Harold Cunliffe Edward POWYS

These are the various documents he left behing summarising his<pre>

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1 SOUR Letter - Letters from Ethel Powys - 1 DATE 1999- TFPL - Oct '99

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1 TYPE Book

1 AUTH Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe

1 PERI Powys-Lybbe genealogy

1 TEXT researches. They included:

1 TEXT (1) His master tree of all families married by our forebears.

1 TEXT (2) His formal pedigree of the Powyses, in the style of Burke.

1 TEXT (3) His two pages of trees of various descents from medieval

1 TEXT royalty, including the Trotters back to the Scottish Stewarts.

1 TEXT (4) His trees of the recent Trotter marriages.

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1 TEXT Remarkably most of this has proved to be confirmed by publicly

1 TEXT available documents and some of it is a remarkable set of

1 TEXT findings. One or two errors have appeared, mainly where he got

1 TEXT the wrong wife as the ancestor. Perhaps only 20% of this

1 TEXT remains to be checked, principally the families married into by

1 TEXT the Trotters in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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1 TEXT However his besetting and frustrating fault is his almost

1 TEXT invariable omission of sources and similarly of dates.

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1 TEXT I suspect he relied heavily on Burke's Extinct Peerage, judging

1 TEXT by the heavily thumbed copy in APL's possession in 1999. But

1 TEXT there is also evidence that went to various libraries and paid

1 TEXT handsomely for primary documentary evidence of some 16th and

1 TEXT 17th century families.

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1 TEXT Nevertheless most of my work has been to extend and verify his

1 TEXT enormous efforts. He really was a serious genealogist (like

1 TEXT Martin but who follows the stricter regime of the last quarter

1 TEXT of the 20th century) and I have considerable admiration for what

1 TEXT he found out.

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