caroline powell, Christchurch graveyard (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, March 22, 2014, 18:35 (3900 days ago) @ doran54

You could try researching the names to see if they seem part of your tree.
eg the 1935 picture has a Graham Powell aged maybe 5 or so?, and behind him a Pat Powell who looks like an older sister.
Searching this site's PRs, plus GlosBMD and FreeBMD shows these are not common names, particularly Graham. Pat is probably Patricia altho could be Patience ?

FreeBMD has the following birth which seems most likely to be the lad in the photo, Monmouth being the correct District for registering Coleford/Christchurch births;

Surname Given Name Mother District Volume Page Transcriber
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Births Sep 1930
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Powell Graham Morgan Monmouth 11a 34 coralieM

Could this be P be for Pat ?
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Births Jun 1929
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Powell Margaret P. Morgan Monmouth 11a 39 jakems
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

By no means certain but amongst the various Powell/Morgan marriages on GlosBMD this one stands out to me as most likely

Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building Year Register Entry
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POWELL Frank MORGAN Dorothy Elizabeth Forest of Dean Monmouth Register Office 1929 30 109
http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/MarriageSearch.aspx

Similarly searching local Powell/Morgan marriages on FreeBMD shows the above Marriage tookplace in the Jan/Feb/MARch quarter of 1929.

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
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Marriages Mar 1929 (>99%)
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Morgan Dorothy E Powell Monmouth 11a 56
Powell Frank Morgan Monmouth 11a 56

Again from GlosBMD, this seems the best fit for Frank's birth, altho not a rare name at all of course.

Birth Details
Child Surname Child Forename Father Surname Mother Surname Mother's Former Name Year District Office Register Entry
POWELL Frank POWELL POWELL WATKINS 1904 Forest of Dean Monmouth, Coleford 61 259

And so on. These can also be searched out in the 1911 Census to help build the tree, and see if it's possibly part of yours.
Also these older events come into the coverage of this website's PRs, this looks like Frank;

Record_ID: 371610
Entry_Number: 215
Year: 1904
Month: Nov
Day: 9
Parents_Surname: POWELL
Child_Forenames: Frank
Fathers_Forenames: Tom
Mothers_Forenames: Lucy
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Crossways
Occupation: Collier
Officiating_Minister: E.H. Brice
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P93 IN 1/8
Page_Number: 27
Parish_Chapel: Coleford
Soundex: P400

I cannot find a Marriage on this site, but back to the ever-useful GlosBMD gives this Marriage which proves that Lucy was indeed a Watkins as per Frank's birth registration.

Criteria entered: Groom Surname: powell, Groom Forename: tom, Bride Forename: lucy,

Number of entries matching criteria entered: 1

Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building Year Register Entry
POWELL Tom WATKINS Lucy Forest of Dean Monmouth Register Office 1888 15 8

etc etc...

Do any of these names fit in your tree at all ?

Hoping this helps, happy hunting, Jeff