Powell, Edward (1823-1902)
Edward was born in 1823 at St Martins, Shropshire.
Edward became a Congregational Minister in Glamorgan, Wales after he left the Primitive Methodist Church.
Family
Edward married Martha Bower Smith (1831-1877) in the spring of 1852 at Lambeth, London. Census records identify nine children.
- Frances Sarah (b1854) – a music teacher
- Edward Albert (1856) – a commercial traveller
- Frederick Augustus (1859-1928) – a PM Minister until 1888, then a commercial traveller
- Alfred Ernest (1861-1943) – a clerk
- Sidney Herbert (b1863) – a musical instrument seller
- Edith Flora (b1866)
- Elizabeth Annie Eleanor (1870- 1928) – commercial clerk
- Frank Collyer (b1873)
- David Livingstone (1874-1939) – a house painter
Edward died on 24 August 1902 at Llwynypia, Glamorgan.
Circuits
- 1846 Ramsgate
- 1847 Baldock
- 1849 Croydon
- 1852 Hertford
- 1853 Baldock
- 1854 St Austell
- 1858 Penzance
- 1861 Frome
- 1865 St Ives
- 1867 Tredegar
- 1871 Swansea
- 1874 Pontypridd
- 1881 Kingswood
- 1884 Chippenham
- 1886 Buriton
- 1887 disappears
References
Primitive Methodist Magazine 1874 (portrait); 1878/694 (Martha)
J Petty, The History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, 1880, p464. P514
W Leary,Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits , 1990
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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