Hello everyone,
I've been trying to find more details about Nancy Davis, baptised on 25 August 1733 in Dymock, Gloucestershire. Any complimentary to the below information about her two husbands or any of her four children would be most welcome, as I seem to have hit a dead end on this one.
Nancy Davis, daughter of William and Comfort Davis, married 2 June 1758 (aged 24) John Jones. I have traced three children: Nancy (b.1760), Lancelot (1763) and James (1765). There is a burial of a Lancelot Jones in the Dymock parish registers for 1771: "Lancelot Jones, infant 20 Oct 1771", but I can't find anything further on his sister Nancy or brother James.
John Jones must have died sometime after 1762/3 (birth of his youngest son) because in late 1775 the banns for her marriage to a Henry Webster were published in late December of that year. The marriage took place on 8 January 1776 in Dymock, when Nancy would have been 42. She is a widow, and Henry Webster a bachelor, according to the parish registers available online.
A nice twist to the story is the appearance of a son only six months after the wedding. Francis Webster, son of Henry and Nancy, was baptised on 5 July 1776. Presumably he was born shortly before that date, which in any case would mean 42 year-old Nancy was pregnant when she married her second husband.
I am intrigued to find out more about Nancy, Henry Webster, their son or either of Nancy's two surviving children from her first marriage, if anyone can find anything else on them.
Thank you!
ADDED LATER: It seems the couple went back to Herefordshire, as their son Henry Webster was born in May 1778 in Coddington. Sadly he died a few days later. I cannot find anything further on the Websters nor Nancy's children from her first marriage thereafter.
