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2006
DECEMBER 2006
29 Dec 2006	Several pages of the Powditch website have been changed around and otherwise amended. New headers, and some layouts for the Peerless Powditch section have been made, although the biggest change to that section is that at long last, I have added the photographs and other illustrations which were in the original (printed) version of the book. It might have taken me nearly three years to add them to the website, but at least they are there now! I do apologise for the quality of some of the images, but as I have had to make scans from (in the main) photocopies, this has meant that some of the photographs haven't reproduced as well as I would have wished. Should it be possible for me to obtain the originals, I will then rescan them and add them to the website at a future stage. The section for William Powditch has also been amended, with new headers, etc, and it is my intention for 2007 to concentrate on getting all the data and other information I have researched on William Powditch (1795-1872) added to the website - especially as much of my information has been discovered within obscure archives and contains information not previously known about William Powditch the man, his exploits, undertakings, business and much more beside.
20 Dec 2006	Pam Powditch from Cardiff (UK) rang with the very sad news that her brother, Derek, had died on Saturday 16 December. Understandably very upset, Pam said that although Derek had been ill following a holiday he and his wife, Bronwyn, had had earlier this year, in Ghana, he seemed to be getting better. Following tests in early December, it was discovered that he unfortunately had untreatable Cancer of the Pancreas, and within 10 days of being diagnosed, he died, at the 'young' age of 69 years old. The funeral is to be held at 10am on Saturday 23 December at Coychurch Crematorium, South Wales. Our thoughts and prayers are with Bronwyn and her children, as well as with Pam, not only in their loss of a much loved Husband, Father and Brother, but also at this particular time.
20 Dec 2006	eNewsletter Nos.39-40 (October-November 2006) has been added to the website Please click here to view the details
20 Dec 2006	eNewsletter Nos.38 (September 2006) has been added to the website Please click here to view the details
NOVEMBER 2006
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OCTOBER 2006
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SEPTEMBER 2006
Sep 2006	Discovered that Vincent Powditch entered the "2006 BUPA Great Caledonian Run" as Entrant No.1044, and that he finished in 58minutes 52 seconds
23 Sep 2006	Received a letter today from Malcom Parsons, with the very sad news that his much loved mother (Jean Edith Parsons, nee Powditch) had died suddenly on the evening of Monday 18 Sep 2006. Only in her early 70s, Jean had been in relatively good health, so it came as a terrible shock, not only to her immediate family, but also to her surviving brothers and sister, to discover that she had died, and so suddenly too. More details will appear here once they are known, but for further details, have a look at page 168 onwards of Chapter 11 of Peerless Powditch's JAMES - The Welsh "Man of Norfolk"
23 Sep 2006	eNewsletter Nos.37 (August 2006) has been added to the website Please click here to view the details
23 Sep 2006	eNewsletter Nos.36 (July 2006) has been added to the website Please click here to view the details
23 Sep 2006	eNewsletter Nos.35 (June 2006) has been added to the website Please click here to view the details
23 Sep 2006	eNewsletter Nos.33-34 (April-May 2006) has been added to the website Please click here to view the details
14 to 17 Sep 2006	Second Powditch Family Gathering held at Morston, Norfolk, UK. Full details will be available soon, but everyone said that it was a really fantastic event.
AUGUST 2006
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JULY 2006
3 Jul 2006	Marjorie Powditch (Cardiff) rang to let me know that she'd not long come out of hospital following a hip replacement. Thankfully the operation was successful, and she's getting about a lot more and a lot better. Here's hoping that Marjy goes from strength to strength, and who knows, perhaps she'll be in next year's London Marathon!
