Thought you’d be pleased to know that the Powditch website’s homepage is now completely free of any lines or lined boxes (and I can almost hear your saying “at last” and “thank goodness”).
As soon as I’m able to, I will amend other pages on the site, but I’m now heading upstairs for my lunch, whilst after then I have some plug-plants to repot before tonight’s (forecasted) frost. Then I have to walk the dog, and …………….. (busy li’l ole me!)
Thought I’d better let everyone know that the old Powditch GoogleGroup has now been deleted as has the old Powditch Blogger page, and that all previous posts etc have been transferred onto WordPress (q.v. entries on the Powditch WordPress blog for October 2010 and for September 2008).
Hopefully as and when any new information relating to the Powditch family is discovered or shared with me, I’ll be able to post it on WordPress as it is certainly the quickest way I can get the details ‘out there’, without actually having to update the main www.powditch.plus.com website.
Speaking of the www.powditch.plus.com website, I have at long last (hopefully!) managed to work out how to remove all those nuisance lines/boxes from webpages (thank goodness).
Strangely, although viewing our website on Internet Explorer has never shown those lines, other Browsers such as Mozilla, Opera, and others have (up til now) shown the lines.
The first page you will see where the lines have been removed, is the homepage, but as soon as I’m able to, I will edit each and every of the 967 pages on the www.powditch.plus.com website so that you won’t be troubled by those lines again. As so many pages are involved, the editing is going to take me quite a while to complete, so please do bear with me.
Well, that’s it for now, but as I’m also including links to this WordPress blog on the homepage of the www.powditch.plus.com website, I hope that you’ll click on the link from the latter to read the latest, and maybe add your own news etc.
Are you a member of the Find My Past website, or do you have access (e.g. via a Library) to it?
If you do, then you may be interested to know that on Find My Past’s Australian and New Zealand site, there were (as at 4 August 2011) 117 matches for the Powditch surname, in 50 record sets;
Although I’m not able to provide the exact details of each match here, you should be able to see what I was able to see by clicking on this link (http://www.findmypast.com.au) and then entering the surname of powditch (N.B. it doesn’t matter whether you type the surname in lower or UPPER case) whilst to save time, I have provided a list of what records are available from the latter, and how many matches there were for each record set
Directories and Almanacs Records:
Electoral Rolls and Censuses Records:
Family History and Biography Records:
Cyclopedia of New Zealand v2 Auckland - 2 matches
Government Records Records:
Miscellaneous Records and Reference Records:
Social, Regional and General History Records:
Birth, Marriage and Death Records Records:
Probate, Land and Court Records Records:
Hopefully you’ll find the above to be of interest, and should you know of any other Powditch records from other sources, why not share your knowledge of them here.
Look forward to hearing from you
Welcome to powditch.wordpress.com and to a different slant on information relating to the surname and family of Powditch.
Although you probably already know about - and may have used - my main website www.powditch.plus.com/ it has been increasingly difficult for me to maintain the latter in the manner I would wish, so thanks to my being able to create a Blog on WordPress.com I am now able to provide you with far more informative sources relating to the Powditch family and its history, far quicker than via my website, and all in an easily read format.
Please be part of this new format and join in. Sign up, contribute memories, images, news and more, but most of all - enjoy!
(N.B. The following message originally appeared on the now-defunct GoogleGroup, “Powditch Family History“, where it was included within the “Pages” section. The message was then added (c2010) to ‘Blogger’ http://powditchfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/) although as WordPress is now my Blog of choice, I have re-transferred the same post here).
Do you like the History of the Powditch family website (http://www.powditch.plus.com/), and its associated Google Groups section?
Do you think that more should be added to the site, and if so, what? or do you have any information, photos, or any other details which you would be prepared to share with others on the website?
Please leave your comments, your thoughts, and anything else you want to say, and I’ll get back to you.
(N.B. The following message originally appeared on the now-defunct GoogleGroup, “Powditch Family History“, where it was included within the “Pages” section on 17 October 2009). The message was then added (c2010) to ‘Blogger’ http://powditchfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/) although as WordPress is now my Blog of choice, I have re-transferred the same post here).
