e in 1882.
This is probably his immigration to Canada:
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Name: E.(Mr) POWYS
Year of Record: 1886
Source/Event: Passenger List: Port of Halifax
Comments: Arrived on the 'Peruvian'
Age: 32
Reference: National Archives of Canada: Microfilm Reel No. C-4513 page 6
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I ownder if he had anything to do with an Ernest Aubrey Powys whose son Edmond Ivor Owen was killed in WW1. From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site (www.cwgc.org):
Name: POWYS, EDMOND IVOR OWEN
Initials: E I O
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Private
Regiment: Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Unit Text: 29th Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 19/08/1917
Service No: 790894
Additional information: Son of Ernest Aubrey and Margaret Annie Powys, of 1264, 11th Avenue, New Westminster, British Columbia.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: VIMY MEMORIAL
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Evelyn Archer Powys |
These are the various documents he left behind summarising his researches. They included:
(1) His master tree of all families married by our forebears.
(2) His formal pedigree of the Powyses, in the style of Burke.
(3) His two pages of trees of various descents from medieval royalty, including the Trotters back to the Scottish Stewarts.
(4) His trees of the recent Trotter marriages.