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NameHenry Powys 
[36], [23, Sneyd of Loxley park, Vol I, p. 169]
[36], [23, Sneyd of Loxley park, Vol I, p. 169]Death1774
General2nd s. Of Underdale and (?) The Abbey, Shrewsbury.
FatherThomas Powys (1679-1744)
MotherBridget Baldwyn (ca1675-1742)
Spouses
Notes for Henry Powys
From Burke (and thus of limited reliability): m. (1) Elizabeth Langley, (2) Susannah Sneyd, (3) Dorothy Lister and only he and the first wife had issue, a daughter, as yet unnamed.
Was he the Henry Powys at St John's, Oxford, matric 1735?
Or was he the lord of the manor of Stepleton? From ancestry.com (TFPL, Sep 2004):
Shropshire: Battlefield, Pitchford, Smethcote, Stapleton, Moreton Corbet, Albrighton (near Shrewsbury), Broughton - Parish Registers, Lichfield Diocese
Smethcote Marriage Register, 1754.
Stapleton Parish Registers.
Thos. Lewis, Curate.
County: Shropshire
Country: England
25 Jan 1759. Samuel Langley, Doctor of Divinity, was inducted into the Rectory of Stepleton in Com Salon and Diocese of Lich: and Cov., being presented thereto by Henry Powys, Esqre, Lord of the Manor of Stepleton.
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And, from the same source, might this have been he?
Nottinghamshire: - Register of Marriages, 1763-1813
Marriages.
Marriages at St. Mary's, Nottingham 1566 to 1813.
Vol. 8.
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Henry Powys of the Parish of the Holy Cross near the town of Shrewsbury & Dorothy Smith, this p. lic. 04 Nov 1770
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However the Warwick Record office has this document in its collection titled “Powys of Berwick, Shropshire”:
“Elizabeth Powys (nee Langley), niece of Sir Thomas Cotton of Eardley, Staffs. and wife of Henry Powys: draft jointure concerning Underhill Hall in Smethcott, Salop; Moat Farm in Stepleton, Salop, a messuage and lands in Coleham, Shrewsbury and messuages in Merivall in Shrewsbury.”
This needs to be obtained.
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Was he the Henry Powys at St John's, Oxford, matric 1735?
Or was he the lord of the manor of Stepleton? From ancestry.com (TFPL, Sep 2004):
Shropshire: Battlefield, Pitchford, Smethcote, Stapleton, Moreton Corbet, Albrighton (near Shrewsbury), Broughton - Parish Registers, Lichfield Diocese
Smethcote Marriage Register, 1754.
Stapleton Parish Registers.
Thos. Lewis, Curate.
County: Shropshire
Country: England
25 Jan 1759. Samuel Langley, Doctor of Divinity, was inducted into the Rectory of Stepleton in Com Salon and Diocese of Lich: and Cov., being presented thereto by Henry Powys, Esqre, Lord of the Manor of Stepleton.
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And, from the same source, might this have been he?
Nottinghamshire: - Register of Marriages, 1763-1813
Marriages.
Marriages at St. Mary's, Nottingham 1566 to 1813.
Vol. 8.
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Henry Powys of the Parish of the Holy Cross near the town of Shrewsbury & Dorothy Smith, this p. lic. 04 Nov 1770
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However the Warwick Record office has this document in its collection titled “Powys of Berwick, Shropshire”:
“Elizabeth Powys (nee Langley), niece of Sir Thomas Cotton of Eardley, Staffs. and wife of Henry Powys: draft jointure concerning Underhill Hall in Smethcott, Salop; Moat Farm in Stepleton, Salop, a messuage and lands in Coleham, Shrewsbury and messuages in Merivall in Shrewsbury.”
This needs to be obtained.
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Will notes for Henry Powys
Will of Henry Powys of Abby near Shrewsbury , Shropshire 06 October 1774 PROB 11/1002