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Great Pool Hall


1619: This is when the house appears to have been built; this date with the letters I. P., for John Powell, is punched on the knocker of the back door, as well as cast in a leaden hopper under the roof, and in the hall it is in large figures in the plaster ceiling.
Deeds:
1561: Thomas ap John alias Taylor sold to Thomas ap Rice Howell.
1600: John ap Rees Powell Grono settled land and a water-mill on his son and heir-apparent Richard John ap Rees.
1603: Mary Powell, widow of John Powell, son of John Powell Llewellin, settled on their son William Powell all those lands purchased by John Powell from John Rees ap Howell Grono.
1661: John Powell sold to Thomas Morgan, William Jones and Richard John Powell.
Bradney
John Powell, the builder of Pool Hall was an uncle of Thomas Powell, who appears in Blome's List of Gentry, 1673. He was the father of William Powell. His son, James, had a daughter Ann, who died without issue, c. 1787, and left the estate to the family of a cousin, Rachel Turton. She, or her son Zouch Turton, sold Pool Hall towards the end of the eighteenth century to Richard Lee of Clytha. It passed to his daughter Mary, wife of John Jones. With the Great House in Llangattock Lingoed and other property it was settled on Mr. Jones' daughters as their marriage portions. The property was sold about the year 1840 to Colonel Vaughan of Courtfield, who left it to his younger son Reginald Vaughan. Colonel Vaughan resided at Pool Hall from 1847 to 1851.
William Powell's brother-in-law, John Tate, lived at Pool Hall until his and William's deaths in 1718, when the estate and manor were let to Samuel Watkins. His eldest son, James, moved on marriage to Wern-y-cwm, but the younger brother, John, is described in his will (1780) as 'of Pool Hall'.
Wills
1772: Samuel Watkins of Pool-hall, gent.
1779: John Watkins of Pool Hall, gent.
Memorials
1773: Samuel Watkins of Pool-hall, gent. died 7 Feb., aged 73.
1781: Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Watkins, died 28 Feb., aged 73.
1801: William Watkins died 23 Apr., aged 53.

Parish tithe survey 1843
George Jones was the occupier of 193 acres owned by Mrs Mary Jones. 

Census

1841 Great Pool Hall
George Jones 
Catherine Jones 
Ann Jones 
Kate Jones 
James Jones 
Caroline Jones 
Sarah Jones 
Eliza Leeks 
John Embry


45
30
7
5
3
1
15
15
20
Farmer





Female servant 
Female servant 
Male servant
Monmouthshire 
Monmouthshire 
Monmouthshire 
Monmouthshire 
Monmouthshire 
Monmouthshire 
Not Monmouthshire 
Monmouthshire 
Not Monmouthshire

1851
Mary James 
William James 
Robert Folly
Head 
Son 
Visitor
Wid 
Unm 
Mar
56
17
40
Housekeeper 
Scholar
Kings Caple, Herefordshire 
Goodrich, Herefordshire 
Goodrich, Herefordshire

1861
MISSING



 

1871
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1881 Great Poolhall
Sarah Johnson 
Elizabeth Johnson 
Robert Johnson 
David Johnson 
Walter Johnson 
Edith Johnson 
Edgar Johnson 
George A. Johnson 
Tom A. Johnson 
Joe Williams 
Job Saunders 
Mary Morgan
Head 
Dau 
Son 
Son 
Son 
Dau 
Son 
Son 
Son 
Serv 
Serv 
Serv
Wid 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm
54
31
25
23
21
15
13
10
9
22
27
15
Farmer 350 acres 
Farmer's daughter 
Farmer's son 
Farmer's son 
Farmer's son 
Farmer's daughter 
Farmer's son 
Farmer's son 
Scholar 
Farm servant 
Farm servant 
General servant
Clodock, Herefordshire 
Llantilio Crossenny 
Llangattock Lingoed 
Llangattock Lingoed 
Llangattock Lingoed 
Llangattock Lingoed 
Llangattock Lingoed 
Llangattock Lingoed 
Llangattock Lingoed 
Hereford 
Llangattock Lingoed 
Lanfoist

1891 Great Pool Farm
Elizabeth Johnson 
Edith Johnson 
Tom Johnson 
Edwin Nelson 
George Woods 
Emily Prosser
Head 
Sister 
Brother 
Serv 
Serv 
Serv
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm
40
24
19
60
12
14
Assisting farmer (employer)

Garden assistant 
Farm servant 
Farm servant 
Servant domestic
Llandeilo 
Llangattock Lingoed 
Llangattock Lingoed 
London 
Llangattock Lingoed 
Blaenavon

1901 Pool Hall Farm
Walter Johnson 
Olive Johnson 
Gladys Johnson 
Edwin W. Cole 
Mary J. Leaf 
John C. Phillips 
Edwin Pritchard 
John Owen
Head 
Wife 
Niece 
Visitor 
Serv 
Serv 
Serv 
Serv
Mar 
Mar 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm 
Unm
40
37
8
32
20
45
14
32
Farmer (employer)


Draper

Cowman 
Agricultural labourer 
Agricultural labourer
Llanvetherine 
Diptford, Devon 
Llanfihangel 
Grosmont 
Llangattock 
Llanddewi Rhydderch 
Llantilio Crossenny 
Oldbury, Shropshire

Last updated January 2005