The 1519 Will of Thomas Podych
Between 1939 and 1945, The Harleian Society, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, London, published their Series Volumes 91 and 97, being “East Anglian Pedigrees“, edited by Campling, Arthur, FSA, FSG.
Held at the Society of Genealogists’ Library in London, are the handwritten notes of Arthur Campling which he used for his compilation of the East Anglian Pedigrees, although not every name amongst his notes actually made it into the published version.
One of the surnames Campling researched, was that of ‘POWDICH‘ [sic: Powditch], and it is thanks to his notes that I have been able to verify some of my own Powditch research, as well as find references to sources which led to the discovery of other Powditch material.
One Powditch he referred to in his notes, was a Thomas Podych, and from those notes it is obvious that he actually saw and read Thomas Podych’s 1519 Will at some time in the past, for not only did he record when the Will was written and Probate granted, but he also stated (within his handwritten notes) those names mentioned in the Will, which included those of Thomas’ wife and their children.
In J. Venn and J.A. Venn, “Alumni Cantabrigiensis” (Part 1 , From the earliest times to 1751 (4 vols; Cambridge, 1922-1927), under the entry for “Powditch, Thomas”, is entered the following details;-
“Member of Gonville Hall. An Augustinian Canon. S. of Thomas and Agnes of Outwell (or Wiveton) Norfolk. By his father’s Will of 1519-20 He was then under 18. Prior of Heacham, Norfolk 1526. V. of Wiggenhall St.Peter, Norfolk 1528.”
From the above two sources, we are able to see that at some time in the past, the 1519 Will of Thomas Podych [sic. Powditch] had not only been viewed, but that specific details had been extracted (viz; that either the Will had been written on, or Thomas had died on, 22 Aug 1519, and that Probate had been granted 1519 in ‘N.W.A.’ Furthermore, in the Will mention is made of Thomas’ wife’s, Agnes, and of his children, Margaret, Agnes, Cecily, James, Thomas and Robert).
The question now (and it has been a question which has remained unanswered for at least the last 28 years!) is what has happened to that Will, and where is it now?
I have searched for it, others more learned than myself have searched for it, and all depositories consulted to date have not been able to provide the answer as to the Will’s present location.
That the Will appears to be a ‘bridge’ between the Norfolk fenlands around Outwell and Upwell, and the north-eastern coast of the same County in and around Wiveton can be determined from the places mentioned (as seen by those who have [in the past] seen the document), but only actual sight of the Will and discovery of its contents will prove whether it is THE bridge.
Have you seen the Will? Do you know where it is archived? Any help in your providing such details would be very much appreciated.
Thank you
(N.B. The following message originally appeared on the now-defunct GoogleGroup, “Powditch Family History“, where it was included within the “Pages” section on 30 June 2008). The message was then added (c2010) to ‘Blogger’ http://powditchfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/) although as WordPress is now my Blog of choice, I have re-transferred the same post here).
“On 19 June 1823 (just over 185 years ago!) the Parish Register for St George’s Church, Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex (UK) records that a marriage between an Anne WALSH and a William POWDITCH took place after Banns had been called.
The Register was signed by both parties as “Wm. Powditch”, and “Anne Walsh”, and their Witnesses, who also signed the Register, were Fred’k Drennan and George Walsh.
Anne (whose first name has also been recorded at times as ‘Ann’) was born c1799 at Cork, Ireland’, and she, like her sister Eliza (born c1786, also at ‘Cork, Ireland’) were daughters of one John Walsh, ‘Chaplain’, and a ‘Landed Proprietor of Cork, Ireland’.
That one of the Witnesses at Anne’s marriage was a George Walsh would appear to suggest that he might have been her brother?, whilst it is possible that there may have been another sister, who at one time is referred to as being formerly a Mrs Sharpe.
Up til June 2008, the life and whereabouts of John Walsh has proved to be a great mystery, his movements not having been traced, although he is reputed to have been at Jamaica in the early 1800s.
Does anyone have any information about John Walsh, ‘Chaplain and Land Proprietor’, including the name of his wife, and whether they had any more children? Also, where and when did John Walsh die, and did he leave a Will?
Look forward to receiving any information which could help to find the elusive John Walsh”
