Charles and Ann had 4 boys
and 1 girl, Charles Glifford, Mary Ann, James Daniel, John Lewis, Alfred William
plus mystery William born 3 years after Charles (2) died. John Lewis, my great grandfather will be discussed in a future post.
Charles(3) Glifford (b. 1847), the first son
and only child born in London. As an adult he had a bakery in Abergavenny, raised his family at #15 Victoria Street
and became a baker.
The 1871 census shows Charles (3) living in a small town called Usk (which is about 10 miles away from Abergavenny). He was lodging with and working for Ellen Jenkins who was a grocer and baker. Emma Pinner was a servant in a house in Usk on the same census. Charles(3) Glifford married Emma Pinner in 1874.
By the 1881 census Charles and Emma were living at #15 Victoria Street. He was listed as a baker and confectioner with two children - Charles(4) and Frederick. In the 1891 census they are still at #15 and he is listed as "baker on own account" (self employed). Four children are now with them - Charles (4) "bakers assistant", Frederick, William and Florence.
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| #15 & #18 Victoria Street have both been converted to homes |
John spoke very
highly and humourously about his brother Charley.
“My brother Charley has just come in from the
bake-house and tells me to give kind regards to you and says that he would
accommodate you with the best room in the house.”
“Charley is very stout and he got a heavy fall full
length into a hole. I told him it was
like a lump of dough falling into a bin.
Well we had to get down into a ravine, climb over a gate and wall, and then
over another spike-topped gate before we could get into Blaenanon. There were a few spikes out on the top
sufficient for me to get over, but not for my brother. I got over and there he was walking up and
down inside trying to find a place to get over.
I thought I should have split laughing and when he did attempt it was so
ludicrous that I was quite sore from laughing at the figure he cut. He laughed himself also.”
Recipes from Charley Powell
Thanks to a descendant of Charley's I do have a copy of his death certificate and know that he died
from diabetes in 1897. His death was reported by Emma Watkins, the 1895 Kelly's directory of Monmouthsire mentions a Samuel Watkins, a baker of 20 Victoria Street. Were Emma and Samuel husband and wife? Was Samuel learning the trade from Charley? or brought in to help as a result of Charley's illness?
Near his
mother Ann's grave is Charley's stone:
In loving memory of
Charles Glifford Powell
of this town
(Baker)
died Nov. 1st 1897
aged 50 years.
"Thy will be
done"
Charles death left Emma,
his wife, with the care of their 4 children, a bakery to run and a mother-in-law
who was described in the 1901 census as an “imbicile”(1). The family was now living at #18-20 Victoria Street and Emma was listed as a baker and shopkeeper - her sons Charles and William are both bakers; Fredrick and Florrie are there as well.
In 1905 Charles(4) John Powell married Lottie Agnes Hill. The 1911 census shows Charles(4) and Lottie are living at #18-20 Victoria St. He is a "baker at home" (self employed).
Daughter Mary Ann Powell was born in 1850, in
Haverfordwest. She married William
Davies Credginton
in 1868. He was a carpenter from the
estate of Ruperra Castle. Ruperra is about 26 miles from Abergavenny. Mary Ann died in 1870, possibly in childbirth
or shortly thereafter.
Name:
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Mary Ann Credgington
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Gender:
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Female
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Burial Date:
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3 Aug 1870
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Burial Place:
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Machen, Monmouth, England
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By the 1871
census, William was a widow with a very young daughter, Mary Ann. Fortunately young Mary Ann was with her
grandmother, Ann Powell, during the recording of the 1881 census. With an unusual name like Credlinton I thought
the search for Mary Ann and her husband would be simple. I was wrong – the variation of spelling has
been a challenge – Credlinton, Credgington, Credginton, Credjinton,
Crudgington.
I have not been able to
ascertain what eventually happened to Mary Ann, the daughter, but she married John William B. Burns in 1891.
John Burns WW1 pension records confirm that his wife was Mary Ann Credginton.
Mary Ann's father remarried another Ann and
raised a large family in the Newport area.
In 1884 John
Lewis visited Mary Ann’s daughter and widowed husband, again, this information came
from one of John Lewis Powell’s letters back to Sarah Oakley:
“I was down upon Monday to a place called Ruperra
Castle, seeing my brother-in-law about my niece, and after that went over to a
place called Tydee to see my father's sister.
It was a lovely day and the country was looking very beautiful. How much I did wish that you were with me that
you may enjoy the beautiful scenery of this country. Ruperra is about 26 miles from my home and it
was there my sister used to live and she married a carpenter off the estate.”
James Daniel Powell was born in Haverfordwest
in 1851. He eventually went to
Sheffield, England where he owned and operated a Plumbing and Gas-fitting
store. Both he and his wife passed away
in the 1920’s.
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| James Daniel in front of his store in Sheffield |
Alfred William Powell was born in 1856
in Haverfordwest. By the 1871 census Alfred’s
occupation was listed as tailors trimmer.
In that same census, Edward Lewis, tailor and his wife Mary, a
dressmaker, lived next door. Edward may
have been Ann’s brother and perhaps this is who Alfred was apprenticed to. In the 1881 census Alfred was still living at
home. I have not been able to find him
in later census records, nor did John Lewis mention Alfred in his letters. A family story related to me was that one of
John’s brothers was coming to Canada to see him, but was killed in a train
accident. Could this be what happened to
Alfred?
William Powell, was born in 1861, the
only child born in Abergavenny. He was 1
month old at the time of the 1861 census and his mother was a widow. Unless this was an error, Charles could not be
the father of this child. William was
not listed in any further census returns. There was a burial for William Powell of Byefield Lane aged 10 months on 11 Jan 1862 at St. Mary's Church. No gravestone was discovered and chances are Ann was too poor to afford one. I did send for young Williams death certificate which confirmed that his mother was Ann. This child remains a mystery.
Meaning infirmities of old age that make
an old person like a child, and was a legal term for physical and mental
incapacity in old age. (http://studymore.org.uk/mhhglo.htm#imbecile)
The Crudgingtons take their name from the small village
of Crudgington, in Shropshire, England
http://websfor.me.uk/crudgington/home/home.asp?A710
Ruperra Castle was built in 1626 by Sir Thomas Morgan,
who was knighted by King James 1st.
After being destroyed by fire in 1785 the castle was rebuilt and the
original gables replaced by battlements. In 1875 Captain Godfrey Charles
Morgan, of the Charge of the Light Brigade fame became Lord Tredegar and during
the 19th Century the eldest son of the Tredegar family lived at Ruperra which saw
its heyday as a great Victorian country estate with historic gardens and
parklands.
Some trees on Ancestry have attached the children from
the second Ann to the first Ann. John’s
letter records that his sister died after the birth of her first child.
