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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 37360 people with the Powell surname? In that year Powell was ranked number 79 for popularity in the UK. |
Powell records on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Powell family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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Origins and History
New to Family History? Check out our Getting Started page. Check out House Of Names to investigate the origins of the Powell surname or get a copy of the Powell family Crest (a great gift idea!).
DNA
Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Powell ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Powell Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Powell Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Powell family tree.
Search Powell Parish Records at Find My Past.
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| Did you know that there are currently 50556 people with the Powell surname in the UK? Powell is now ranked number 80 for popularity in the UK. |
Powell Family Tree Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 282557 people with the Powell surname in the USA? Powell is ranked number 70 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Powell Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on the Powell family. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Use the Surname Map project to look at the current distribution of the Powell surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.
Some Famous People with the surname of Powell
| Colin Powell |  | Colin Luther Powell (born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. |
| Enoch Powell | | John Enoch Powell, MBE (16 June 1912 ? 8 February 1998) was a British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet. |
| Robert Powell | | Robert Powell (born 1 June, 1944) is an English television and film actor, probably most famous for his title role in "Jesus of Nazareth" and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. |
| Michael Powell | | Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 ? 19 February 1990) was a British film director, born in Bekesbourne, Kent, England who was renowned for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. |
| Frederick York Powell | | Frederick York Powell (4 January 1850 ? 8 May 1904), was an English historian and scholar. |
| Dick Powell | | Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 ? January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss. |
| Anthony Powell | | Anthony Dymoke Powell, CH, CBE (December 21, 1905?March 28, 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work "A Dance to the Music of Time", published between 1951 and 1975. |
| Dilys Powell | | Elizabeth Dilys Powell (20 July 1901 ? 3 June 1995) was a British journalist, author and film critic. |
| John Wesley Powell | | John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 ? September 23, 1902) was a U. |
| Jane Powell | | Jane Powell (born April 1, 1929) is an American singer, dancer and actress. |
| Cozy Powell | | Colin Flooks (December 29, 1947 - April 5, 1998), better known as Cozy Powell, was an English rock drummer who made his name with many major rock bands. |
| Mike Powell | | Michael ("Mike") Anthony Powell (born November 10 1963) is a former American track and field athlete, and the holder of the long jump world record. |
| Eleanor Powell | | Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 ? February 11, 1982) was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing. |
| Cecil Frank Powell | | Cecil Frank Powell (5 December, 1903 ? 9 August, 1969) was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a heavy subatomic particle. |
| Michael Powell | | Michael Kevin Powell (born March 23, 1963) is an American Republican politician. |
| Jody Powell | | Joseph Lester "Jody" Powell, Jr. |
| Walter E. Powell | | Walter Eugene Powell (born April 25 1931) was an American politician of the Republican party who served as a U. |
| Asafa Powell | | Asafa Powell C. |
| Jeff Powell | | Jeffrey Howard Campbell Powell (born May 13, 1976 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian rower. |
| Juliette Powell | | Juliette Powell (born at Manhattan, New York, United States) is a Canadian television host, producer and author. |
| Vavasor Powell | | Vavasor (or Vavasour) Powell (1617 - October 27, 1670), was a Welsh Nonconformist Puritan preacher, evangelist, church leader and writer. |
| Kevin Powell | | Kevin Powell (born April 24, 1966) is an American political activist, poet, writer, entertainer and entrepreneur. |
| Halsey Powell | | Captain Halsey Powell, USN (3 August 1883 ? 24 December 1936) was a United States Navy officer of the first half of the 20th century, who received the Distinguished Service Medal for outstanding performance as a destroyer division commander on convoy duty during World War I. |
