Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameAmyand Mary Atherton Pratt 
[206, Birth on 7 Oct 1900 at Fisher Street, Kinsale, Co Cork, Ireland], [4, 1939 ref: RG101/6872D/006/41], [411, 1911 ref: at 9, Fisher Street, Kinsale, Cork]
[206, Birth on 7 Oct 1900 at Fisher Street, Kinsale, Co Cork, Ireland], [4, 1939 ref: RG101/6872D/006/41], [411, 1911 ref: at 9, Fisher Street, Kinsale, Cork]Birth7 Oct 1900, Fisher Street, Kinsale, Co Cork, Ireland
Death8 Aug 1970, New Wy Forder La Bishopsteignton Devon
GeneralHer 6th dau., his 1st. She had four children.
FatherRichard Charles Pratt (1869-1932)
MotherCharlotte Amyand Powys Adams MBE (ca1868-1940)
Spouses
Marriage27 Apr 1923, Edzell church, Angus, Scotland
ChildrenAmyand Mary (1924-2015)
Margaret Evelyn (1925-ca1978)
Betty Cecilia (1926-)
Herbert Richard (ca1928-2013)
Notes for Amyand Mary Atherton Pratt
Her birth register record from Irish Genealogy, transcript made by me:
“Superintendent Registrar’s District: Kinsale
“Registrar’s District: Kinsale
“BIRTHS Registered in the District of Kinsale in the Union of Kinsale in the County of Cork
“. . . .
No: “373
Birth date: “1900 Seventh October
Birth place: “Fisher Street
Forenames: “Amyand Mary Atherton
Sex: “Female
Father: “Fisher Street
Mother: “Amyand Powis [ sic ] Pratt, formerly Heard, formerly Adams
Father job: “Gentleman
Informant: “Richard C Pratt, Father, Fisher Street
Date Registered: “November Twenty Third 1900
Registrar: “George Vickery
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Her death index in 1970, with the same birth date as recorded in Kinsale ireland in 1900:
First name(s) Edward Mary A [ sic ]
Last name Bevan
Gender Unknown
Birth day 7
Birth month 10
Birth year 1900
Death quarter 3
Death year 1970
District Newton Abbot
County Devon
Volume 7A
Page 1213
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
The printed death index clearly shows her first name was Amyand. Obviously the transcriber was intoxicated as they called her Edward and then could not work out her sex. I have told FindMyPast they have it rather wrong.
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There is a statement on an Ancestry Family Tree that she married a Fairbairn in Q1 of 1946. This has to be wrong for these reasons:
1. On 15th march 1952 she and her husband Herbert Grant Bevan departed England on the “Blomfontein” of the `Holland Africa Line for Rhodesia. He was 53 and retired, she was 51 and a housewife, both of Vorder, Bishopsteignton, S.Devon.
2. At death she was clearly still called Amyand M A Bevan.
3. In 1924 she had given birth to one Amyand mary Bevan and it was this daughter of hers that married the Fairbairn.
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An ancestry family tree reports she had he had three daughters, but the only plausible records are for three daughters _and_ one son:
Mother's
Surname Forename Maiden Name Gender Year Ref RD Name
BEVAN AMYAND MARY - F 1924 265/ 3 Marykirk
BEVAN MARGARET EVELYN F 1925 265/ 16 Marykirk
Name: Mother's Maiden Surname:
BEVAN, BETTY CECILIA PRATT
GRO Reference: 1926 D Quarter in NEWTON ABBOT Volume 05B Page 122
BEVAN, HERBERT RICHARD PRATT
GRO Reference: 1928 D Quarter in NEWTON ABBOT Volume 05B Page 121
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In 1939 two of her children are revealed and it is possible that the two redacted children - because they are thought to be still living - are hers as well. The birth date given for her is the same as for her birth and death registrations. They were at Verder Forder Lane, Bishopsteignton, Newton Abbot R.D., Devon:
First Last Marital Schedule
name(s) name(s) Birth date Sex Occupation status Main Sub
Herbert J Bevan 21 Jun 1898 M Tomato Cucumber Grower (Retired) M 78 1
Amyand M A Bevan 07 Oct 1900 F Unpaid Domestic Duties M 78 2
The record for this person is officially closed.
Margaret E Bevan 13 Jul 1925 F At School S 78 4
Betty C Bevan 22 Oct 1926 F At School S 78 5
The record for this person is officially closed.
Frances R Williams 21 Aug 1917 F Domestic Servant S 78 7
(Sgartland)
1939 ref: RG101/6872D/006/41
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“Superintendent Registrar’s District: Kinsale
“Registrar’s District: Kinsale
“BIRTHS Registered in the District of Kinsale in the Union of Kinsale in the County of Cork
“. . . .
