Mervyn Owen Wayne POWYS

niveau d'instruction: 1881: Harrow aged 15. Cantab: MA. <pre>

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1 SOUR Book - Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe - 1 PERI Powys-Lybbe genealogy -

These are the various documents he left behing summarising his -

researches. They included: -

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

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

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

royalty, including the Trotters back to the Scottish Stewarts. -

(4) His trees of the recent Trotter marriages. -

Remarkably most of this has proved to be confirmed by publicly -

available documents and some of it is a remarkable set of -

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

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

remains to be checked, principally the families married into by -

the Trotters in the 18th and 19th centuries. -

However his besetting and frustrating fault is his almost -

invariable omission of sources and similarly of dates. -

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

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

there is also evidence that went to various libraries and paid -

handsomely for primary documentary evidence of some 16th and -

17th century families. -

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

enormous efforts. He really was a serious genealogist (like -

Martin but who follows the stricter regime of the last quarter -

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

he found out.

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