of Bridgeport. Bridgeport has two hospitals, Bridgeport and St. Joseph's (at least they were there in the 1980s), which might be why some of the Pows died in Bridgeport.

[martinsimons1]

I may have some information about the Elizabeth Westman who married Henry P Pow in 1897 in Bridgeport Fairfield C. [I've researched all Irish-born Westmans living in England, family by family through the censuses, whilst trying to trace my own family of Westmans.]

I believe Elizabeth to be the daughter of George and Margaret Westman (both born Queen's Co, Ireland). George married Margaret (Cohen or Farrell) in 1865 Bradford, Yorks (from BMDs). George and Margaret and their family appear in the 1871 and 1881 censuses in  Bradford, Yorks, England, and appear to have emigrated from Ireland to England after 1861 and before 1871 and from England to the US in the 1880s.

George, I believe, is the son of Anne Westman born Ireland who also appears in the 1871 and 1881 censuses in Bradford, Yorks.

1871
Anne         50          head/widow       b. Ireland
William      25          son                   "
Mary          20          dau                  "
Lizzie         15          dau                  "
Margaret    13          dau                  "
Living 119 Grace Church St, Bradford

George       29         head                 b. Ireland
Margaret     26         wife                  "
Annie          4          dau                   Yorks
William        2          son                   "
Daniel          1          son
Living 44 Abbey St, Bradford
             
1881
Ann          60         in-law                 Ireland
Living with daughter Bridget and her husband Martin Hirson/Herson.

George      40         head                  Queens Co
Margaret    36         wife                   "
Margaret    22         sister                 "
Annie         13         dau                   Yorks
William      11          son                    Lancs
Daniel        10         son                    Manningham
Julia           8           dau                   "
Eliza           6           dau                   "
Mary           4          dau                    "
Joseph        2          son                    "
George       8 mon   son                    "
Living 69 Chassum? St, Manningham, Bradford

George and his family emigrate to the US in the 1880s. George himself in abt. 1882 (according to 1900 census), children William and Annie in 1886 on The Queen, son Daniel in 1887 on The Wisconsin, and wife Margaret and remaining children in 1888 on The Alaska.

By 1900 I've only been able to find records for George, a widow and carpenter, and sons William and Daniel, weavers, and a dau, Kate (?) living in Bridgeport, Fairfield, CT. I haven't been able to find anything else about the family after this census and don't have access to marriage and death records for the area.

So could George's daughter Eliza/Elizabeth be Henry Pow's wife? Don't think there are any other Westmans connected to Bridgeport.

Hope of some help/interest.

Judith

[aghadowey]

Welcome to Rootschat, Judith 

First I have to correct an embarrassing mistake in my earlier post 

... Bridgeport has two hospitals, Bridgeport and St. Joseph's (at least they were there in the 1980s), which might be why some of the Pows died in Bridgeport.

It should read St. Vincent's not St. Joseph's (embarassing because my little sister was born at St. Vincent's).

Here's the link to George Westman that you found in 1900 census-
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9Q6-DV7

Could this be one of your English Westman's or just a co-incidence? (nearly same age as George's daughter in 1881 census)- Mary Westman, age 24:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9QD-K8G

Joseph Westman here in 1900 along with what is probably brother George-
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9QX-M71

Son William in 1900? https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9QD-86B