| Don Powell | | Don Powell (born Donald George Powell, 10 September 1946, Bilston, Staffordshire, England) is a drummer who founded the English glam rock group, Slade. |
| Lewis Powell | | Lewis Thornton Powell (April 22, 1844 ? July 7, 1865), also known as Lewis Paine or Payne, attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate United States Secretary of State William H. |
| Gwyneth Powell | | Gwyneth Powell (born 15 November 1946 in Levenshulme, Manchester) is an English actress who portrayed the role of Bridget McCluskey in the TV series "Grange Hill" for eleven seasons from 1981-1991. |
| Dina Powell | | Dina Habib Powell (maiden name Habib), born 1973, is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs for the United States government. |
| Jenny Powell | | Jenny Powell (born 8 April 1968, Ilford, England, UK) is a British television presenter. |
| Martin Powell | | Martin Powell (born July 19, 1973 in Sheffield, Yorkshire) is an English musician. |
| Dawn Powell | | Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 ? November 14, 1965) was an American writer of satirical novels and stories. |
| Richard M. Powell | | Richard M. |
| Boog Powell | | John Wesley Powell (born August 17, 1941, in Lakeland, Florida) is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Baltimore Orioles (1961?74), Cleveland Indians (1975?76) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1977). |
| Michael Powell | | Michael "Mikey" Powell (born October 29, 1982) is one of the most decorated lacrosse players in NCAA history. |
| Jesse Powell | | Jesse Powell (September 12, 1971) is a Grammy-nominated American R&B/soul songwriter-singer. |
| Nosher Powell | | Nosher Powell (born Frederick Powell, 15 August 1928 in Camberwell, London, England) is known both as an actor (credited variously as Nosher Powell, Freddie Powell, Frederick Powell or Fred Powell) and as a boxer. |
| Billy Powell | | William Norris "Billy" Powell (June 3, 1952 ? January 28, 2009) was an American musician. |
| Chris Powell | | Christopher George Robin "Chris" Powell (born 8 September 1969) is an English footballer, who has had a long career as a left back, crowned by five caps for the English national team. |
| Josh Powell | | Josh Powell (born January 25, 1983 in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American professional basketball player with the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA. |
| Clifton Powell | | Clifton Powell (born March 16, 1956) is an American actor and comedian. |
| Joe Powell | | Joseph Joshua "Joe" Powell (1870 ? November 29, 1896) was an English footballer who was captain of Woolwich Arsenal in their first season of League football. |
| William Dummer Powell | | William Dummer Powell (November 5 1755 - September 6 1834) was a Loyalist lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada. |
| Nik Powell | | Nik Powell (born c. |
| Mike Powell | | Michael John Powell (born 3 February 1977 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire) is a Welsh cricketer. |
| Noble C. Powell | | Noble C. |
| Lyman Pierson Powell | | Lyman Pierson Powell, D. |
| Frank Powell | | Frank E. |
| Jay Powell | | James Willard "Jay" Powell (born January 9, 1972 in Meridian, Mississippi), is a former American baseball pitcher, who last played for the Atlanta Braves. |
| J. C. Powell | | Dr. |
| Samuel Powell | | "For the Continental Congressman and Mayor of Philadelphia, see Samuel Powel. |
| Mike Powell | | Michael James Powell (born 5 April 1975 in Bolton) is an English cricketer who plays for Warwickshire County Cricket Club. |
| Daryl Powell | | Daryl A. |
| Colin Powell | | Colin David Powell (born July 7, 1948 in Hendon, Middlesex) was a professional footballer. |
| Maud Powell | | Maud Powell (August 22, 1867 ? January 8, 1920) was an American violinist who gained international acclaim for her skill and virtuosity. |
| Walker Powell | | Walker Powell (May 20 1828 ? May 6 1915) was a Canadian businessman, militia officer and political figure. |
| Darryl Powell | | "Not to be confused with English footballer Darren Powell. |
| David Powell | | David Powell (December 17, 1883 in Glasgow, Scotland - April 16, 1925 in New York City, New York) was a Scottish born stage and later film actor of the silent era. |
| Philip Powell | | Blessed Philip Powell (sometimes spelled Philip Powel) (2 February 1594 ? 30 June 1646) was a lawyer who became a Benedictine monk and priest, serving as a missionary in England during the period of recusancy. |
| Wendy Powell | | Wendy Powell is a Texas-based voice actress who primarily works on the properties of FUNimation, she is probably most well-known for her vocal performance as the voice of the Homonculus, Envy on the popular anime series "Fullmetal Alchemist". |
| Jack Powell | | John Joseph Powell (July 9 1874 - October 17 1944) was a Major League Baseball pitcher around the turn of the century. |
