Which Victoria Road?

[Mamsoth]

I'm trying to trace my great grand father Samuel William Davies. My grandfather never knew much about him and has himself now passed away. I have only been able to find two instances of his being mentioned, once on my grandfathers marriage certificate and once on his birth certificate.

The birth of my grandfather (Samuels son) is registered in Birkenhead. His address is given as 3 Victoria Road.

I have found 5 Victoria Roads spread throughout Liverpool and two in Birkenhead (one has now been renamed to Victoria Mount).

The only "leads" I have are that a family of Davies' owned the Railway Hotel (in Victoria Road, Wallasey) around 1860, to my knowledge, none of the male children had heirs. The second is that a Mr Edward Davies lived at 3 Victoria Road in west Derby (around 5 miles east of birkenhead) in 1870.

Here is the scant information I have...

***Edit:Any ideas about how I could trace Samuels Parents?***

[ScouseBoy]

West Derby is the other side of the river Mersey,    Birkenhead is in Cheshire.

[Raybistre]

Hi
The Birth Certificate is issued for sub-district of Birkenhead in County Borough of Birkenhead so you are looking at one of your Victoria Roads in Birkenhead. One Victoria Road runs from Church Road to Borough Road, no 3 is the second property on the left coming from Church Road, a cream painted semi on street view. The property on Victoria Mount is more up-market than than Victoria Road.
Ray

[Mamsoth]

Hi Ray, very informative thanks very much for the help.

[stanmapstone]

You can see the house on Google Street View at https://goo.gl/maps/4dZfZtVK2hP2

Stan

[Blue70]

Not sure. Kelly's Directory 1938 has a Victoria Road in Higher Tranmere and Higher Bebington. The Higher Tranmere one is the one on the view posted by Stan. The Higher Bebington one though has a motor driver at number 4 and 7 and a motor bus conductor at number 6. Neither address has a Davies family at number 3.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3546227,-3.0267581,3a,75y,99.98h,84.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQHebtkTIahEL0biddYRM8w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


Blue

 

[Blue70]

The only Samuel Davies and Dorothy Phillips marriage I can find is in West Bromwich registration district in Q2 1930. Any links to that area?


Blue

[Mamsoth]

Hi Blue, thanks for the input so far.  I have seen the wedding certificate your referring to and would think that it must be right.

 That marriage would have taken place 2 years after my grandfather was born. I have never been 100% sure though, I've had it happen to me too often that I'm 99.9% sure of a record, only to discover it was just an enormous coincidence.

Also, if it is the right people, I have even less of an idea why west brom? His family, her family, work related? I find myself more stuck than when I started 



 

[sarah]

I have just moved your post to the Cheshire board.