Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NamePeter Powys 
[56, Salop 1663, C of A Ms; Ref C35/84v.85], [58, Lilfords, p. 257]
[56, Salop 1663, C of A Ms; Ref C35/84v.85], [58, Lilfords, p. 257]Death1659
GeneralOf Hollings, Salop.
FatherThomas Powys (of Snitton) (1558-1639)
MotherElizabeth Smyth (-1645)
Spouses
Notes for Peter Powys
Martin P-L writes:
married 1. Elizabeth Cupper, by whom he had two children, William and Elizabeth;
2. Jane Morris, from Rochford, by whom he had three sons, Richard, Thomas and Peter.
In 1647 he is referred to as being of Ewton, gent in his sister Anne's marriage settlement (H.R.O. ref. B16/13).
He farmed in Hope Bagot and in Cainham, on land which Henley promised to give him on his marriage to Jane, but which, after Peter's death, he gave to Peter's son Richard for his lifetime. This Richard in fact did not need it, acquiring a large estate in Limehouse, London, as well as inheriting his Morris grandfather's manor house, Rochford Hall. He married one Margaret, by whom he had in 1684 a son, James.
Peter died in 1659. His will is in the P.R.O., ref. 1659 fo. 220 Pell.
In 1677 Peter's widow Jane (or Johanna) and her eldest son, Richard, sued a William Powis, linen draper of St Clement Danes in Co. Middx., over board and lodging he had or had not given to her two youngest sons, Peter and Thomas. Some money was alleged to have been deposited with Thomas Rudge, a kinsman to both of them. Since Rudge was the husband of Winifred, sister of Peter Powys dec'd, it looks as if the draper William was Peter's son by his first marriage. Rudge would have been uncle by marriage to all of them.
Jane and Richard were also involved, as defendants, in a series of suits brought by her Morris relatives. Indeed, in 1703, under a Writ of Execution, she and Richard were ordered to meet the Morrises in the church porch at Clun, and there hand over to them the money they owed. They failed to comply, and she evaded the next writ by hiding in her house. They were then tried for contempt of court.
Jane was a tough old boot in more ways than one. She outlived her husband by 63 years, by which time only one of her sons was still alive.
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Aug 2017, TFPL: There are four baptisms of children of Peter in the Caynham register from 1651 to 1655. To be followed up. Birth dates included!
The last of these four is for Elizabeth. As yet I am unsure if this was, or was not, a second Elizabeth daughter for peter, the first being with his first wife.
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Cainham is a mere two miles from Ludlow and 3 miles from Bitterley, so well within walking distance of all local rellies.
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Aug 2017, TFPL: Just found this odd marriage for a Peter Powys in Onibury where his sister’s husband John Slade came from:
First name(s) Peter
Last name Powys
Marriage year 1645
Marriage date 01 Feb 1645
Marriage place Onibury
Spouse's first name(s) -
Spouse's last name Betteridge
County Shropshire
Country England
Record set England Marriages 1538-1973
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married 1. Elizabeth Cupper, by whom he had two children, William and Elizabeth;
2. Jane Morris, from Rochford, by whom he had three sons, Richard, Thomas and Peter.
In 1647 he is referred to as being of Ewton, gent in his sister Anne's marriage settlement (H.R.O. ref. B16/13).
He farmed in Hope Bagot and in Cainham, on land which Henley promised to give him on his marriage to Jane, but which, after Peter's death, he gave to Peter's son Richard for his lifetime. This Richard in fact did not need it, acquiring a large estate in Limehouse, London, as well as inheriting his Morris grandfather's manor house, Rochford Hall. He married one Margaret, by whom he had in 1684 a son, James.
Peter died in 1659. His will is in the P.R.O., ref. 1659 fo. 220 Pell.
In 1677 Peter's widow Jane (or Johanna) and her eldest son, Richard, sued a William Powis, linen draper of St Clement Danes in Co. Middx., over board and lodging he had or had not given to her two youngest sons, Peter and Thomas. Some money was alleged to have been deposited with Thomas Rudge, a kinsman to both of them. Since Rudge was the husband of Winifred, sister of Peter Powys dec'd, it looks as if the draper William was Peter's son by his first marriage. Rudge would have been uncle by marriage to all of them.
Jane and Richard were also involved, as defendants, in a series of suits brought by her Morris relatives. Indeed, in 1703, under a Writ of Execution, she and Richard were ordered to meet the Morrises in the church porch at Clun, and there hand over to them the money they owed. They failed to comply, and she evaded the next writ by hiding in her house. They were then tried for contempt of court.
Jane was a tough old boot in more ways than one. She outlived her husband by 63 years, by which time only one of her sons was still alive.
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Aug 2017, TFPL: There are four baptisms of children of Peter in the Caynham register from 1651 to 1655. To be followed up. Birth dates included!
The last of these four is for Elizabeth. As yet I am unsure if this was, or was not, a second Elizabeth daughter for peter, the first being with his first wife.
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Cainham is a mere two miles from Ludlow and 3 miles from Bitterley, so well within walking distance of all local rellies.
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Aug 2017, TFPL: Just found this odd marriage for a Peter Powys in Onibury where his sister’s husband John Slade came from:
First name(s) Peter
Last name Powys
Marriage year 1645
Marriage date 01 Feb 1645
Marriage place Onibury
Spouse's first name(s) -
Spouse's last name Betteridge
County Shropshire
Country England
Record set England Marriages 1538-1973
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