Sarah Ann Powell

  Notes:

Got her precise birthdate from Family Bible info from Rosemary Elmes.

1871 Census; Age 5; Living at Llanveynoe, Herefordshire with parents and siblings.

1881 Census; Age 15. Visitor of Williams family at Great House Farm, Whitchurch, Llandaff, Cardiff Union, Glamorgan. Father and brother Arthur were also visitors. Brother James was working on this farm in 1881 and is listed as Farm Servant on the census.

Can't find wedding on ancestry, however parents living with her after her marriage, so definately her.
Marriage date from Rosemary Elmes.

1891 Census (age 25); Lliving in Llangyniew, Montgomeryshire (aged 25) with children and father and mother. Husband must have been working away on census night. House name given but unreadable

1901 Census; Living (aged 35) at Norton Cottages, Wroxeter, Shropshire with husband, children and father.

1911 Census (transcript); Living (aged 46, married 28 yrs) at Wrentnall, Shrops (Church Pulverbatch Parish) with husband, brother in law and 6 children. PoB Llanveynoe, Hereford. From Thomas jnrs War Memorial entry we see this is "Wrentnall Farm, Pontesford" ; info from Rosemary Elmes confirms this as the farm they were at after Norton and before Lea Hall.

More info from Rosemary Elmes; the extended family lived together at Lea Hall, Lea Cross near Shrewsbury. Eventually Sarah Ann went to live with her daughter, Rosabella Morgan at The Crescent, Radbrook, Shrewsbury. She was buried at Pontesbury near Shrewsbury (no stone known).

Sarah married Thomas Evans, son of David Evans and Sarah, in Jan 1883. (Thomas Evans was born on 2 Feb 1857 in Llangyniew, Montgomeryshire, Wales and was buried in Pontesbury, Salop.)