Penfold One Name Study
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| Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD | Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD | Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD, Ida and Ted Powell | Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD, Charles Edward Powell Penfold-01 | ||||
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| Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD, Charles Edward Powell Penfold-02 | Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD, Charles Edward Powell Penfold-03 | Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD, Charles Edward Powell Penfold-04 | Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD, Charles Edward Powell Penfold-05 | ||||
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| Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD, Charles Edward Powell Penfold-06 | Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD, Charles Edward Powell Penfold-medals | Spouse: Ida Mavel BURSILL, Ida Bursill | ||||
1. Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD 1 [135], son of Charles R PENFOLD (1865-1917) [126] and Mary Anna TUCKER (1860?-1945) [2716], was born on 4 September 1897 in 48 Hugon Road, Fulham. He appeared in the census on 31 March 1901 in Fulham. 2 The address was: 48 Hugon Rd. He appeared in the census on 2 April 1911 in Fulham. 3 The address was: 68 Perrymead Street Fulham S W. He married Ida Mavel BURSILL [2612] on 20 April 1932. He died on 5 October 1970 in Perth, Western Australia.
It is said that he enlisted in the first World War underage and afterwards he was a merchant navy seaman. He moved to the USA in approximately 1925 and ismentioned as living in New York. Here he spent time in prison for bootlegging. He jumped ship in Australia and changed his name to Ted Powell. He worked as a miner.
CHARLES EDWARD Some seven relatives have left me with impressions of the young Ted. If asked to convey in a few words their gist, I would say ‘a highly principled, and often loveable, scallywag.’ He seems to be the most rebellious of the children. There is the occasion, during one of his fathers ‘ Sunday afternoon family readings (from one of the Socialist periodicals- perhaps ‘Tribune’) when Ted started talking. His Dad said sh, Shush and Ted replied ‘Stop playing trains with yourself.....’
He brought home an ‘unfortunate’ woman, ensconced her in the cellar and fed her for several days, before his mother discovered her.
My Dad, Doug, recalled being at a large family gathering at the Penfold house, which was about to break up late in the evening. His sympathetic eye saw, when Ted came in from a night out with the lads, that he had a heavy skinful on board, but that he conducted himself with meticulous dignity, saying that he was tired and would like to go up to bed. At that time candlelight was needed to get upstairs. He was handed a candle and carefully took matches from his pocket to light it. Unfortunately it was already lit......
His young brother Bill, gave several illustrations of his principled behaviour, one being the discovery of his illicit still in U.S.A, and how it was unthinkable that Ted would have given the Prohibition cops the bribe they were expecting and so went to jail. It seems from accounts from Bill and my mother (Jo) that he was a terrible tease, and sometimes a bit of a bully. Bill was of weaker physique than Ted, but of iron will, and issued an ultimatum that Ted ignored. Hence the bloody crowning with a soup ladle. My mother said he could be a bit of a bully: ‘get to the library Jo!’ etc. but they had a great affinity, not least in the novels they preferred, although Ted was more hooked than Jo on Jack London. As I recall, they both ‘knew their Dickens’. My mother was very distressed when Ted’s letters ceased, but already had a premonition that he had inherited his fathers’ heart weakness. (Transcription of Letters from Peter Reich by Julie Hughes-Owen, December 2000).
“Ted” was born on September 4th 1897 in Fulham. It is said he was a merchant navy seaman. He moved to the USA approximately 1925 and mentioned to be living in New York. He mentioned that he carried a “squirt”, a concealed handgun and spent time in prison for bootlegging. When things got too hot there he signed up on a ship which came to Australia. After an incident that led to the death of a cook, he jumped ship and changed his name to Ted Powell. He obtained a job in the Marble Bar area digging wells on stations and prospecting, or working on the local gold mines until he got a job in Wiluna on the gold mine there.
It is here that he met Ida Bursill.