| Hosken Powell | | Hosken Powell (b. |
| Annie Powell | | Annie Powell (September 1906 ? 29 August 1986) was a Welsh Communist politician. |
| Specs Powell | | Gordon "Specs" Powell (June 5, 1922 ? September 15, 2007) was a jazz drummer who began in the swing era. |
| Eric Powell | | Eric Branford Powell (born November 16, 1979 in) is an American football defensive end for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League. |
| John Powell | | John Gates Powell (born June 25, 1947) is a former American athlete. |
| Roger Powell | | Roger Powell OBE (17 May 1896 ? 16 October 1990) was an English bookbinder. |
| Esteban Powell | | Esteban Louis Powell (born 1977 in Houston, Texas) is an American actor. |
| Stephen Rolfe Powell | | Stephen Rolfe Powell was born in 1951 in Birmingham, Alabama. |
| Alma Powell | | Alma Vivian Powell (n?e Johnson), born in Birmingham, Alabama, is an African American audiologist and the wife of military and political figure Colin Powell, whom she married on August 25, 1962. |
| Jimmy Powell | | Jimmy Powell (born January 17, 1935) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s, but whose greatest success came on the Senior PGA Tour in the early to mid-1990s. |
| Randy Powell | | Randy Powell is a writer who has penned several books in the young adult literature genre. |
| Joseph Powell | | Joseph Powell (June 23 1828 ? April 24 1904) was a Democratic member of the U. |
| Roger Powell | | Roger Powell Jr. |
| George Powell | | George Powell (11 November 1924 - 1989) was a footballer with QPR. |
| Keith Powell | | Keith Powell is an American television actor who is best known for his role as Toofer on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock". |
| Leven Powell | | Leven Powell, also Levin, (1737 - August 23, 1810) was a United States Representative from Virginia. |
| Susan Powell | | Susan Powell is an American actress, singer, and television personality known for becoming Miss America in 1981. |
| Braxton Powell | | J. |
| Doc Powell | | Doc Powell is an American jazz guitarist and composer. |
| Aubrey Powell | | Aubrey Powell (19 April 1918 ? 27 January 2009) was a Welsh international footballer who played eight official matches for Wales, plus four wartime internationals. |
| Robert Powell | | Robert Powell is a botanical author from Perth, Western Australia who has co-written a number of books with Jane Emberson about the plants and trees of the Swan Coastal Plain and adjacent Darling Scarp. |
| Arthur William Baden Powell | | Dr Arthur William Baden Powell CBE (4 April 1901 - 1 July 1987) was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the twentieth century. |
| Michael Lloyd Powell | | Michael Lloyd Powell (died 7 September 2003), cousin of poet Benjamin Zephaniah, became known after his death in police custody at the age of 38. |
| Felix Powell | | Felix Lloyd Powell (23 May 1878?? 10 February 1942) was a British Staff Sergeant most famous for writing the music for marching song "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile", in 1915. |
| Clifford Ross Powell | | Clifford Ross Powell (July 26, 1893 ? March 30, 1973) was an American Republican Party acting governor of New Jersey from January 3-8, 1935. |
| Alfred H. Powell | | Alfred H. |
| Cuthbert Powell | | Cuthbert Powell (March 4, 1775 - May 8, 1849) was a U. |
| Charlie Powell | | Charlie Powell (born April 4, 1932 in Texas) is a former professional American football player who played defensive lineman for seven seasons for the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders. |
| William Henry Powell | | William Henry Powell (1823 - 1879), was an American artist from Ohio. |
| Herbert B. Powell | | General Herbert Butler Powell (July 13, 1903 - April 3, 1998) was a 4-star U. |
| George Henry Powell | | George Henry Powell (27 April 1880 - 3 December 1951) was a British songwriter who, under the pseudonym George Asaf, wrote the lyrics of the marching song "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile" in 1915. |
| Lisa Powell | | Lisa Carruthers (n?e Powell) (born July 8, 1970 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a former field hockey forward, who was a member of the Australian Women?s Hockey Team, best known as the "Hockeyroos", that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Katrina Powell | | Katrina Maree Powell (born 8 April 1972 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) is a former field hockey player from Australia, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996, for her native country. |
| Jake Powell | | Jacob Powell (July 15 1908 - November 4 1948) born in Silver Spring, Maryland was an outfielder for the Washington Senators (1930, 1934-36 and 1943-45), New York Yankees (1936-40) and Philadelphia Phillies (1945). |
| Matt Powell | | Matthew Powell (born 8 May 1978 in Abergavenny, Wales) is a Welsh rugby union footballer, who played for Worcester Warriors at scrum-half. |
