Hi, thanks for looking, Agnes Sophia Davies nee Watts has a gravestone in The Baptist Church Wokingham - with nothing but her name on the gravestone. Which makes me feel as though she may have died else where. Thomas certainly didnt return to Canada as he married again in 1870 & appears in the 1871 Census with three of his four children-
Thomas R Davies 45 widower has been crossed out and married inserted by enumerator but no wife shown Draper b Pembrokeshire
Maria Elizabeth 14 b Canada Newmarket
Rebecca Jane 12 ditto
Fanny Weeks Davies 10 b Canada ? Bedford
Annie Soneardon 20 asst draper
Sarah Cornish 20 servant
RG10 Piece 2080 Folio 70 Page 13
Marriage Dec q 1870 Thomas Robert Davies to Julia Curwood. Julia born 5th March 1832 mother: Hannah Howe, Father: Thomas Curwood (their marriage 9th April 1828 Uffcolme.
His fourth child Florence Isabel Howe Davies was born in Ashburton in 1871, she lived with her cousin and was adopted by them & lived in Wokingham. Although something doesent seem right and I cannot put my finger on it! Florence carrys the Howe name which belongs to her stepmother's mother. Also I found Agnes Sophia death in 1864 if thats right one, if it is then she cant be the real mother of the children, and who I believed was her stepmother may be in actually fact be her mother. So Agnes Sophia must of died sometime between 1855 (when she married Thomas Robert Davies) & 1870(when Thomas married again).
If you see on the census the eldest child Maria Elizabeth (who was named after Agnes Sophia's mother Maria Elizabeth Watts nee Weeks) was 14 so she must have been born 1857 in Newmarket Canada, the youngest child carries the middle name of 'Weeks'. The middle child carrys the name Rebecca, that would be named after Agnes Sophia's sister Rebecca.
This doesnt make sense surely the stepmother wouldnt have named her children after the first wives family? Or could Agnes Sophia changed her name? She was only 19 when she married Thomas, did she elope? Hmmm!
Can you see where I am coming from?
Anyhow I am straying from tracking the family on the emigration to Canada, then their return to England sometime between 1855-1870.
Any help will be gratefully received
Regards Trish