Mary Anne HODGSON

NOTE: She is found in the 1861 census living with her son WilliamStedman Gillett at Harefield, South Stoneham. Shewas recordedas 80 years old(correct), a fund holder and born at Middlesex,St James.It looks verystrongly as if the Maria Ann Gillett, who was awitness to her son's wedding, was her.At her death, which was of old age, the informant was RobertPowlesland, present at the death and of the same address of 15OxfordSq, Paddington.

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1 AUTH Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe

1 PERI Powys-Lybbe genealogy

1 TEXT researches. They included:

1 TEXT (1) His master tree of all families married by our forebears.

1 TEXT (2) His formal pedigree of the Powyses, in the style of Burke.

1 TEXT (3) His two pages of trees of various descents from medieval

1 TEXT royalty, including the Trotters back to the Scottish Stewarts.

1 TEXT (4) His trees of the recent Trotter marriages.

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1 TEXT Remarkably most of this has proved to be confirmed by publicly

1 TEXT available documents and some of it is a remarkable set of

1 TEXT findings. One or two errors have appeared, mainly where he got

1 TEXT the wrong wife as the ancestor. Perhaps only 20% of this

1 TEXT remains to be checked, principally the families married into by

1 TEXT the Trotters in the 18th and 19th centuries.

1 TEXT

1 TEXT However his besetting and frustrating fault is his almost

1 TEXT invariable omission of sources and similarly of dates.

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1 TEXT I suspect he relied heavily on Burke's Extinct Peerage, judging

1 TEXT by the heavily thumbed copy in APL's possession in 1999. But

1 TEXT there is also evidence that went to various libraries and paid

1 TEXT handsomely for primary documentary evidence of some 16th and

1 TEXT 17th century families.

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1 TEXT Nevertheless most of my work has been to extend and verify his

1 TEXT enormous efforts. He really was a serious genealogist (like

1 TEXT Martin but who follows the stricter regime of the last quarter

1 TEXT of the 20th century) and I have considerable admiration for what

1 TEXT he found out.

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