hi there

[brianb]

Greetings folks.
I am trying to put a family tree together where the branches keep dropping off (oops mistakes again !).
Have Powells in Wickwar Glouc, Wooldridge and Peters in (Motcombe Shaftsbury areas) Dorset, Hilliers in Burbage Wilts, Furnish in South Wales, Westlakes in Somerset and a few others to piece together if anyone can help, would be appreciated.
Have been struggling for a few months and have a mass of info I need to clarify and build a decent tree. I realsie from many others on this site I am still a learner so, will be happy to accept any tips.
All those below moving to Cardiff
Regards from South Wales
Brian

Joseph Powell (1838), Wickwar (and son Frederick Joseph Powell)
Lot (1809 / 1812) and Angelina Wooldridge Motcombe
Charles and Angelina Peters, Shaftsbury
John Westlake (Catcombe or Catgit Somerset)
Williams Hillier (1856), Burbage, Wilts
David Furnish London, with Mother Jane

[Bo Peep]

|wave|Hi Brian, and welcome to the Brit-Gen forum. I am so pleased you have chosen to be a member of our community.

When you have looked around the forum, please post your queries, giving as much information as you can, on the relevant board. Enjoy yourself.

[MarkJ]

Hi and welcome :)
I am fairly sure we should be able to help out here.
As Pam says, it is a good idea to post the names and dates, with any other info into the relevant section - e.g Charles and Angelina Peters into the Dorset forum. That way, those members who "specialise" in that area will find the query more easily.

Cheers,
Mark

Edit: The family show on the 1881 census at Wickwar.

Joseph POWELL Head 43 Wickwar, Gloucester, England Tailor
Elizabeth POWELL Wife 39 Thornbury, Gloucester, England
Frederick J. POWELL Son 11 Thornbury, Gloucester, England Scholar
Albert C. POWELL Son 9 Wickwar, Gloucester, England Scholar
Gertrude POWELL Daug 8 Wickwar, Gloucester, England Scholar
Edward E. POWELL Son 2 Wickwar, Gloucester, England
George TANNER Apprentice 20 Wickwar, Gloucester, England Tailors Apprentice


A probable birth for Joseph is -
Sept qtr, 1837
Chipping Sodbury district, vol 11, page 155.

If you either look in the 1841 census or get hold of the birth certificate (or both), you should be able to track down the parents of Joseph and any siblings who were living there at the time.
What information are you looking for on the families?

Mark

[brianb]

Good evening Mark and thanks ever so much for this information.

I had tracked the Powell info from basic searches to Wickwar and had today found (from a posting on this site how to track business directories) Joseph Powells buisnesses. I was aware he was a tailor but now seems a rate collector and overseer (not sure what that is actually) too.

For some reason his son Frederick Joseph Powell left the family home (which seemed reasonably comfortable, married Annie Marie Haines, a publicans daughter from Glouc and moved to Cardiff. His daughter is my grandmother who I was very close too and he is actually burried with her and her husband.

Untill very recently I wasnt aware of any connections like this, so its all new and interesting, but I had come to a halt so your input was great.

I would love to get more of a feel of this side of the family, maybe even track the shop in High street and go along to see it.

Now, I note your involvement in St Enoder which is particularly interesting for me too. My wifes family have a Richard tailor from St Ensder in Cornwall according to Census, am I correct this should be St Enoder (nearly all my family come at some time from England and few places are splet correctly, my gues being the welsh accents conflicting with Cornwall / Dorset/ somerset / wilts accents). Richard Tailor was born in 1832, but try as I might I cannot track him down (records seem to start a bit after that).

Richard married Mary Ann Baynton of Bristol, b1829 and their daughter Elizabeth married my wifes great great grandfather David Furnish in 1881, so I have gone back along way her and come to a halt, my wife and I holiday in Cornwall most years and had no idea she had relatives there so maybe next year we can look around !

Richards family were seemingly well to do (a collery agent in the Coal Exchange when Cardiff was a major exporter).

Finally

I am so greatful I chanced upon this site, it seems so friendly and helpful and I am sure I can use it and hopfully help others too.

Greetings from Cardiff

Brian

[MarkJ]

Ah! It does sound like he was a St Enoder boy!
I have a Richard TAYLOR baptism entry -

15 August 1831. Parents were John and Ann. John was an Excise man and they lived in Summercourt village, St Enoder Parish.

Hope that helps a little.
I will see if I can dig out any more information on the Taylors later - but I am off on the Dad Taxi run in a moment!

Mark

[Bo Peep]

St. Enoder
Lucinda TAYLOR dau of John & Ann, 02nd. August, 1829. Father - Excise Man.
Richard TAYLOR son of John & Ann, 15th. August, 1831. Father - Excise Man.

[Bo Peep]

Just in case!

Marazion
Charlotte TAYLOR dau of John & Anne, 28th. January, 1816. Father - Excise Officer.
Paul
Gertrude Mitchell TAYLOR dau of John & Ann, 01st. January, 1818. Father - Excise Officer.
Lavinia Mitchell TAYLOR dau of John & Ann, 22nd. September, 1819. Father - Excise Officer.
Padstow
Edward Charles Lyne TAYLOR son of John & Ann, 02nd. February, 1826. Father - Exciseman.

[MarkJ]

Little Lucinda seems to have died very young -

Burial 26 July 1830 aged 1. I have checked my transcriptions of the churchyard and cemetery and there is no headstone for Lucinda.


I agree with Pams dates for both Richard and Lucindas baptisms :)

No sign of the Taylor/Tailor family on the 1841 census in St Enoder, or 1851.
With John being an Excise man, I suspect he was transferred between 1831 and 1841.

As you probably have found, Richard and his family were living in Glamorgan in 1881.

As an aside, my daughter is studying at Cardiff University - its a small world!

Mark

[brianb]

Mark / Pam

my thanks for both of you inputs and friendship. A wonderful start to my site exploration on these pages.

The (Taylor) family home in 1881 (Upper George Street) is regretably no more, but I do remember the area prior to redevelopment, typical stone terrace, of reasonable size and a stone throw from Cardiffs Coal exchange where Richard would have worked, in a very responsible position, with both sons also in good jobs the family would have been comfortable there.

Richard and his family are living in Cardiff in 1861 with his in laws according to one search I did, but not confirmed.

As for the "dads taxi service", I know it too well, a non profit making past time of all us fathers (I have 4 children from 15 to 26 years), and I really do hope that Your daughter is happy in Cardiff, the University has an excelent record while the city is a great place (tho no beaches here !)

My thanks to you both again and I will hope to track a few others down on the site.

Best wishes

Brian