Ernest Douglas Powell and Emily

Ernest & Emily Marriage Cert	Ernest Death Cert

Ernest Douglas Powell Medal Card - 26th Brigade Royal Field Artillery

Ernest Douglas Powells wife was put into a lunatic asylum because she was epileptic she remained there from 1925 to 1955 when she died aged 59. She gave birth to baby James there. He died at 3 Queens Road and Ernest was staying at 2 Queens Road. Portsmouth History Library have said that Annie and James Matthew Powell were living at No 3 Queens Road at the time. At some point after the baby died Ernest put his two daughters into a boarding school in North London and gave his son Douglas away. After that he disappeared and there has been no trace of him since.