Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Birth25 Jul 1837, Bernard St, St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex
Baptism14 Jan 1838, St George Bloomsbury parish church, Middlesex
Death4 Jul 1923, 2 Gordon Rd, Christchurch, Hants
General1st dau.
FatherBransby William Powys (1807-ca1886)
MotherEllen Hoar (1812-1841)
Notes for Constance Ellen Powys
Her birth on the new GRO index with mother’s maiden names:

Name:          Mother's Maiden Surname:
POWYS, -       HOAR  
GRO Reference: 1837  S Quarter in ST GILES IN THE FIELDS  Volume 01  Page 40
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Her baptism as transcribed by me from an image of the RTegister:

Place:               Parish of St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex
Year:                1838
Baptism date:        Jan 17
Birth date:          July 25 1837
No:                  2469
Name:                Constance Ellen
Parents:             Bransby William and Ellen
Surname:             Powys
Abode:               Bernard St
Father’s job:        Solicitor
Celebrant:           T.A.Powys Offt: Minr.  (fairly certainly Rev Thomas Arthur (1801-1871)
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In 1851 she and her sister Gertrude were at school in St Peter’s Broadstairs, Isle of Thanet, Kent, both born in London, Mx.
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Her death is on 1837 OnLine for Jul to Sep 1923, ref Christchurch 2b 661; she is down as 85 at death.

And on the certificate she died at 2 Gordon Road, Christchurch, Bournemouth, her daughter Ethel Mary was in attendance at her death and lived there.  She was 85, the widow of William Cunliffe Powys a Captain in H M Army and died of a cerebral haemorrhage.
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She and her surviving children are in the Canadian 1891 census but with their surnames indexed as Rowys.

In 1901, thanks to “automated genealogy” for their transcriptions of the 1901 census, she, aged 63, and her daughter Eleanor, aged 32, were at Fredericton sub-district, Kings quarter, York district, New Brunswick province.  They said they immigrated into Canada in 1877.  Constance was ‘Retired’, Eleanor had no occupation.
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Notes for William Cunliffe & Constance Ellen (Family)
Their marriage index:

First name(s)     WILLIAM C
Last name         POWYS
Marriage quarter  4
Marriage year     1866
MarriageFinder    WILLIAM C POWYS married one of these people
                  Emma L Scheve, Constance E Powys
District          St. Giles
County            London
Country           England
Volume            1B
Page number       765
Record set        England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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The transcript of the image of the marriage register:

Year:             1866
Place:            The parish Church of St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex
No:               17
Date              October four
                        Him                       Her
Names:            William Cunliffe Powys    Constance Ellen Powys
Ages:             Full age                  Full age
Condition:        Bachelor                  Spinster
Profession        Captain 22 Regt           -
Resdience         38 Russell Square         38 Russell Square
Father            Henry Philip Powys        Bransby William Powys
Father’s job      Esquire                   Esquire

Marriage method:  Licence
Celebrant         Thomas Powys, Off Min
Witnesses         Bransby Wm Powys, Millicent Powys
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Last Modified 27 Jan 2021Created 14 May 2022 by Tim Powys-Lybbe
Re-created by Tim Powys-Lybbe on 14 May 20220