JUNE 2006
7 Jun 2006	Emily Marie Cusack born today. 1st child of Sean and Kirsty Cusack (nee Smith), and granddaughter of Bryan and Marcia Smith (nee Rees)
MAY 2006
25 May 2006	Due to the amount of SPAM sent to me, all email links on this website have been replaced by 'images' with the respective address shown. In future, unless you are already in possession of my email addresses, any new individual(s) wishing to contact me, will have to type in the address (as seen in the image) into the 'To' box on their email program. Besides the above, when one hovers over the relevant 'image', e.g. the following message will be shown;- Due to the problem of SPAM, a direct link to the email address shown has been replaced on this page by an image. To send an email, please type in the the address as you see it displayed, into your Create Email 'To' box and then procede as normal. Thanks for your patience in combatting SPAM. I hope that you will appreciate the need to implement the above when you realise that on average I receive nearly 100 emails a day, and that even with filters, Firewalls, and all sorts of other 'barriers' in place, approximately 90% of those messages are pure SPAM - the deletion of which takes up valuable research time. Thank you for your forbearance.
25 May 2006	eNewsletter No.32 (March 2006) has been added to the website Please click here to view the details
25 May 2006	eNewsletter No.31 (February 2006) has been added to the website Please click here to view the details
25 May 2006	I have only just realised that the last eNewsletter advised as having been added to this site was issue No.25, for August 2005! Although the eNewsletters themselves up to and including, the January 2006 issue had already been available to view, I felt that I needed to put the matter right, so please click here to see the list of eNewsletters to date.
APRIL 2006
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MARCH 2006
30 Mar 2006	Raymond Powditch from Didcot in Oxfordshire rang this afternoon (3pm) to let me know that his much loved Mum had died, very peacefully, this morning. Aged 85, Margaret (known to everyone as 'Peggy'), had been in a Residential home for the past year, but had been in fairly good health until the past week. More details will appear here once they are known, but for her marriage to the late Raymond Urban Powditch, have a look at page 186 onwards of Chapter 12 of Peerless Powditch's "WELLS KENDLE Light across the Waters"
5 Mar 2006	The Copyright Details section of the Powditch website (formerly www.powditch.plus.com/homepages/copyright_details.htm) has been replaced by a new page, which is now entitled 'Legal Details', which more adequately describes what it contains. Please note that although the old page is still on the website, it only contains links to the new page, for which the new URL is;- www.powditch.plus.com/homepages/legal_details.htm
FEBRUARY 2006
28 Feb 2006	The following wording has been added to the Copyright (Legal) section of the website and is also added here for the attention of all users of this Powditch website. PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT (2) (as at 28 February 2006) Whilst since 21 January 2004 there has not been any overall or major change to any part or parts, words or wording of the above-stated and written 'Privacy Policy Statement (1)' (q.v. www.powditch.plus.com/homepages/legal.htm), the latter, when used in conjunction with '3. Terms and Conditions (part 1)', needs some minor clarification. Whereas the first paragraph of this above-stated and written 'Privacy Policy Statement (1)' (dated 21 January 2004) includes the wording of;- "Your right to Privacy is very important, and I recognise that when you choose to provide me with information about yourself and/or your own family or associated members of the Powditch family, you trust me to act in a responsible manner. I believe that such information when freely given by yourself, and without any restrictions being placed on the dissemination of same at the point of your providing to me such information (in whatever format you choose) should only be used to help me to provide the Powditch family, its descendants and associated families, with a better knowledge of its history, both past and present." it may be deemed that some of the words and/or wording in the latter may contain a conflict with the wording within the above-written Section 3 of 'Terms and Conditions (part 1) within which paragraphs 4 and 5 are included the words and/or wording of;- (Paragraph 3) "Any communication or material you transmit to the website and/or to JCA - the Powditch family archivist by electronic mail or otherwise, including any news, information, data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary unless otherwise advised by you at the time of transmitting same." (plus) (Paragraph 4) "Anything you transmit or post may be used without restriction by JCA or his affiliates for any purpose, including but not limited to reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast, and posting unless otherwise advised by you at the