Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameJane Beckett 
[273, Dr Williams Non-Conformist birth on 14 Apr 1796 at Baker St, Enfield, Mx], [19, Baptism on 13 July 1796 at Baker St Meeting, Enfield, Mx], [179, Her burial on 6th Nov 1842 at Cawnpore, Bengal, India], [60, Lilford article, Vol VII, p.658], [105, Budd pedigree, vol 10, p. 167], [36], [35, Baptisms, FHL No 813803]
[273, Dr Williams Non-Conformist birth on 14 Apr 1796 at Baker St, Enfield, Mx], [19, Baptism on 13 July 1796 at Baker St Meeting, Enfield, Mx], [179, Her burial on 6th Nov 1842 at Cawnpore, Bengal, India], [60, Lilford article, Vol VII, p.658], [105, Budd pedigree, vol 10, p. 167], [36], [35, Baptisms, FHL No 813803]Birth14 Apr 1796, Baker Street, Enfield, Mx
Baptism13 Jul 1796, Baker Street Meeting, Enfield, Middlesex
Deathca 5 Nov 1842, Buried at Cawnpore, Bengal, India
Burial6 Nov 1842, Christ Church, Cawnpore, Bengal, India
General3rd dau.
FatherWilliam Beckett
MotherMary Ostlife
Spouses
Marriage14 Apr 1825, Meerut, India [179, Marriage on 14 Apr 1825 at Meerut, India]
ChildrenRobert Horace (1826-1913)
John (1828-1857)
Henry Lilford (1831-ca1848)
Caroline Mary (1836-1905)
Edward Atherton (ca1838-1857)
Vernon William (1840-1841)
Notes for Jane Beckett
TFPL, 2022: Start again and with the copy of a superb certificate of birth from the Nonconformist Dr Williams records, thanks to Ancestry, and here’s the transcript by me:
“C No 1336 D86
“ These are to Certify, That Jane Beckett
“Daughter of Wm Beckett
“and Mary his Wife, who was Daughter of
“John and Mary Ostlife, was Born in Baker Street
“in the Parish of Enfield
“in the County of Middlesex the fourteenth
“Day of April in the Year One Thousand Seven
“hundred and Ninety Six at whose Birth we were present.
“ Hannah Harrison
“ Rich: Harrison
“
“Registered at Dr. Williams’s Library, Redcross-Street, near Cripplegate, London.
“ July 1, 1798 JL Towers Register.
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Not 100% sure that she is the person on the LDS vital records but CP has her father as of Enfield and she and her siblings were all born in Enfield.
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She married in India in 1825 when she was 29. Might one suppose that this was an arranged marriage and that she went out to India for it? Her husband was 23 and had only recently gone out to India and had the low rank of Ensign (in England, officers below Captain were not allowed to marry, but I don’t know what the practice was in India). I doubt he would have been allowed to take several months off to get back to England for a marriage. She, on the other hand, may have been a little more anxious to get married before too long, so might have jumped at the chance. She could even have gone off there without a marriage in prospect. One could speculate for hours on this.
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It looks like she and Robert had another son from this India Office birth record:
Name: Henry Tilford POWYS
Event type: Birth
Date: 30 Aug
Year: 1831
Location: Lucknow Cantonments
Parents: Robert Vernon, Hon. Lt., 12th N. I.; Jane
Notes:
Event type: Baptism
Date: 22 Jan
Year: 1832
Location: Lucknow Cantonments
Parents: Robert Vernon, Hon. Lt., 12th N. I.; Jane
Notes:
Transcribed by: British Library
India Office Records Reference: N/1/32 f.77
Source name:
Source year:
Source edition:
Presidency: Bengal
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Plus a son Vernon William:
Name: Vernon William POWYS
Event type: Birth
Date: 19 Mar
Year: 1840
Location: Benares
Parents: R. V., Brev-Cpt., 12th N. I.; Jane
Notes:
Event type: Baptism
Date: 27 May
Year: 1841
Location: Benares
Parents: R. V., Brev-Cpt., 12th N. I.; Jane
Notes:
Transcribed by: British Library
India Office Records Reference: N/1/60 f.164
Source name:
Source year:
Source edition:
Presidency: Bengal
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Her death record on Family Search:
from India Deaths and Burials
Name: Jane Powys
Gender: Female
Burial Date: 06 Nov 1842
Burial Place: Cawnpore, Bengal, India
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Robert Vernon Powys
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B39313-1
System Origin: India-EASy
GS Film number: 498980
Note that this burial date is 4 days before the death date from Burke’s Peerage.
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And more directly from the India Office:
First name(s) Jane
Last name Powys
Burial date 06 Nov 1842
Place Cawnpore, Christ Church
Profession: Wife of the Honble Capt. Robert Vernon Powys
12th Native Infantry
Celebrant: Jos. Jas. Carshore, Chaplain of Cawnpore
Presidency Bengal
Archive Reference N-1-63
Page 532
Catalogue Description Parish register transcripts from the
Presidency of Bengal, : 1713-1948
Record set British India Office deaths & burials
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In 1911 she was boarding in Portsmouth, Hants with a pair of Norman sisters and their two brothers. She was there said to be a widow with children, one of whom was deceased.
