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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Topic started by: Josh P on Tuesday 22 December 09 11:23 GMT (UK)
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Rev. Edmund DAVYS (c.1824-1901) was the son of the Right Rev. George DAVYS, Dean of Chichetser, Bishop of Peterborough and first tutor to Queen Victoria, whom she considered "monotonous and soporific"!
Edmund was curate of Uppingham, Rutland; vicar of Peterborough and Leicester; missionary to Hong Kong; and vicar of West Hampstead. He married Elizabeth (c.1834-72) and had two sons:
Rev. George Paul DAVYS (born 1868), rector of Blunham, Bedfordshire. He married Ethel Margaret ARGELS in 1911.
Rev. Edmund Mark DAVYS (born 1870), Master of Netley Court Prep' School, Southampton. He married an American, Harriet Gee HOMER in 1897, with whom he had a son, George Gwynne DAVYS (born 1900).
The album (with original clasp) contains 32 pictures, including an unusual photo of the family servants in Leicester, all of whom are named, and pictures of the boys in Hong Kong. Family tree covering five generations included.
All reasonable offers considered, as album for sale due to straitened circumstances.
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Hello
I am not the family but like to find familes and reunite then with their photos. How much would you like for the album.
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Thank you for your interest, but some years ago the album went to a collector, who is keen to preserve it.
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Hi Josh,
I moved your post yesterday because we have a new member wishing to make contact with you regarding the photo album.
Thank you for the update Josh :)
Regards
Sarah
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Hi Josh
My Grandfather was Gwynne Davys and my Great Grandfather was Edmund Davys
-the boy on the right in the Hong Kong photo
So I would dearly love to see the other photographs in the album
that is now with a collector.
Is there anyway I or you could contact him or her on my behalf if they are still
with the same person.
Best Wishes
Sarah.
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Hello Sarah,
I'll email them and let you know!
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Thank-you So much!
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Sarah, I'm very sorry to say that the email I have for the buyer has bounced twice now. The album sold 7 years ago, so I assume they have changed their address. I do not have their postal address anymore either.
If anything comes to mind, I'll get straight back in touch with you.
Very sorry again, Josh
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This is really sad - most of us would be so happy to have an album like this or, if not the album, scans of the pictures.
If the collector who bought from JoshP obtained it to preserve it then it was in good hands, they just need finding....would a social media campaign work? It would be the sort of hunt the media love.
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Ah,
Thank-you for getting back in touch Josh.
Very disappointing that's happened.
Could you kindly give me the buyers email address
so I could pursue any other avenues.
And was the buyer from the UK?
Thanks.
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Sarah, I have applied to Paypal to see whether they keep old statements as they provide nothing older than 12 months online. I'll let you know their reply.
The album was originally bought from a junk stall in Hailsham, Sussex, in the 1970s by an elderly friend of mine. It was she who asked me to sell it with other items as she was trying to raise extra cash to pay her bills. I posted it on here first just in case there was a family link, kept it for some months, then sold it online to a photographic collector.
I'm now doubting the email address I have in my online address book is for the buyer, so am hoping Paypal will reposed positively. Hope for news soon.
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Hello,
I am researching a family named Pitts who lived in the Peterborough Minster precincts in the mid-19th century. The head of the household, Charles Pitts, was described as a servant and on one occasion, while resident in the precincts as a footman. I suspect Charles may have been employed by a senior cleric in Peterborough, possibly the Bishop himself.
In 1860 or 1861, one of Charles’ daughters moved to Leicester where she married a carpenter named Joseph Kinsey.
I’m intrigued by the possibility that at some point Alice may have been employed as a servant in the household of Edmund Davys and may be one of the servants in the photo mentioned above.
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I know of only one photo of Alice Pitts, a post-mortem image taken in 1889. There are definite similarities between the woman in that photo and the girl, 20-something years younger, standing 2nd left in the photo above.
If anyone has any information about the group photo, I would be grateful to receive it.
Gary