time of transmitting same. Furthermore, JCA is free to use any news, information, ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication or material you send to the website and/or to JCA - the Powditch family archivist for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing, and marketing products using such information unless otherwise advised by you at the time of transmitting same." Whilst I am not aware of any direct 'conflict' within any of the above Terms, Conditions and/or Policy or Policies, I do wish to ensure that effective 'clarification' is made in order to ensure that all Visitors and Users to and of this website, as well as all individuals (both Powditch and non-Powditch) who freely and willingly provide information to me through the medium of electronic mail (hereinafter referred to as email) are fully aware of what action or actions are taken in respect of such freely and willingly provided information With effect from 28 February 2006, the abovementioned and stated Paragraph 1 of the 'Privacy Policy Statement (1)' (dated 21 January 2004) together with Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the above-written Section 3 of 'Terms and Conditions (part 1) is and are deemed to include the meaning, interpretation and legal translation that wherever necessary, and where and wherever made, revolving around and being based upon situations which arise from time to time and/or when information is freely and willingly provided to me by individuals (both Powditch and non-Powditch) through the medium of electronic mail (hereinafter referred to as email) without any written (typed or written) statement or stated requirement by the sender that such information as is being or has been freely and willingly provided to me by such individuals (both Powditch and non-Powditch) is not for reproduction either within any part or parts of this website or within any part or parts of any future Powditch publication, I will retain the full and unconditional right, ability and legality together with full legal power and powers to include such information either in its full and entire context or in an edited (by myself) form or format where such information is or has been freely and willingly provided to me by individuals (both Powditch and non-Powditch) through the medium of email. I do apologise for the formality of the wording, but as I have been advised that one person in the past has downloaded the Powditch website in its entirety without seeking any permission from me or from any of the Powditchs mentioned on the website, and as such total downloading (without written permission) is in blatant contravention of their (and all) ISPs Terms and Conditions, it is only right that the wording of the above be amended to reflect the seriousness of their action.
27 Feb 2006	Ann Boyd (from Barry in South Wales) emailed me in response to my own, together with John Peake's (of Blakeney), email reply to her. The contents of her message being;- "Thank you very much for your information. We have also received an e-mail with some most interesting information from John Peake. It confirms a story handed down in the Boyd family that they were once a well to do family. The story goes that, somewhere along the line, the black sheep inherited and lost all the money on slow horses and fast women! In some censuses Alexander Boyd is shown as having no occupation or being a farmer. The family moved around so much that it led me to think that he might have been an itinerant farm labourer. However, since my e-mail to you I had discovered that Alexander Boyd's occupation was listed on several documents as "Gentleman" which confirmed that he had a private income of some sort. The sale catalogue that we have is a sale of all the animals and farm equipment of Morston Hall Farm, and draws a fascinating picture of the farming of the day. There is no map. Alexander Boyd and family moved to Wales sometime between 1854 and 1861. They spent some time at Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, then moved to Pontardulais and, finally to Llanmaes just down the road from where we live in Barry! Alexander's second son, Charles, became a Station Master at Llanwrda, Carms., and married a local girl, Ann Thomas. That branch of the family stayed in the Llandeilo area. Their eldest son, Alexander, is my husband's grandfather. My husband's father, was born near Llandeilo and still lives there, but spent 24 years in the RAF and married a Geordie. My husband also joined the RAF. Consequently, until my husband and I married, and he himself left the RAF, my husband had never lived anywhere more than 3 years at a time. (I am Birmingham born of English parents, but moved to West Wales when I was 2 years old - so it's the dragon I shout for at Rugby matches!) It is just such a coincidence therefore, that we end up living not 10 miles from where his great great grandfather eventually settled, and it is highly likely that there are distant relatives nearby. To finish, thank you again for your help, and I shall continue on this most fascinating search. Ann."
