William# Powis

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This is the last in the Powis line that I am 100% sure of,, in fact I'm fairly sure his parents etc. as shown ARE INCORRECT.
Originally because of the 'of Greenwich' on his grave I leapt to the conclusion that he was from the Powis family of Brewers of Greenwich. However I now think that's he's actually from the Westminster area and only lived in Greenwich later on for about 20 or so years.

1.On his marriage to Ann he was of the parish of St Clement Danes, London. Which is on the Strand. Another reference of the marriage says 'Wych Steet Strand'. So he may be "formerly of Greenwich" at some point but it seems pretty clear that he was living in the Strand area in 1793. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wych_Street
2.In 1794 http://www.londonancestor.com/kents/kents-d.htm there was a firm of Woolen Drapers in Wych Street called Dawson & Powis. He married Ann Horlick. The Horlick's were Clothiers ; possibly they met through the trade.
3.His eldest dau Ann Maria was chr in St Clement Danes in 1794, but by the time she got married in 1815 she was "eldest dau of Mr William Powis of Crooms Hill, Greenwich"
4.His second dau Elizabeth I have as born in Greenwich in 1796. I presume I got that off her census entry, but I'd need to double check.
5.Either way Wm Horlick born in Woolwich in 1804. Charles Horlick Greenwich 1806. Jane Powis chr in Greenwich in 1807. Henry Powis chr in Greenwich in 1810.
6.When Ann Maria died in 1832, her father was living at 'Wilminton Square, London'. Wilmington Square is Finsbury/Clerkenwell. He is still in that area on the 1841 census.
7.The Dawson/Powis partnership broke up in 1794, the Powis was a William, although we don't know if that was a father or this person.

So I think either he was a draper in Wych St., or the son of a Wm Powis who was a draper in Wych St. It looks like he was only living in Greenwich from around 1796/1804 up until sometime after 1815 but before 1832. So that's quite a considerable time, certainly enough to warrant 'formerly of' on his grave but not enough to actually mean he was born there or that he is anything to do with the brewers (although he still might be further back).

That said it appears that Dawson was acting on his own a/c in Wych St for many years before Powis 'arrived' and the partnership did not appear to last long, so maybe he was actually in some other line and just dabbled in Drapery (perhaps due to Dawson's earlier bankruptcy?). But there are earlier Powys' in St Clement Danes who were drapers.

However also note that in the 1841 census (in Middlesex) he is shown as NOT born in this county ; ruling out Westminster and thus St Clement Danes.
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Found the following via Google books ; The Gentleman's Magazine 1793 'Marriages of Considerable Persons' - 22 Aug ; Mr Wm Powis of Wynch-street to Miss Anne Horlick of Great Queen Street' . On family search this says; 22 AUG 1793 , St Giles In The Fields, Holborn, London, England. William born About 1768 Of St Clemanta,Danes,London, England and Anne born About 1772 Of St Giles In The Fields, Holborn, London, England". But these dates seem to be 'guessed' by taking 25 for the groom and 21 for the bride.
But then also; Times August 24 1793: "Thursday was married, at St Giles in the Fields, Mr William Powis of Wych Street Strand to Miss Ann Horlick of Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, late of PAINSWICK, Glos."

London Gazette 2nd Sept 1794;
London, August 30, 1794 Messrs . Thomas Dawson and William Powis, of Wych Street in the Strand, Woolen-Drapers, beg Leave to return Thanks to their Friends and the Public in general and likewise to inform them that the Partnership lately subsisting between them was, on the 28th of July last, dissolved by mutual Consent and the Business in future will be carried on by the said Thomas Dawson only.
Tho. Dawson.
Wm. Powis

Jane Powis IGI has; Chr 14 Apr 1807 GREENWICH, Kent. Parents Wm Powis and Mrs. Anne. Then if drill down on father it says HIS parents are Richard Powis and Phoebe. However this DoB out slightly on her age in '41 census, but that is rounded.

