Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Birthca Sep 1910, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Death28 Apr 2002, Parkes, NSW, Australia
FatherPercy Henry Eames (ca1879-ca1958)
MotherViolet Elizabeth Corbould (ca1884-1966)
Notes for Martin James Percy Eames
TFPL, 2009: Nothing more can be found of him in FreeBMD, viz up to 1935 in 2009; nor, in 2011, up to 1950.

No entry in the CWGC deaths for WW2.
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Aug 2014, TFPL: He left England for Oz in c.1926[, apparently fleeing from an overbearing alcoholic father}.  I have been contacted by a granddaughter of his.

He married Merle Mobbs in 1936, they had three children and there are some grandchildren.
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Notes for Martin James Percy & Merle (Family)
From the NSW index:

Registration Number 1488/1936
Groom's Family Name EAMES
Groom's Given Name(s) MARTIN JAMES
Bride's Family Name(s) MOBBS
Bride's Given Name(s) MERLE
District PARKES
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From the Marriage record held at Registry Office in NSW, received by me on 1 Nov 2014:

Certificate No: 235
Date: 16th March 1936 (registered on 18th)
Place: Municipality of Parkes, NSW
District: Ashburnham ?handwriting)

                Groom Bride

Name:
Martin James Eames Merle Hobbs
Profession: Share farmer Home duties
Residence: Coobang, Parkes, NSW Parkes, NSW
Status: Bachelor Spinster
Birthplace: Newcastle, England Parkes, NSW
Age: 24 17
Father: Percy Henry Eames William Hobbes
Mother: Violet Corbould Ella Rebecca Melhuish
Father job: Commercial Traveller Labourer

Married at:
St George’s Church, Parkes, NSW

Consent given in writing for the marriage of the Bride by
: William Hobbs and Ella Rebecca Hobbs

Officiant
: Wallace J Conran

Rite
: Church of England

Witnesses:
  J A Barber, E Hobbs
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