No: “373
Birth date: “1900 Seventh October
Birth place: “Fisher Street
Forenames: “Amyand Mary Atherton
Sex: “Female
Father: “Fisher Street
Mother: “Amyand Powis [ sic ] Pratt, formerly Heard, formerly Adams
Father job: “Gentleman
Informant: “Richard C Pratt, Father, Fisher Street
Date Registered: “November Twenty Third 1900
Registrar: “George Vickery
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Her death index in 1970, with the same birth date as recorded in Kinsale ireland in 1900:
First name(s) Edward Mary A [ sic ]
Last name Bevan
Gender Unknown
Birth day 7
Birth month 10
Birth year 1900
Death quarter 3
Death year 1970
District Newton Abbot
County Devon
Volume 7A
Page 1213
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
The printed death index clearly shows her first name was Amyand. Obviously the transcriber was intoxicated as they called her Edward and then could not work out her sex. I have told FindMyPast they have it rather wrong.
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There is a statement on an Ancestry Family Tree that she married a Fairbairn in Q1 of 1946. This has to be wrong for these reasons:
1. On 15th march 1952 she and her husband Herbert Grant Bevan departed England on the “Blomfontein” of the `Holland Africa Line for Rhodesia. He was 53 and retired, she was 51 and a housewife, both of Vorder, Bishopsteignton, S.Devon.
2. At death she was clearly still called Amyand M A Bevan.
3. In 1924 she had given birth to one Amyand mary Bevan and it was this daughter of hers that married the Fairbairn.
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An ancestry family tree reports she had he had three daughters, but the only plausible records are for three daughters _and_ one son:
Mother's
Surname Forename Maiden Name Gender Year Ref RD Name
BEVAN AMYAND MARY - F 1924 265/ 3 Marykirk
BEVAN MARGARET EVELYN F 1925 265/ 16 Marykirk
Name: Mother's Maiden Surname:
BEVAN, BETTY CECILIA PRATT
GRO Reference: 1926 D Quarter in NEWTON ABBOT Volume 05B Page 122
BEVAN, HERBERT RICHARD PRATT
GRO Reference: 1928 D Quarter in NEWTON ABBOT Volume 05B Page 121
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In 1939 two of her children are revealed and it is possible that the two redacted children - because they are thought to be still living - are hers as well. The birth date given for her is the same as for her birth and death registrations. They were at Verder Forder Lane, Bishopsteignton, Newton Abbot R.D., Devon:
First Last Marital Schedule
name(s) name(s) Birth date Sex Occupation status Main Sub
Herbert J Bevan 21 Jun 1898 M Tomato Cucumber Grower (Retired) M 78 1
Amyand M A Bevan 07 Oct 1900 F Unpaid Domestic Duties M 78 2
The record for this person is officially closed.
Margaret E Bevan 13 Jul 1925 F At School S 78 4
Betty C Bevan 22 Oct 1926 F At School S 78 5
The record for this person is officially closed.
Frances R Williams 21 Aug 1917 F Domestic Servant S 78 7
(Sgartland)
1939 ref: RG101/6872D/006/41
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Will notes for Amyand Mary Atherton Pratt
Her apparent probate index:
1971
BEVAN Amyand Mary Atherton of New Wy Forder La Bishopsteignton Devon died 8 August 1970 Administration (with Will) Bristol 2 February. £1123.
Will ordered to see if it shows any clues for a 1948 marriage in her name, and for which she obviously did not take the name of any second husband.
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1971
BEVAN Amyand Mary Atherton of New Wy Forder La Bishopsteignton Devon died 8 August 1970 Administration (with Will) Bristol 2 February. £1123.
Will ordered to see if it shows any clues for a 1948 marriage in her name, and for which she obviously did not take the name of any second husband.
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Notes for Herbert Grant & Amyand Mary Atherton (Family)
Their marriage register image, rather too faint by Scotland’s People, transcript by me, to the best of my ability:
“1923. Marriages in the Parish of Edzell in the County of Angus(?)
. . . .
“1923 on the Twenty Seventh day of April at the Parish Church Edzell
“ after banns according to the ???? of the Established Church of Scotland
“Herbert Grant Bevan. H G Bevan, Farmer (Bachelor), aged 24 of ????, ???, Father is Richard Bevan, Banker, retired and Witnessed by David Williamsonminister at Edzell
“Amyand Mary Atherton Pratt, signed A.M.A.Pratt, Spinster, aged 22, of Sprayfield, Kinsale, County Cork,, her father was Richard Charles Pratt and her mother was Amyand Pratt, maiden surname of Powys [ sic ], Witnessed by D Douglas of 6 Church Street, Edzell ….
Registered on 1922 April 27th at Edzell by George P Mitchell.
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“1923. Marriages in the Parish of Edzell in the County of Angus(?)
. . . .
“1923 on the Twenty Seventh day of April at the Parish Church Edzell
“ after banns according to the ???? of the Established Church of Scotland
“Herbert Grant Bevan. H G Bevan, Farmer (Bachelor), aged 24 of ????, ???, Father is Richard Bevan, Banker, retired and Witnessed by David Williamsonminister at Edzell
“Amyand Mary Atherton Pratt, signed A.M.A.Pratt, Spinster, aged 22, of Sprayfield, Kinsale, County Cork,, her father was Richard Charles Pratt and her mother was Amyand Pratt, maiden surname of Powys [ sic ], Witnessed by D Douglas of 6 Church Street, Edzell ….
Registered on 1922 April 27th at Edzell by George P Mitchell.
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