TFPL, Sep 2004, from
Ancestry.com (another son?):
Shropshire: Shrewsbury - St. Mary Parish Registers, Lichfield Diocese
Burials.
Burials.
1805.
County: Shropshire
Country: England
08 Feb 1805 James Jelf Powys, Esq., 61; from Bath; Buried in Berwick chapel.
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This private Act of Parliament is probably to do with him:
1743 (17 Geo. 2) c. 21P
Edward and Katherine Powys' settled estate: vesting part in trustees to raise money to pay debts and securing an equivalent for the benefit of his wife and their issue and Thomas Powys
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In George Ormerod’s ‘The History of Cheshire’, vol III, p. 108, he quotes this mural monument in Sandbach church (all lines being in the centre of the plaque):
In memory of
Edward Powys,
of Wheelock, esq. who departed
this life September 29, 1768
aged 59
much lamented by his acquaintenance.
This momument is erected by his relict Catherine Powys,
and his son Thomas Jelf Powys, esq.
This mural provides the sole evidence to date for his birth year.
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