Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameChristine Cecilia Haywood 
[3, Her birth, Q4 of 1854, Kings Norton district, vol 6c, p. 366], [5, Her birth certificate, no 489 of 1854 for Edgbaston, Warks], [4, 1861, Wilnecote, Tamworth, ref: RG9/1970/~F61], [5, Marriage cert], [5, Death cert no 647, reg on 22 Jan 1880 at Boulogne consulate], [4, 1871 Ref: RG10/1015/F?]
[3, Her birth, Q4 of 1854, Kings Norton district, vol 6c, p. 366], [5, Her birth certificate, no 489 of 1854 for Edgbaston, Warks], [4, 1861, Wilnecote, Tamworth, ref: RG9/1970/~F61], [5, Marriage cert], [5, Death cert no 647, reg on 22 Jan 1880 at Boulogne consulate], [4, 1871 Ref: RG10/1015/F?]Birth16 May 1854, 9 Carpenter Road, Edgbaston, Warks.
Death29 Dec 1879, 71 Rue Tour Notre Dame, Boulogne_sur_Mer, France
General4th dau. dsp. In 1861 census with her parents at Dosthill House.
FatherJames Haywood (ca1806-1866)
MotherCecilia Lord (ca1812-ca1854)
Spouses
1William Reginald Lybbe Powys-Lybbe (born POWYS) 
[6], [5, His birth cert, no 500 of Christchurch, Hants of 1856], [5, Death: Wallingford, Berks and Oxon, 1888, No 140], [3, His birth, Q4 of 1856, Christchurch dist, vol 2b, p. 509], [3, His death aged 31, Q2 of 1888, Wallingford dist, vol 2c, p. 199], [7, His school record]
[6], [5, His birth cert, no 500 of Christchurch, Hants of 1856], [5, Death: Wallingford, Berks and Oxon, 1888, No 140], [3, His birth, Q4 of 1856, Christchurch dist, vol 2b, p. 509], [3, His death aged 31, Q2 of 1888, Wallingford dist, vol 2c, p. 199], [7, His school record]FatherPhilip Lybbe Powys Lybbe (born POWYS) (1818-1897)
MotherAnn Phillis Greenwood (1825-1912)
Marriage21 Jul 1875, The Register Office, Hanover Square [3, Their marr., Q3 of 1875, St Geo Han Sq, vol 1a, p. 771]
No Children
Notes for Christine Cecilia Haywood
Note in RCLP-L's hand:
"1st wife:
"Christine Cecilia dau of James Heywood of Dost Hill House, co. Staffs married 21 July 1875 at the Register Office, Hanover Sq. Died 29 Dec 1879 at Boulogne-sur-Mer. S.P."
In the 1881 census, I could find a mining village called Dost Hill but no mention of Dost Hill House. It seems her father died before 1881 so an earlier census needs studying to find any clues. My current suspicion is that she was a family servant; Wm Reg was only 19 when he married her...
On their 1875 marriage certificate both put their fathers down as deceased. In her case this was probably true, in his case this was false but a convenient dodge to avoid having to get his father's approval as he was then under age.
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In 1861 she was living with her father and stepmother.
In 1871 she was in Folkestone with her stepmother and two sisters:
Surname Forename Age Relation Occupation Birth Place
Haywood Juliana 50 Head Gentlewoman London, Middlesex
Haywood Grace E 26 Daughter Gentlewoman Birmingham, Warwickshire
Haywood Mary H 21 Daughter Gentlewoman Birmingham, Warwickshire
Haywood Cecila C 16 Daughter Gentlewoman Birmingham, Warwickshire
Partridge Elizabeth 39 Servant Parlour Maid Birmingham, Warwickshire
Downes Hannah B 27 Servant Cook Charing, Kent
Bartwich Clementina 25 Servant Ladies Maid Dresden, Germany
Feoer Dorcas 19 Servant Housemaid Five Oaks, Kent
Ref: RG10/1015/F?
Address: 8 Longford Ter
Parish: Folkestone
Registration District: Elham
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TFPL, March 2003: I have seen her entry in the record books of the College of Arms.
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TFPL, July 2003: Obtained her death certificate, no 647 of the Vice-consulate at Boulogne-sur-mer, France, registered on January 22nd 1880.
Date of death: 29 Dec 1879 at 1.45am.
Name: Christine Cecilia POWYS
Age: 25
Residence at death: 71 Rue Tour Notre dame, Boulogne
Informant: H K Jarrett, Undertaker, 40 Rue du Bras d'Or, Boulogne
Registrar: William Stigand, British Consul, Boulogne.
