[Ancestor] Powers

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Husband [Ancestor] Powers

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1 M Esley Powers ¹

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           Born:  - O'Hara Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Spouse: Jane Nixon (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Powers

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The family name of Powers, often spelled Power, Poore and Poure, is from the old Norman name Le Poer, and is as old in England as the time of William the Conqueror, one of whose officers bore that name at the battle of Hastings, as appears on the Roll of Battle Abbey. From that time onward the name appears to hold an honorable place in English history. A curious incident is related in the Herald's College of Richard Poer, high sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1187: "He was killed while defending the Lord's Day." In the "Doomsday of St. Paul," a book published by the Camden Society of London, the names of Walter and William Poer (Power) appear a number of times among those possessed of landed rights in 1222. In Farmer's "Genealogy of New England," he refers to a John Power, of Charlestown, who had a son Peter, born in 1643. About that time Nicholas Power appeared in Massachusetts, but made a permanent home in Rhode Island; for several generations one son was born, the last dying without issue, and the name in that line became extinct. The name of Walter Power appears in Middlesex county, Massachusetts, records in 1654, as a boy fourteen years of age, and he was married on "Ye eleventh day of ye first month, 1660, to Trial, born February 10, 1641, daughter of Deacon Ralph and Thankes Sheppard, at Malden, Massachusetts." ¹

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 376.