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“C No 1336 D86
“ These are to Certify, That Jane Beckett
“Daughter of Wm Beckett
“and Mary his Wife, who was Daughter of
“John and Mary Ostlife, was Born in Baker Street
“in the Parish of Enfield
“in the County of Middlesex the fourteenth
“Day of April in the Year One Thousand Seven
“hundred and Ninety Six at whose Birth we were present.
“ Hannah Harrison
“ Rich: Harrison
“
“Registered at Dr. Williams’s Library, Redcross-Street, near Cripplegate, London.
“ July 1, 1798 JL Towers Register.
_______________________
Not 100% sure that she is the person on the LDS vital records but CP has her father as of Enfield and she and her siblings were all born in Enfield.
_______________________
She married in India in 1825 when she was 29. Might one suppose that this was an arranged marriage and that she went out to India for it? Her husband was 23 and had only recently gone out to India and had the low rank of Ensign (in England, officers below Captain were not allowed to marry, but I don’t know what the practice was in India). I doubt he would have been allowed to take several months off to get back to England for a marriage. She, on the other hand, may have been a little more anxious to get married before too long, so might have jumped at the chance. She could even have gone off there without a marriage in prospect. One could speculate for hours on this.
______________________
It looks like she and Robert had another son from this India Office birth record:
Name: Henry Tilford POWYS
Event type: Birth
Date: 30 Aug
Year: 1831
Location: Lucknow Cantonments
Parents: Robert Vernon, Hon. Lt., 12th N. I.; Jane
Notes:
Event type: Baptism
Date: 22 Jan
Year: 1832
Location: Lucknow Cantonments
Parents: Robert Vernon, Hon. Lt., 12th N. I.; Jane
Notes:
Transcribed by: British Library
India Office Records Reference: N/1/32 f.77
Source name:
Source year:
Source edition:
Presidency: Bengal
_____________________________________
Plus a son Vernon William:
Name: Vernon William POWYS
Event type: Birth
Date: 19 Mar
Year: 1840
Location: Benares
Parents: R. V., Brev-Cpt., 12th N. I.; Jane
Notes:
Event type: Baptism
Date: 27 May
Year: 1841
Location: Benares
Parents: R. V., Brev-Cpt., 12th N. I.; Jane
Notes:
Transcribed by: British Library
India Office Records Reference: N/1/60 f.164
Source name:
Source year:
Source edition:
Presidency: Bengal
___________________________
Her death record on Family Search:
from India Deaths and Burials
Name: Jane Powys
Gender: Female
Burial Date: 06 Nov 1842
Burial Place: Cawnpore, Bengal, India
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Robert Vernon Powys
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B39313-1
System Origin: India-EASy
GS Film number: 498980
Note that this burial date is 4 days before the death date from Burke’s Peerage.
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And more directly from the India Office:
First name(s) Jane
Last name Powys
Burial date 06 Nov 1842
Place Cawnpore, Christ Church
Profession: Wife of the Honble Capt. Robert Vernon Powys
12th Native Infantry
Celebrant: Jos. Jas. Carshore, Chaplain of Cawnpore
Presidency Bengal
Archive Reference N-1-63
Page 532
Catalogue Description Parish register transcripts from the
Presidency of Bengal, : 1713-1948
Record set British India Office deaths & burials
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In 1911 she was boarding in Portsmouth, Hants with a pair of Norman sisters and their two brothers. She was there said to be a widow with children, one of whom was deceased.
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Notes for Robert Vernon & Jane (Family)
This looks like their marriage record in the India Office:
Name: Jane BECKETT
Event type: Marriage
Start date: 14 Apr
Start year: 1825
Location: Meerut
Spouse: The Hon Robert Vernon POWYS, Ens., 12th N.I.
Transcribed by: British Library
India Office Records Reference: N/1/13 f.599
Presidency: Bengal
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Thanks to FoindMypast we now have the image of the Marriage, Register, transcript by me:
> Meerut, Bengal > Parish Registers, Presidency of Bengal 1713-1948
“ Marriages 1825.
“. . . .
“No: 13
“Detail: Honble. Robt. Vernon Powys Ensn. 12 N.I. & Jane Beckett Spr.
“When married: Apl. 14 [ 1825 ]
Endorsement: “The above is a true Extract from the Meerut Register
Signature: “Henry Fisher, Chaplain
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Name: Jane BECKETT
Event type: Marriage
Start date: 14 Apr
Start year: 1825
Location: Meerut
Spouse: The Hon Robert Vernon POWYS, Ens., 12th N.I.
Transcribed by: British Library
India Office Records Reference: N/1/13 f.599
Presidency: Bengal
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Thanks to FoindMypast we now have the image of the Marriage, Register, transcript by me:
> Meerut, Bengal > Parish Registers, Presidency of Bengal 1713-1948
“ Marriages 1825.
“. . . .
“No: 13
“Detail: Honble. Robt. Vernon Powys Ensn. 12 N.I. & Jane Beckett Spr.
“When married: Apl. 14 [ 1825 ]
Endorsement: “The above is a true Extract from the Meerut Register
Signature: “Henry Fisher, Chaplain
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