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May 2005, TFPL: Obtained both her Admon for intestacy and found her in the 1861 census, and she was indeed the daughter of James Haywood, solicitor, and indeed of Dosthill House, now known to be in Wilnecote, Tamworth (Staffs). She was aged 6, thus born in 1854-5, born in Edgbaston, Warks. Her parents were James aged 55 born in Sheffield, Yorks and Juliamy (?) aged 40 and born in Chelsea, Middx. (It looks like Juliamy was a second wife and not in fact her mother.)
The weird thing in all this is that I can find nothing more about her or any other member of her family in the 1871 census. Nor could I find her father's will, though I searched for 15 years after this in Holburn.
Interestingly GENUKI has this on the village: "Wilnecote, a large village, two miles SSE of Tamworth, has a small railway station, and its township comprises about 1000 acres, and 824 souls, including Dosthill House, now unoccupied, and many scattered dwellings. Wilnecote Hall is the pleasant seat of Major Bamford. Sir Robert Peel, Bart, is lord of the manor, and owner of a great part of the soil. "
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June 2007, TFPL: I have found her birth on FreeBMD which clearly gives her name as Christine so I have changed it from Christina. I have also ordered a birth cert, to give her mother’s name.
May 2016, TFPL: Just noticed that her death announcement in The Standard gives her hame as “Christine Cecilia, wife of W. Reginald Lybbe Powys”. So the name change to Christine is doubly kosher.
June 12th of ditto: the birth cert has arrived. The first fact is that her mother is shown as deceased so must have died in or soon after childbirth. Secondly this gives her mother’s maiden name, Cecilia Lord. Thirdly her birth was not registered until 19 Oct 1854, resulting in the misleading birth date presumed from FreeBMD; this late registration must have been caused by her mother’s obviously tragic early death.
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TFPL, Oct 2011: The index of Overseas BMD has this for her death:
Consular Death POWYS CHRISTINE CECILIA Boulogne 1876-1880 cd1876-80.pdf p.81 Vol:6 Page:653
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"1st wife:
"Christine Cecilia dau of James Heywood of Dost Hill House, co. Staffs married 21 July 1875 at the Register Office, Hanover Sq. Died 29 Dec 1879 at Boulogne-sur-Mer. S.P."
In the 1881 census, I could find a mining village called Dost Hill but no mention of Dost Hill House. It seems her father died before 1881 so an earlier census needs studying to find any clues. My current suspicion is that she was a family servant; Wm Reg was only 19 when he married her...
On their 1875 marriage certificate both put their fathers down as deceased. In her case this was probably true, in his case this was false but a convenient dodge to avoid having to get his father's approval as he was then under age.
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In 1861 she was living with her father and stepmother.
In 1871 she was in Folkestone with her stepmother and two sisters:
Surname Forename Age Relation Occupation Birth Place
Haywood Juliana 50 Head Gentlewoman London, Middlesex
Haywood Grace E 26 Daughter Gentlewoman Birmingham, Warwickshire
Haywood Mary H 21 Daughter Gentlewoman Birmingham, Warwickshire
Haywood Cecila C 16 Daughter Gentlewoman Birmingham, Warwickshire
Partridge Elizabeth 39 Servant Parlour Maid Birmingham, Warwickshire
Downes Hannah B 27 Servant Cook Charing, Kent
Bartwich Clementina 25 Servant Ladies Maid Dresden, Germany
Feoer Dorcas 19 Servant Housemaid Five Oaks, Kent
Ref: RG10/1015/F?
Address: 8 Longford Ter
Parish: Folkestone
Registration District: Elham
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TFPL, March 2003: I have seen her entry in the record books of the College of Arms.
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TFPL, July 2003: Obtained her death certificate, no 647 of the Vice-consulate at Boulogne-sur-mer, France, registered on January 22nd 1880.
Date of death: 29 Dec 1879 at 1.45am.
Name: Christine Cecilia POWYS
Age: 25
Residence at death: 71 Rue Tour Notre dame, Boulogne
Informant: H K Jarrett, Undertaker, 40 Rue du Bras d'Or, Boulogne
Registrar: William Stigand, British Consul, Boulogne.
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May 2005, TFPL: Obtained both her Admon for intestacy and found her in the 1861 census, and she was indeed the daughter of James Haywood, solicitor, and indeed of Dosthill House, now known to be in Wilnecote, Tamworth (Staffs). She was aged 6, thus born in 1854-5, born in Edgbaston, Warks. Her parents were James aged 55 born in Sheffield, Yorks and Juliamy (?) aged 40 and born in Chelsea, Middx. (It looks like Juliamy was a second wife and not in fact her mother.)
The weird thing in all this is that I can find nothing more about her or any other member of her family in the 1871 census. Nor could I find her father's will, though I searched for 15 years after this in Holburn.