Times November 8 1815; Married: At New Church in the Isle of Wight, on 2nd inst by the Rev.Sneyd, Mr William Harries of Stroudwater Gloucestershire, to Ann Maria, eldest daughter of Mr William Powis of Crooms Hill Greenwich in the county of Kent.

Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette; Thurs 13 Sep 1832; Died. Sept 7 of cholera, at her father's residence, Mrs.Ann Maria Harris, eldest dau of Wm Powis esq, Wilminton-square, London and niece to Charles Horlick esq; Painswick, Glos.

1837 ; Powis, Wm Esq, Wilmington Sq, London was one of the subscribers to "The Histories and Antiquities of Shrewsbury" Vol 1 By Thomas Phillips, James Bowen, Charles Hulbert, pub 1837. Interestingly his brother-in-law Charles Horlick of Painswick was also one of the subscribers. I can see why the Horlick's were interested as it mentions Samuel Horlick (qv), but I'm not sure why Wm Powis would be interested unless a) it indicates his family originally come from that area or b) it was really his wife who was interested.

1841 Census; Living as head, age ~70, at Amwell, St James, Clerkenwell, London. Not born this county. Living with wife, 3 dau (1 married) and 2 servants. Occupation; Independent means.

http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/GLS/Painswick/MIs.html;
Headstone at St Mary's, PAINSWICK, Glos;
"William POWIS, Esq,
Formerly of Greenwich, County of Kent,
Died at Farm Butts, this parish,
1 Jan 1845, 74
Ann, w, died at Ham Butts,
18 April 1845, 78"

Can't find either Ann or Wm in '51 cenus, which tie in with graves. In '51 all the Jane Powis' are married, all the E's ditto. There is however an Elizabeth Baylis, 55, married (but husband not there) who was born in GREENWICH, Kent and is annuitant living in Bold St., Liverpool with her 2 children who are born in PAINSWICK Glos (other Cheltenham). Dau are dressmakers.

Glos Archives (Found National Archives website) 1844-1925 Contents: Deeds of a cottage near the Pound in the tithing of Edge and 44p. in Ham Field (formerly Barn Close) near Painswick (Powis family of Painswick)



-- Thomas Dawson, Draper of Wych St.
Surrey Archives 1787;
Attested copy settlement made prior to marriage of John Shipton Bradley and Elizabeth Greenwood Dawson 1) John Shipton Bradley of Parsons Green, Fulham, Middlesex, gent 2) John Jenner of New Inn, Middlesex, gent 3) Elizabeth Greenwood Dawson of Wych Street, St Clement Danes, Middlesex, spinster 4) Thomas Dawson of Wych Street, woollen draper; Rowland Minns of Surrey Street, the Strand, Middlesex, tailor. Moiety of lands in Epsom, mentioned in the bill of complaint (186/4/7)
Unit Date 25 Sep 1787

London Gazette 28th May 1793
The Creditors who have proved their Debts under a Commission of Bankrupt awarded and issued forth against Thomas Dawson, of Wych-Street in the Strand in the County of Middlesex, Woollen-Draper, Dealer and Chapman, are desired to meet the Assignees on the 4th of June instant, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, at the Baptist Head Coffee House, Aldermanbury, London, to assent to or dissent from the said Asignees commencing, prosecuting or defendinng any Suit or Suits at Law or in Equity concerning the said Bankrupt's Estate and Effects ; or to the compounding, submitting to Arbitration, or otherwise agreeing, any Matter or Thing relating thereto; and also to assent to or dissent from the said Assignees selling and disposing of all or any Part of the said Bankrupt's
Stock in Trade, Household Goods and other Effects, by private Contract, and upon Credit or otherwise; and to take into Consideration other special Matters relative to the said Bankrupt's
Estate, the Particulars of which will be then laid before them

London Gazette 26 Oct 1793
Whereas the acting Commissioners in the Commission of Bankrupt awarded and issued against Thomas Dawson, of Wych-Street in the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Woollen-Draper, have certified to the Rt. Hon. Alexander Lord Loughborough, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, that the said Thomas Dawson hath in all Things conformed himself according to the Directions of the several Acts of Parliament made concerning Bankrupts ; This is to give Notice, that, by virtue of an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, his Certificate will be allowed and confirmed as the said Act directs, unless Cause be shown to the contrary on or before the 19th Day of November next.

