Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameWarwick Gurney Powys 
[36], [4, 1881 with his parents in St Geo Han Sq, London], [3, His birth, Q1 of 1872, St Geo Han Sq dist, vol 1a, p. 335]
[36], [4, 1881 with his parents in St Geo Han Sq, London], [3, His birth, Q1 of 1872, St Geo Han Sq dist, vol 1a, p. 335]Birth7 Jan 1872, Westminster, Mx
FatherCol Charles Powys (1813-1897)
MotherAgnes Anne Richards (ca1836-1906)
Notes for Warwick Gurney Powys
His birth index:
First name(s) Warwick Gurney
Last name Powys
Birth year 1872
Birth quarter 1
District St. George Hanover Square
County London
Country England
Volume 1A
Page 356
Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006
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He appeared in the 1881 and 1891 censuses.
In 1881 he was with his parents and in 1891 he was a agricultural student in the Colonial College, Hollesley, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. It was an “Institution for training and preparing men for life in the Colonies and abroad”.
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No death record on FreeBMD before 1910.
On May 13 1914 he came off the SS Oceanic at New York and was entered into the Ellis Island records. He claimed to be 42 and 4 months (correct). He gave as his England contact the Governor, or at least a residient at the Governor’s House, of Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight. He said he was a farmer. From the look of the other occupations of the people on this list, he was travelling third class. He was probably emigrating to the USA.
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2018, TFPL: Nothing further found of him at all on FindmyPast’s World records.
But I have seen a death date of 7 Jan 1941 in the USA on a website. No evidence, of course!
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From FindMyPast, in 1930 he was in Morn County, New mexico, unmarried, b. in 1873 and a Labourer on a ranch.
FamilySearch has produced the records and In the 1940 census he was living in Kansas city, Missouri and said they had been in Colfax, New Mexico in 1935. He was 65, she was 50 and born in Eire.
No marriage found on FamilySearch.
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First name(s) Warwick Gurney
Last name Powys
Birth year 1872
Birth quarter 1
District St. George Hanover Square
County London
Country England
Volume 1A
Page 356
Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006
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He appeared in the 1881 and 1891 censuses.
In 1881 he was with his parents and in 1891 he was a agricultural student in the Colonial College, Hollesley, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. It was an “Institution for training and preparing men for life in the Colonies and abroad”.
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No death record on FreeBMD before 1910.
On May 13 1914 he came off the SS Oceanic at New York and was entered into the Ellis Island records. He claimed to be 42 and 4 months (correct). He gave as his England contact the Governor, or at least a residient at the Governor’s House, of Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight. He said he was a farmer. From the look of the other occupations of the people on this list, he was travelling third class. He was probably emigrating to the USA.
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2018, TFPL: Nothing further found of him at all on FindmyPast’s World records.
But I have seen a death date of 7 Jan 1941 in the USA on a website. No evidence, of course!
________________
From FindMyPast, in 1930 he was in Morn County, New mexico, unmarried, b. in 1873 and a Labourer on a ranch.
FamilySearch has produced the records and In the 1940 census he was living in Kansas city, Missouri and said they had been in Colfax, New Mexico in 1935. He was 65, she was 50 and born in Eire.
No marriage found on FamilySearch.
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