Herbert Harry Powell (1915-1978)

Dates

Birth: 26 June 1915 Felpham, West Sussex, UK
Father: Frank John Powell 1887-1917
Mother: Nellie Blanche Marsh [Barnes, Farne, Strange] 1891-1971

Marriage: October-December 1938 Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Wife: Doris Jessie Menzies [Butler] 1918-1998

Marriage: 25 August 1973 Aldwick Free Church (Baptist), Gossamer Lane, Aldwick, W. Sussex, UK
Wife: Ann Margaret Coles [Tryhorn] 1941-2021

Death: 8 August 1978 Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, Greater London, UK

Children

By Doris
Doris N Powell 1940
Winifred J Powell 1941
Michael John Maxwell Powell 1944
Howard A B Powell 1948
Catherine B Powell 1950
Robert R S Powell 1952
Stuart Cameron (Cammeron) Powell 1960-2018

Notes

Birth of Herbert H Powell, mother's maiden name Marsh, in FreeBMD in April-June 1915 in Westhampnett (2B 580).

Entry in Ancestry West Sussex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 for Herbert Harry Powell born 26 June 1915 and baptised 22 August 1915 at St Mary the Virgin, Felpham, parents Frank John and Nellie Blanche Powell. "Page 36 Baptism solemnized in the Parish of St Mary the Virgin Felpham in the Diocese of Chichester in the County of Sussex in the Year One thousand nine hundred and fifteen [...] [born] June 26th 1915 Aug: 22nd 1915 No. 320 Herbert Harry [parents] Frank John [a] Farm Labourer now private in XII Ser Batt R.S.R. & Nellie Blanche Powell [of] Felpham."

Entry in Ancestry UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 for Herbert Harry Powell, son of Frank John Powell No. 1204 Rl. Sussex died 13 August 1917, widowed mother Nellie Powell born 29 March 1891 and brother Victor George Powell born 27 May 1917.

His mother married Arthur Barnes in Chichester in 1918 and Maurice S Strange in 1925.

Marriage of Herbert H Powell and Doris J Menzies in FreeBMD in October-December 1938 in Chichester (2b 975).

In the 1939 Register as Herbert H Powell born 26 June 1915, married, incapacitated formerly a illegible, and living with Doris J Powell (wife?), James B Strange (born 26 May 1878 and a hawker greengrocer) and Rowland Howward Sims and Peter B Sims (born 2 January 1929 and 14 January 1934) at 34 Walnut Avenue, Chichester, Sussex.

His seven children were registered in Chichester in 1940 to 1960.

Entry in the Register of Marriages for Herbert H Powell and Ann M Coles in July-September 1973 in Chichester (5H 1480).

Death of Herbert Harry Powell, born 26 June 1917 (sic - on the typed original), in July-September 1978 in Fulham (12 677).

There are six entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Herbert Harry/Henry Powell adding his marriage on 25 August 1973 "Married at Aldwick Free Church (Baptist), Gossamer Lane, Aldwick, W. Sussex. Marriage cert identifies address at 5 Sandymount Close, Bognor Regis. Employed as a Staff Nurse." and his death on 8 August 1978 "Died at Charing Cross Hospital (Fulham), Hammersmith. Occupation shown as Superintendent of an old peoples home, address 21 Parkhill Rise, East Croydon, Surrey Cause of death Carcinomatosis and Hodgkins Disease"

Note Westhampnett became part of Chichester in 1935.

Relationship

Herbert H Powell was the father of Stuart Cameron Powell, husband of Eugene M Robinson, my fourth cousin twice removed.

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