More relating to bankruptcy in 1794 and 1795 ; the later seems to be heading towards discharge and closing.

National Archives;
MS 11936/434/781402 15 October 1805
Contents:
Insured: Thomas Dawson, 1 Wych Street, woollen draper
Other property or occupiers: 16 and 17 Craven Buildings, Drury Lane

London Gazette 1806;
All Persons indebted to the Estate of Mr. Thomas Dawson, deceased, late of No. 1, Wych-Street, Woolen Draper in the Parish of St..Clement-Danes,:in the County of Middlesex, aee requested to pay the same to the Executors, at No. 1, Wych-Street aforesaid:; and all Persons having demands on the said Estate are desired to send in their Accounts forthwith in order that they may be liquidated.

--- Possible Earlier Relatives and coincidences etc.
PowYs drapers in St Clement Danes for a LONG time !

http://www.red1st.com/axholme/getperson.php?personID=I1750042814&tree=Axholme

and

http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps01/ps01_175.html "In 1677 Peter's widow Jane (or Johanna) and her eldest son, Richard, sued a William Powis, linen draper of St Clement Danes in Co. Middx., over board and lodging he had or had not given to her two youngest sons, Peter and Thomas. Some money was alleged to have been deposited with Thomas Rudge, a kinsman to both of them. Since Rudge was the husband of Winifred, sister of Peter Powys dec'd, it looks as if the draper William was Peter's son by his first marriage. Rudge would have been uncle by marriage to all of them."

There was a Thomas Powis jnr, linen draper of The Borough, Southwark who was declared bankrupt in 1810

There is a Shrewsbury (most of the Powys' originally come from Shrops I think) reference to a Thomas Powis, draper 1712-1802

History of Sandbach; "In the same year, by deed dated the 19th August, 1735, the said Thomas Powys, of Shrewsbury, Esq., conveyed to Edward Powys ... of Shrewsbury, draper, and in 1779 Mary Powys, his youngest daughter, was still unmarried…."

In 1817 Jan. 27. "William Powis, aged 10, son of William P., clerk in bank, Wellington Street, Pentonville" was admitted as a scholar to St Paul's School.

There are Powis' in Covent Garden in the 1660's. Father Wm Powis, mother Mary, dau Anne chr Jan 1662.

A different William Powis (b1864) but also in St Clement Danes <http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/e/e/Stephen-Geer-Alicante/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0120.html>

1809 Court Case; THOMAS POWIS . My shop is in Tothill Street, St. Margaret's, Westminster ; I am a linen draper . On the 21st of November, about five o'clock in the evening, the prisoner came into my shop to look at some stockings; I shewed her some; she said she had not money enough for them, she would go and ask her husband for more money …… etc.

1774 fugitives at large ; George Powis, formerly of St. Albans-street in the Parish of St. James Westminster in the County of Middlesex, late of Dunkirk in France, Taylor.



-- Some of the (many) brewery references;
London Gazette; could this be him?;
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership which has for some time past been carried out by us the undersigned, Richard Powis and William Powis, as Brewers, at Greenwich, in the County of Kent, under the firm of Richard and William Powis, was this day dissolved by mutual concent: As witness our hands this. 1st day of August 1817.

Also in National Archives there are numerous references to Richard Powis the elder, Richard Powis, the younger, and William Powis, brewers of Greenwich. Around the early 1800's.
There was a Richard Jnr who died in Seneca Falls, New York, who was born in Greenwich 1779, which would be about right.

William# married Ann# Horlick, daughter of John# Horlick and Hannah Sarah# Gyde, on 22 Aug 1793 in St Giles In The Fields, Holborn, London. (Ann# Horlick was born in 1767, died on 18 Apr 1845 in Ham Butts, Painswick, Glos. and was buried in St.Mary's, Painswick, Glos..)