Interestingly GENUKI has this on the village: "Wilnecote, a large village, two miles SSE of Tamworth, has a small railway station, and its township comprises about 1000 acres, and 824 souls, including Dosthill House, now unoccupied, and many scattered dwellings. Wilnecote Hall is the pleasant seat of Major Bamford. Sir Robert Peel, Bart, is lord of the manor, and owner of a great part of the soil. "
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June 2007, TFPL: I have found her birth on FreeBMD which clearly gives her name as Christine so I have changed it from Christina. I have also ordered a birth cert, to give her mother’s name.
May 2016, TFPL: Just noticed that her death announcement in The Standard gives her hame as “Christine Cecilia, wife of W. Reginald Lybbe Powys”. So the name change to Christine is doubly kosher.
June 12th of ditto: the birth cert has arrived. The first fact is that her mother is shown as deceased so must have died in or soon after childbirth. Secondly this gives her mother’s maiden name, Cecilia Lord. Thirdly her birth was not registered until 19 Oct 1854, resulting in the misleading birth date presumed from FreeBMD; this late registration must have been caused by her mother’s obviously tragic early death.
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TFPL, Oct 2011: The index of Overseas BMD has this for her death:
Consular Death POWYS CHRISTINE CECILIA Boulogne 1876-1880 cd1876-80.pdf p.81 Vol:6 Page:653
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Will notes for Christine Cecilia Haywood
She died intestate and the following is to be found in the Wills Index in Holburn House:
"21 January 1880. Administration of the Personal Estate of Christine Cecilia Lybbe Powys (Wife of William Reginald Lybbe Powys, Esquire) late of the Croft, Wallingford in the County of Berks and of 71 Rue Tour Notre Dame, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France who died 29 December 1879 at 71 Rue Tour Notre Dame was granted at the Principal Registry to the said William Reginald Lybbe Powys of the Croft at present residing at 7 Lansdown Crescent in the City of Bath.
"Personal estate under £200."
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"21 January 1880. Administration of the Personal Estate of Christine Cecilia Lybbe Powys (Wife of William Reginald Lybbe Powys, Esquire) late of the Croft, Wallingford in the County of Berks and of 71 Rue Tour Notre Dame, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France who died 29 December 1879 at 71 Rue Tour Notre Dame was granted at the Principal Registry to the said William Reginald Lybbe Powys of the Croft at present residing at 7 Lansdown Crescent in the City of Bath.
"Personal estate under £200."
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Notes for William Reginald Lybbe & Christine Cecilia (Family)
From a copy of the marriage register, made on 24th June 1925:
No: 5 of the District of St George, Hanover Square, London, 1975
At: Registry Office, S.G.H.S.
On: 21st July 1875
Groom: William Reginald Lybbe Powys, aged 19, Bachelor, Gentleman, of Grosvenor Hotel, Buckingham Palace Road
Bride: Christine Cecilia Haywood, aged 21 years, spinster of 8 Longford Terrace, Folkestone
Father of groom: Philip Powys (deceased)
Father of bride: James Haywood (deceased)
Witnesses: Edwd. Harvey, J. Hooper Mercer
Registrar: Henry Tull
Superintendent registrar: Thomas Worlock
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On the 23rd July 1875, this notice was placed in The Standard:
“LYBBE-HAYWOOD 21st, Wm. Reginald Lybbe Powys, only son of P. L. P. Lybbe Esq., of Hardwick House, Oxon, &c., to Christine Cecilia, youngest daughter of the late Jas Haywood, Esq., of Dosthill House, Staffordshire”
I wonder who inserted this notice? Philip Lybbe himself, or his lawyer? I don’t think it was done by Wm Reg.
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No: 5 of the District of St George, Hanover Square, London, 1975
At: Registry Office, S.G.H.S.
On: 21st July 1875
Groom: William Reginald Lybbe Powys, aged 19, Bachelor, Gentleman, of Grosvenor Hotel, Buckingham Palace Road
Bride: Christine Cecilia Haywood, aged 21 years, spinster of 8 Longford Terrace, Folkestone
Father of groom: Philip Powys (deceased)
Father of bride: James Haywood (deceased)
Witnesses: Edwd. Harvey, J. Hooper Mercer
Registrar: Henry Tull
Superintendent registrar: Thomas Worlock
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On the 23rd July 1875, this notice was placed in The Standard:
“LYBBE-HAYWOOD 21st, Wm. Reginald Lybbe Powys, only son of P. L. P. Lybbe Esq., of Hardwick House, Oxon, &c., to Christine Cecilia, youngest daughter of the late Jas Haywood, Esq., of Dosthill House, Staffordshire”
I wonder who inserted this notice? Philip Lybbe himself, or his lawyer? I don’t think it was done by Wm Reg.
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