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Author: heitch
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Bryan, this is from one of the newspaper archives;
"CHIRK WOMAN DROWNED IN CANAL. A verdict of "Found drowned" was
returned at the inquest at chirk on Mrs Hannah Powell aged 44, of moors lane,St Martins,
whose body was recovered from the Shropshire Union Canal on june 12th. The husband,Mr
Sidney A Powell told Mr Maurice V Evans the east denbighshire coroner,that his wife saw
him off to work as usual on the previous day ,but later she was missing, he was under the
impression that she had gone to Ruabon to see her mother who was seriously ill."
.....so I've assumed that Thomas & Elizabeth were living in Ruabon in their later
years. However, theres no grave in Ruabon, Cefn Mawr, St Martins, Chirk or Llangollen for
any of them...... (sent mother & co looking!!)
Next step I suppose, would be finding Thomas & Elizabeths marriage cert. which would
confirm her maiden name, and state her fathers name, but judging by the amount of Thomas
Hughes' in the area at that time, it's not going to be easy to find.
Helen
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