(Notes of Julie Huges-Owen)
Bill Powell comments on his father are “My memories of Dad were that he was a good looking man, about five foot eight or nine, had a good physique and was a hard worker. He was also a hard drinker who loved to bet on anything that ran, galloped or trotted. It was apparent that he had a very good education and could hold his own with any one on almost any subject being discussed, much to peoples' surprise at times. One of these being the local clergy. He would have them at ease and lulled into a false sense of security with a cuppa in hand and in a comfortable chair before he commenced to question them on their religion and shoot their views and theories down in flames. We usually only got one visit from these people. Throughout life he gave the impression he was afraid of nobody and acted accordingly.”
Ted died October 5th 1970, aged 73 years.
Ida Mavel BURSILL [2612] was born on 2 June 1914 in Trafalga, Western Australia. She died on 3 December 1990. She and Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD had the following children:
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| Edward John POWELL, Edward John Powell | ||
2. Edward John POWELL [2613], son of Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD [135] and Ida Mavel BURSILL [2612], was born on 24 August 1932 in Wiluna, Western Australia. He died on 25 November 1941.
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| Peter POWELL, Peter Powell | Peter POWELL, Peter and Olive Powell | |||
3. Peter POWELL [2614], son of Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD [135] and Ida Mavel BURSILL [2612], was born on 4 February 1934 in Wiluna. He died on 20 May 1985.
Peter started working in the mining industry in 1951 as a Survey Chainman and Underground Miner with Great Western Consolidated (later a subsidiary company of Western Mining Corporation) at Bullfinch. From 1951 to 1967, he combined part time study at the Western Australian School Of Mines in Kalgoorlie, while working in a variety of positions at Bullfinch, Norseman and then Kalgoorlie.
During this time Peter completed his Underground Supervisors Certificate, Mine Managers Certificate and 1st Class Mine Managers Certificate. In 1967, he qualified with a Diploma of Mining and from 1968 to 1971 was Production Superintendent and Production Manager at Mount Charlotte and Fimiston for Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie( Aust) Ltd. In 1971 Peter joined Western Mineral Sands Pty Ltd (which became Westralian Sands Ltd) as Production Superintendent and acted as Manager of this operation from 1973 to 1975. In 1977 he was made Operations Manager of Westralian Sands, a position he held until he died on the 20th May 1985 from an aneurysm to the brain. A mineral sands concentrator was named in his honour (Powell Concentrator).
(Notes by Julie Hughes-Owen).
Sources
| 1 | "Tree001:W024-Medals". |
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| Source: Tree001:W024-Medals, Tree001-W024-Medals | |
| 2 | "Census 1901 Fulham RG 13 67 Folio 171/172 Page 38/39 (Charles R Penfold Head)". |
| Text From Source: Information from Census images on Ancestry.co.uk (Subscription) | |
| Assessment: Secondary evidence. |
| 3 | "Census 1911 Fulham RG14PN355 RG78PN11 RD3 SD5 ED18 SN341" (RG14PN355 RG78PN11 RD3 SD5 ED18 SN341). |
| Text From Source: Name-Related-Cond-Age-Occupation-Birth Place
Charles R PENFOLD-Head-Mar-46-Civil Service - Post Office-Hartfield, Sussex Mary Anna PENFOLD-Wife-Mar-51--Burliscombe, Devon Thomas Edwin PENFOLD-Son-Unm-23-Civil Service - Post Office-9 Grove Cottages, Manor Street, Chelsea Rosalie Mary PENFOLD-Dau-Unm-21-Elementary Teacher - Surrey County Council-Chelsea Mary A PENFOLD-Dau-Unm-19-Bodice Assistant - Dressmaking-East Grinstead, Sussex Josephine Grace PENFOLD-Dau-Unm-17--4 New England Road, Haywards Heath, Sussex Charles Edward Powell PENFOLD-Son-Unm-13-Scholar-48 Hugon Road, Fulham William Robert PENFOLD-Son-Unm-11-Scholar-4th Qtr, Fulham 1a 322 | |
| RG14PN355 RG78PN11 RD3 SD5 ED18 SN341. Cit. Date: 2 April 1911. |
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| Source: Census 1911 Fulham RG14PN355 RG78PN11 RD3 SD5 ED18 SN341, Tree001-W008-1911Census-RG14-00-3-55-00355_0681_03 | |