Henry POWYS

NOTE: Was he the Henry Powys at St John's, Oxford, matric 1735?Or was he the lord of the manor of Stepleton? From ancestry.com(TFPL, Sep 2004):Shropshire: Battlefield, Pitchford, Smethcote, Stapleton,Moreton Corbet, Albrighton (near Shrewsbury), Broughton - ParishRegisters, Lichfield Diocese Smethcote Marriage Register, 1754. Stapleton Parish Registers. Thos. Lewis, Curate. County: Shropshire Country: England 25 Jan 1759.Samuel Langley, Doctor of Divinity, was inductedinto the Rectory of Stepleton in Com Salon and Diocese of Lich:and Cov., being presented thereto by Henry Powys, Esqre, Lord ofthe Manor of Stepleton. __________________________________________________________And, from the same source,might this have been he?Nottinghamshire: - Register of Marriages, 1763-1813 Marriages. Marriages at St. Mary's, Nottingham 1566 to 1813. Vol.8. County: Nottinghamshire Country: England Henry Powys of the Parishof the Holy Cross near the town ofShrewsbury & Dorothy Smith, this p. lic. 04 Nov 1770 _________________________________________________________

These are the various documents he left behing summarising his<pre>

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1 AUTH Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe

1 PERI Powys-Lybbe genealogy

1 TEXT researches. They included:

1 TEXT (1) His master tree of all families married by our forebears.

1 TEXT (2) His formal pedigree of the Powyses, in the style of Burke.

1 TEXT (3) His two pages of trees of various descents from medieval

1 TEXT royalty, including the Trotters back to the Scottish Stewarts.

1 TEXT (4) His trees of the recent Trotter marriages.

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1 TEXT Remarkably most of this has proved to be confirmed by publicly

1 TEXT available documents and some of it is a remarkable set of

1 TEXT findings. One or two errors have appeared, mainly where he got

1 TEXT the wrong wife as the ancestor. Perhaps only 20% of this

1 TEXT remains to be checked, principally the families married into by

1 TEXT the Trotters in the 18th and 19th centuries.

1 TEXT

1 TEXT However his besetting and frustrating fault is his almost

1 TEXT invariable omission of sources and similarly of dates.

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1 TEXT I suspect he relied heavily on Burke's Extinct Peerage, judging

1 TEXT by the heavily thumbed copy in APL's possession in 1999. But

1 TEXT there is also evidence that went to various libraries and paid

1 TEXT handsomely for primary documentary evidence of some 16th and

1 TEXT 17th century families.

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1 TEXT Nevertheless most of my work has been to extend and verify his

1 TEXT enormous efforts. He really was a serious genealogist (like

1 TEXT Martin but who follows the stricter regime of the last quarter

1 TEXT of the 20th century) and I have considerable admiration for what

1 TEXT he found out.

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