24 Feb 2006	Notty Hornblower (from UK) responded to the Powditch eNewsletter for December 2005 / January 2006 and other correspondence, to say;- "Thanks for the newsletter. Also for the photo of my grandfather which arrived safely. For information, my Costume Museum website is now up and running at www.hopehousemuseum.co.uk "
23 Feb 2006	Carol and Ron Stone (from Northants, UK) emailed in response to an email I'd sent to Carol re Sydney Bardwell Powditch, a relative of her late Father's "Many thanks for this info on Sydney Bardwell Powditch, (I have always known his second name spelt this way?) I know little about his history except from that contained in his obituary that you feature in 'Peerless Powditches'. However, this does reveal a very interesting and full life. I have one 'head and shoulder' photo of him, obviously dressed in WW1 uniform and looking very young. With the family now very depleted, it is nice to find snippits of information about past relatives. I wonder if there are any relations from Mary Ann Powditch somewhere. Ken MacDonald sent me a few photocopies of photographs I had not seen before, among them is a group photo taken on the beach. I assume the group comprises some Borehams as well as James and Henrietta, but there are also some females that could be Powditches (although a couple look a bit formidable!) I'd love to know who they all are but even Ken cannot put names to them all. Also among the photos are pictures of young Ivy, Hilda and William that I'm very pleased to have. In a book that belonged to grandad there is an inscription on the inside cover 'to Arthur from his cousin Gerti'. I wondered if this could be Gertrude Powditch (Orfordness Lighthouse) but from correspondence received from Ken, I now know this Gerti must be a cousin on the Boreham side of the family, named after Henrietta's sister Agnes Gertrude. I am finding out a bit about this family as I have wondered how Henrietta and James met. I am intrigued to know where Gertrude Powditch went to from Orfordness, but I know you came to a deadend in your searches. Also thanks for enewsletter 29/30 - some very interesting info to digest. The greeting card/notelets idea sounds good - I'd be interested in the notelets."
15 Feb 2006	Eddie Moore (from the UK) emailed me to say;- "It's been a strange old week, out of the blue my tree has unearthed a half brother we knew nothing about, two lost uncles and confirmation of a Swiss side to my family that we always thought a young girls fantasy (my paternal Grandmother linage)"
15 Feb 2006	Pat and Peter Powditch (from Adelaide, Australia) emailed me with details (and photos) of their new granddaughter, Brooke, who was born on 9 February 2006. Mum and Dad are well and really thrilled.
14 Feb 2006	Ann Boyd (from Barry in South Wales) emailed me regarding her Wood ancestry, and their connection with Morston in Norfolk (UK) "I'm currently researching my husband's paternal family history. My husband's great great grandfather, Alexander Boyd, married Caroline Louisa Wood in 1849. Caroline Wood was born in Marston, and we have a farm sale catalogue for the sale of Morston Hall Farm in 1865. The Boyd family moved to Wales between 1854 and 1861, as they appear in the 1861 Wales census. Alexander Boyd was originally from Middlesex. He's listed on various censuses as a Farmer, but we suspect he may have been a farm labourer. Just on the off chance, I put Morston into a search engine, and your web site, which mentions a family called Wood appears, came up. Could you tell me if the Woods owned Morston Hall Farm please? I see that there is a Morston Hall Hotel - is that the same place? Hoping you can help."
11 Feb 2006	Sue Palin (from the UK) emailed me re the Clemerson family to say;- "Dear John and Angie, Hello!! If you have ever wondered where Geo.Clemerson was during the 1851 census, he was staying with my gg/grandparents in Ilkeston! They were Richard Daykin (b 1808 Kirk Hallam) and Ann (nee Clemerson) b 25.12.1809 in Loughborough. The scribe who took the details off the census form has him down as Geo. Chanison of Laughton Leics. b 1829 Engineer. However the writing is poor and Ann is also down as from Laughton and I know it should be Loughborough. I have been researching the Daykin line (my mother was Ann and Richard's g/granddaughter. I was given your email address by Geoff.Clemerson whom I tracked down via Directory Enq. and a very helpful "Clemerson" in Loughborough. I was born in Cardiff as was my mother, and I know that there is a South Wales connection through George. Although I don't think there any other blood ties since Ann, it's interesting that my grandfather Thos. Bailey Daykin of Ilkeston, ended up there. I'm looking forward to contacting the Ilkeston Clemersons not least because they may be able to throw some light on the parentage of Richard Daykin (b1808). He seems to have disappeared from all birth records. I look forward to hearing from you if you think I can be of help to you."
8 Feb 2006	Clive Jones (from Monmouth, UK) emailed me in reply to an enquiry I'd received re the Bentley family of Staffordshire. He advised;- "I will e-mail Louise with what I have. There might be a connection but there may not be. I haven't got up to date details for Richard but I am in touch with Herbert and so I can get them. Helen Hallsey (world's leading expert on Swansea pottery) is very interested in George B and I will contact Mrs. H to see if she has any further info."