| Charles Berkeley Powell | | Charles Berkeley Powell (August 19 1858 ?) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. |
| Griffith Powell | | Griffith Powell (1561 ? 15 June or 28 June 1620) was a philosopher and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1613 to 1620. |
| Jeanette Powell | | Jeanette Powell (born 4 February 1949) is the Nationals Member for Shepparton in the Victorian Parliament. |
| Renee Powell | | Renee Powell (born in Ohio on 4 May 1946) is an American golfer who played on the U. |
| Gerard Armond Powell | | Gerard Armond Powell - also known as Jerry Powell ? was born September_21 1963 in Scranton, PennsylvaniaJerry Powell offers an unlikely, and for that reason, all the more compelling success story. |
| Ben Powell | | Benjamin Richard "Ben" Powell (born 28 November 1984 in Helensvale, Queensland, Australia)is a former motorcycle speedway rider. |
| William Powell | | William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 ? March 5, 1984) was an American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical portrayals. |
| Barry Powell | | Barry Powell (born 29 January 1954 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire) is an English former footballer. |
| William Dillard Powell | | William Dillard Powell (September 25, 1946 ? March 11, 2005), a 58-year-old white male, was executed by lethal injection at the Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina on March 11, 2005. |
| Lee Powell | | Lee Powell (born Lee Berrian Powell on May 15, 1908 Long Beach, California - died July 30, 1944 Tinian) was a film actor famed for the leading roles in several serials. |
| Kasib Powell | | Kasib Powell (born March 18 1981) is an American professional basketball player. |
| Carlton Powell | | Carlton Eugene Powell, Jr. |
| Edward Powell | | Edward Powell (b. |
| Ken Powell | | Kendall J. |
| Robert Powell | | Robert Powell (b. |
| Rice Powell | | Rice Powell was a Colonel in the Parliamentary army during the First English Civil War. |
| Alonzo Powell | | Alonzo Sidney Powell (born December 12, 1964 in San Francisco, California) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. |
| Paul Powell | | Paul Taylor Powell (Vienna, Illinois January 21, 1902 - Rochester, Minnesota October 10, 1970) served as Illinois Secretary of State from 1965 until his death in 1970. |
| James Powell | | James Powell (born October 22, 1982) was a Welsh cricketer. |
| Richard Powell | | Richard 'Dick' Powell (1864-11 January, 1944) was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Abergavenny and Newport. |
| Julie Powell | | Julie Powell (born 20 April 1973) is an American author known for the book "Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen". |
| Thomas Powell | | Thomas P. |
| John Powell | | Sir John Powell (1632 or 1633 ? 1696) was a Welsh judge, who was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas and of the Court of King's Bench. |
| Jesse Powell | | Jesse Loy Powell (born April 14, 1947 in Matador, Texas) is a former professional American football linebacker in the National Football League. |
| Jim Powell | | Jim Powell is an American radio and television sportscaster, currently employed with Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves after 13 seasons (1996-2008) with the Milwaukee Brewers. |
| Bert Powell | | Herbert Harold "Bert" Powell (1880 ? after 1922) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Chesterfield, Barnsley and Birmingham. |
| Muriel Powell | | Dame Muriel Betty Powell, DBE (1914-1978), was a British nurse, hospital matron, public servant and, briefly, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for the Scottish Home and Health Department (SHHD)Background. |
| Vince Powell | | Vince Powell (6 August 1928 ? 13 July 2009) was a British television writer. |
| Mark Powell | | Mark John Powell (born 4 November, 1980, Northampton) was an English professional cricketer for Northamptonshire in the years between 2000 and 2004. |
| William G. Powell | | William Glasgow Powell (September 8, 1871?May 11, 1955) was an American officer born in at St. |
| Edmund Nathanael Powell | | The Rt Rev Edmund Nathanael Powell, DD was Bishop of Mashonaland from 1908 to 1910. |
| Jack Powell | | John "Jack" Anderson Powell (14 September 1882 - 20 March 1941) was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cardiff and London Welsh. |
| Rob Powell | | Rob Powell is an American football, track and field athlete, and fitness and conditioning coach. |
| Henry "Tank" Powell | | Henry Watson Powell, known as Henry "Tank" Powell (born July 18, 1945), is an insurance agent in Ponchatoula in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, who served as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 73 from 1996 until term-limited in 2008. |
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