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Im trying to trace information on my Grandfather Lawrence Power born 1900 his father was James power and mother possible M Power they came over to manchester bradford from waterford in 1900 .. lawrence had 3 siblings Bertha, Emily and Katie .. This is all the info that I have .. fingers crossed someone may know lawrences mothers name.. some family history and if im really lucky family back in waterford !!! ive searched and searched all records i can lay my hands on the UK but not one thing from around 1900 as come up not even on the 1901 census!!

1901 transcribed Powell
!Name: James Powell
Age: 51
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1850
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Maria
Gender: Male
Where born: Ireland

Name: Maria Powell
Age: 41
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1860
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: James
Gender: Female
Where born: Ireland

Civil Parish: South Manchester
Ecclesiastical parish: Gorton All Saints
County/Island: Lancashire

Name: Lawrence Powell
Age: 8 months
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1900
Relation: Son
Father's Name: James
Mother's Name: Maria
Gender: Male
Where born: Gorton, Lancashire, England

Civil Parish: South Manchester
Ecclesiastical parish: Gorton All Saints
Household Members: Name Age
Ann J Powell 12 Where born: Manchester, Lancashire, England
Bertha Powell 5 Where born: Gorton, Lancashire,
Catherine Powell 7 Where born: Gorton,
Ellen Powell 22 Where born: Ireland
Emily Powell 19 Where born: Birkenhead, Cheshire
James Powell 51
James Powell 16 Where born: Birkenhead, Cheshire
John Powell 14 Where born: Manchester, Lancashire, England
Lawrence Powell 8 months Where born: Gorton, Lancashire
Maria Powell 41


Civil Parish: South Manchester
Ecclesiastical parish: Gorton All Saints

Following up on Janice's info, the IGI has this (searching for births to James Power and Maria, 1875-1895, British Isles):


Ellen Power
Birth: 17 MAR 1879 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Father: James Power
Mother: Maria Butler

Messages:
Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. No additional information is available. Ancestral File may list the same family and the submitter.

Source Information:
No source information is available.


For what it's worth!

1891 England Census
about James Power
Name: James Power
Age: 44
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Maria
Gender: Male
Where born: Killkemsey, Ireland (that should read Kilkenny)

Civil Parish: Gorton
Ecclesiastical parish: All Saints
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Registration district: Chorlton
Sub-registration district: Ardwick
ED, institution, or vessel: 46
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Ann J Power 2
Elen Power 12 (Dublin)
Elizabeth Power 3/12
Emily Power 9
James Power 44
James Power 6
John Joseph Power 4
Maria Power 32 (Kilkemsey)
Mary Power 14 (Dublin)

Same parents for a Mary, same unsourced record type:


Mary Power
Birth: 05 FEB 1877 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Father: James Power
Mother: Maria Butler


There are Power births in Waterford, but not to a James and Maria specifically.

But hey. The 1901 shows Lawrence and some siblings as born in England. ... But your info is that he was born in Ireland ...


This looks like the one in that census:


Name: Lawrence Power
Year of Registration: 1900
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Chorlton
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 866

Ah, so the 1901 household is probably not Sharron's people? If her migration info is correct.

Possible marriage:

IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International

James Power

Event(s):
Marriages:
Spouse: Maria Butler
Marriage: 1876 Dublin, Ireland

The Ellen and Mary in those unsourced birth records do match up perfectly with the daughters in the household in the two censuses. -- Oh, I just realized the ones in the censuses are shown as born in Dublin, so that's an excellent match. And how common a name was Lawrence Power -- how many infants with that name and Irish-born parents would there be in Lancashire in 1901??

I have to agree with you Kathryn, particularly with the mention of "Bertha"

The date and place data got omitted from your post Janice, because of the pointy brackets:


James Power
Spouse: Maria Butler
[1876] [Dublin, Dublin, Ireland]


Edit -- What am I saying, "Janice" -- Lew! The night shift is on ...

And, Lew, in 1901, Catherine -- Katie:


Name: Catherine Power
Year of Registration: 1893
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Chorlton
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 853


I assume all those "Gorton"s in the transcriptions are really Chorlton.

Yes, it's far to coincidental, Kathryn

Kathryn, I just had a look on multimap. Gorton is actually a district in Manchester, the registration district is Chorlton

Lew x

The blind leading the blind, when it comes to English geography, eh?

How far removed are you from your English roots, anyhow? (For me, it's a century on one side, 75 years on the other, me being the second generation born in Canada.)

I wonder whether Sharron will rejoin the conversation.

Sharron did pm me, Kathryn.

My Richardsons come from Scotland in about 1890 (about 120 years) and my Burtts came from US around 1865 (143 years), although I'm started to wonder about the Burtt lot. Nobody can find anything about him in the US and one of his grandsons was called John Transvaal Burtt which leads me to think there is a South African connection!

Edited to say: got yr message Sharron, ta -- always best to post replies in the thread though! That way anyone else who could help, or to whom the info might be useful, can see it. Let us know when you get the cert!

Now I must turn my attention to this John Transvaal Burtt ...

ooh ive only jus realised I can join in this chat ive been replying to you as ive read each message hi u2 by the way !! and thanks for helping me i know i keep saying it but im amzed!! my phone as bene on fire tonight rining around giving the latest info to family

Hi Ladies, thanks for all your help I got Lawrences Brith Certicate address matches census.. which also means the surname on census should be Power not Powell ..

Does anyone know any good websites where I can now move my search to Ireland to trace James Power and Marie butler ?

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy/introduction.html
I do not know about records in Ireland only that a lot were destroyed. The above link may help.