Looking for the family and birthplace of Susannah Powell

[Angelathomas]

Thank you so much everyone. it was a bit like the elves and the shoemaker. I go to bed and wake up to find lots of work has been done! I did find the birth of Susanna Powell in Llandysul on Familysearch Mazi but I could only find the place in Breconshire. the bit about the Earl of Powys was very interesting and worth following up. I've just found the banns of John Powell and Susanna Thomas in 1781 at Forden Montgomeryshire so I'm going to pursue that. thanks again for your help.

[mazi]

familysearch are offering" Montgomeryshire parish records" as a source of some entries, churchstoke originals are held at Shropshire archives, it might be worth a tedious search of the batch numbers, or the archer/hugh wallis sites to see if churchstoke is included in Montgomery,
 : a task beyond me, I'm afraid. 

good luck
mike

[Angelathomas]

Thank you again 

[Bryn Celyn]

Church Stoke baptisms - Family Search - Montgomeryshire - batch No C157841 - 1828 only

Findmypast which have a lot of Welsh parish records do not have any for Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire.

[mazi]

Church Stoke baptisms - Family Search - Montgomeryshire - batch No C157841 - 1828 only

Findmypast which have a lot of Welsh parish records do not have any for Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire.

  so we have been looking in the wrong haystack for a needle that wasn't there 

I have tried Powys archives, Shropshire archives, and Montgomeryshire genealogical society and it seems to me a trip to Shropshire archives to look at the microfiche may be the only answer

Interestingly the Montgomery society have a fair later this month
guess where --------------- Churchstoke 

[Angelathomas]

Thank you Bryn Celyn and.Mazi. I've persuaded my husband that a trip to Shropshire and Churchstoke would be worthwhile!

[Angelathomas]

One more thing. I was struck when I started this research by the fact that Susannah had a daughter called Charlotte. My ancestors are usually from the lower social orders, miners, tradesmen or agricultural labourers. Charlotte is not a name I have come across in my family. however the Duchess of Northumberland that you mentioned Mazi was called Charlotte!