5 Feb 2006	Received an email from someone saying that her name is;- "Michelle Lorraine Amanda Powditch [and that her] My connection to the Powditch Family is...: Descendent." As the email address she provided does not appear to be correct, if anyone knows of the said Michelle Lorraine Amanda Powditch, of her correct email address, and/or in which Country she lives, and also exactly how she is descended through the Powditch family, I'd be most grateful to discover more, especially as she doesn't appear within any of my Powditch records!
5 Feb 2006	Pat and Peter Powditch (from Adelaide, Australia) caught up with me to say;- "Dear John, how are things in Wales? we hope all is well with you and Angie and the family. I was going through our holiday pictures in the computer the other night and felt quite nostalgic when I looked at Peter's DVD of the [2004 Powditch Family] reunion with Auld Lang syne playing softly in the background."
2 Feb 2006	Geoff Clemerson (from Cornwall, UK) emailed to say;- "Have just spoken to a lady, Sue Palin, from Knutsford, who turns out to be yet another 'lost' descendant of Thomas Clemerson. She had seen your website and has apparently been trying to contact me for some time using a very old (1998) e-mail address. Sue is fairly new to genealogy, but has been using the services of one of the most respected members of the Leicestershire FHS, and I think she may have turned up one or two details that we did not have. It sems to throw some light on George's marriage and migration to South Wales. I am looking forward to seeing exactly what she has got. I will keep you posted if there are any exciting new revelations !"
JANUARY 2006
30 Jan 2006	Alan Powditch (from Narberth, South Wales) had been looking on the internet and had come across some mentions of Powditch which he wanted to share with me and others, as follows;- "Last night I was searching the internet for other Powditch's wanted to know if there were any in America. I don't think I found any, but did find that there;- is a club that has a Powditch Trophy RSGB. Maxwell Powditch was chairman of FINSIA 1990 - 1994 Asian Securities Inc., Anya Powditch from Canada thats all I have on her., Nikki Powditch who lost her dog in Twyford Woods. Mrs S. Powditch of Grove church LLM in training., Then there's John Powditch a Assistant Director of movies, also known as John 'JP' Powditch/John P Powditch. I hope this is new information is helpfull." Yes, Alan, it was - many thanks for sharing the information.
15 Jan 2006	Peter Kile (from Victoria, Australia) emailed me to say;- "Thanks again for your card and kind thoughts after the passing of Marie. The last 4 months I have worked a lot on the Jouvelet family tree to give you the updates as promised and I have only dealt in offical records. When I first read the Jouvelet tree on your site I knew there were several errors but I need to check these officially through certificates and talking directly to those involved with the loss of loved ones. What I will do for now is attach official records of the part that interests you the most the Powditch Connection to the Jouvelet family. There were actually 6 children produced through the union of Philippe Jouvelet & Blanche Powditch, there is no record of the birth of Louis. I will send you the draft document on the Jouvelet tree that I have. People may question what I have about this but all my records are 100 per cent official records and not word of mouth. There are quite a few differences to the Jouvelet tree you have that will require carefull reading as it is in my format and not that of your web site version. I still have a little more to come and will let you know of any changes. I really enjoy the emails I get from your newsletter and the effort you go to. The research on my own Kile tree has been going for about 4 years and is now over 100 pages and I am still only about 75% done. Thanks once again for your time and kind thoughts Peter Kile"
8 Jan 2006	Eddie Moore (from the UK) replied to a message I'd previously sent to him. In his reply he wrote;- "Thanks for the additional information, I've included a pdf file to show the descendants of Jemima Powditch that I'm part of, no Heinrichs or Castell's here sorry! How's this for strange, as I said my name is Moore (changed by deedpole), and Freeman by birth. When I married I realised that had I not changed my name my wife would have become Freeman, which was my mother in law's maiden name, in turn her mother was a Clarke. So the line went Clarke, Freeman, Clark, Freeman, it will be very strange if my daughter marries a Clark. I've spent only about five years so far in my research so still a beginner compared to you, I've also had quite a bit of luck compared to my bother in law researching the Clark and Freeman lines on my wife's side. I also have found the additional