Powys-Lybbe Ancestry

And how the Heiresses made the Genealogy easier

Updates from 2017 to 2023:

• Launched the chart database of Sir Thomas Powys' descendants. See this. (75% done)
• Replaced the 'Searchable Genealogy'. See this.
• Added nearly 2,500 people since 2017.
• Continued the Relatives Project See this.
• Broke off Relatives to start a study of the Descendants of Sir Thomas Powys. See this.
• Found that our ancestor George Welbank was an armiger,
  enhancing our inheritance of Trotter heraldry. See this.
• Developed my methodology to go for images of original documents
  over the last three hundred odd years. See this.
• Added the Genealogy of the Powys Senior Branch by Oswald Barron of 1906. See this.

• Genealogy - Now around 31,714 ancestors and relations, updated 10th May 2022
• Heraldry - The coats of arms we have acquired by marriage, updated and extended in most years
• The Powys DNA investigation
• Sir Thomas Powys' descendants in a series of charts, launched 25th Jan 2023
• Ectoplasm is here, see for yourself, new 20th April 2013
• Who was Maria Churchill? - A portait but no history, updated 23th January 2012
• Free genealogy and how to get it, updated 16th February 2014
• Heiresses themselves - a little about them and their history
• Original documents - from the 17th to 19th centuries
• The Roydons of Suffolk, Essex and Kent - the family tree of E B Royden's superb "Three Roydon Families"
• The Berkeleys - according to John Smyth in 1628, 2012 of them
• Barrington genealogy - documents and history of the Barringtons of Essex
• Bookplates - My quest for one and some family ones too
• A crass Visitation error - Geoffrey Poole was his own grandfather
• Murder? - The judicial murder of Dame Alice Lisle, my 10 times great-aunt
• Bigamy - The lady who lived like a Lord!
• Testamenta Vetusta - A little on the book, and CDROM, of 800 mediæval wills
• South Farm - In an AONB, an area of "outstanding natural beauty", new in June 2009.
• Links to a few other sites
• Family pictures - some old ones!
• Stolen pictures - have you seen any of them? New in July 2008.
• Waterhouses - Did some of this family change their name to Hallifax?
• Why do the Jane Austen afficionados get it wrong? - a persistent set of naming errors, updated May 2011
• Contact me, Tim Powys-Lybbe

This is a FAST site, by the way.  No unnecessary or complicated code.  But these days, with the wide use of fast broadband, I've decided to add in a variaty of large pictures and family trees. I've included the sizes of the large files so that you are warned before you click - be careful if you're on a slow line.

Site started by Tim Powys-Lybbe on 17th February 1999