Census index's online (1851, 61, 71) very valuable in building a bigger picture of the family's and for narrowing down likely ancestors. As you know the census is a mine of other information, occupation, address. My ancestor's span many counties, Cornwall, Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdonshire, Essex, Buckinghamshire, Sussex and Middlesex as well as Eire. It's still hard to believe how little family's moved until the rail network became quite extensive. I have found clusters where the family members seem to predominate all the villages in a 10 mile radius. Several of my family lines came together in the Walworth, Camberwell area of south London because they all were members of the same Methodist parish, e.g. Partridge, Measures, Vassie, Palmer and Read. Yes I would very interested in any notes you have on the Stepney's although my brush with them is very brief. I'm also intrigued by you web sites indication that you have data going back pre 1200 The source of the family tree that had Victoria in was submitted be a W C Marsh in South Wales, although I wrote to him a couple of years back I never received a reply I don't know if the address was still relevant. Eddie"
6 Jan 2006	Sue Hawes (from Australia) replied to an email I'd sent to her, to say;- "Thankyou, for your informative email. I really appreciate your offer of help and the inclusion of my query into your eNewsletter. My fathers great, great, great Grandfather was Benjamin Hawes who married Sophie Brunel, sister of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Their son, Benjamin Park Hawes worked for the East India Company and died in Mundlasir, India in a mutiny in 1956. His wife Anne, (daughter of Patrick Cussen) then moved to Chile with her children. To date, all I know is that my great Grandfather Francis Brunel Hawes was a doctor who travelled widely and may have lived in the North of Chile. I know from his obituary that my Grandfather, Richard Brunel Hawes, also a doctor, was born in Tarapaca in 1893. I searched the BISA.net website and my Grandfather and his sister, Dorothy are listed in the 1901 UK Census, with no place or status. There is another listing for Hawes in the Kelly Directory of a Business in 1903 in Iquique. I am extremely interested as to why Anne moved to Chile by herself and would like to learn more of her and her life. I also intend visiting Chile (hopefully this year) to learn more about the 1800s and the English migration. I have become very interested with the more I read and am thinking of writing about this for a Masters project. Thus, to summarise my query for your newsletter: I am interested in information about Anne (nee Cussens) wife of Benjamin Park Hawes who moved to Chile around 1956 or later, and her descendants; one of which Richard Brunel Hawes, was born in Tarapaca in 1893. Yes, Melbourne is an interesting city. I have lived here five years now. There is a fascinating Immigration museum. There is an association with my ancestor Brunel and Melbourne, in that he designed a ship, The Great Britian which transported early migrants to Australia, landing to the north of here, where there is a quarantine stations. There is a Great Britian Society here which I keep meaning to get in touch with. Thanks again"
5 Jan 2006	Anne Willoughby (of Tokyo and Australia) emailed me to say;- "Many thanks for the interesting Christmas card which arrived safely. Certainly not one which will be disposed of in the near future! I am thinking of coming next September but I suspect I will not be in a position to know until about July. My Powditch descent is through Margaret Powditch (1758-1830), daughter of Margaret Bell (1733-1790) and Thomas Powditch (1727(?) -1774). She was also grand daughter of Thomas Powditch and Grace Kitteridge (christened 1697). Grace came from the Lowestoft area of Suffolk and her husband (whom she married in 1725 in Lowestoft, after the baptism of a son, Thomas Kitteredge, earlier that year) and moved to North Shields in Northumberland. My ancestor Margaret Powditch was thus an aunt of William Powditch (1795-1872)."
3 Jan 2006	Susan Hawes ( from Victoria, Australia) emailed me to say;- "I am interested in tracing my fathers family who migrated to Chile around 1859. I have always wanted to find information about my great great grandmother, who migrated to Chile with her children after her husband died in 1859. I don't know of a connection between my family and the Powditch family but as I know very little and am not sure how to go about researching this, I am also interested in other British migrants in the 1800s. I know my Grandfather was born in Tarapaca and have been searching a number of geneology websites."
1 Jan 2006	Wishing a very Happy and Healthy 2006 to everyone and hoping that you'll have lots of happiness and much friendship throughout the year.