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In 1859, 1882 and 1897 there are newspaper reports of a ship wreck on the Lemonower or Lemon-ower Sand.  They don't explain the location, but in some instances survivors were taken to Yarmouth.  Looking online, I wonder whether the area referred to in the census was Leman Bank and Ower Bank, which can be seen on this modern chart, north east of Cromer and Happisburgh:

https://www.harbourguides.com/charts/South-East-Coast

It's a bit of a leap from Lemonow and Ore District, I know.  Perhaps something was lost in translation when the census was completed back in port.  I haven't spotted any other possibilities.

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The report of the trial in the Chester Chronicle on 8 April 1830 includes a few details which might help, though a couple of the dates must be errors:

“HORSE STEALING. – Hugh Hughes, (33) was indicted for stealing a mare, the property of William Prytherick, on the night of the 28th of Sept. out of his stable at Ty-mawr, Llantresaint, Anglesea.
John Owen, examined by Mr. CORBETT. – I was servant to the prosecutor on the 29th Jan.  I saw my master’s horse in the stable on that night ;  the next morning I found the door broken open, and the mare gone.  On the 30th Jan. I found the mare in the possession of Mr. Roberts, special constable of St. Asaph.  The prosecutor is cousin to the prisoner, and the prisoner had been in the prosecutor’s service.
Thomas Roberts, constable of St. Asaph. – I saw the prisoner going through St. Asaph ;  he had two mares with him, – one he was riding, and leading the other.  I followed him, and took him into custody.
William Prytherick. – I saw my mare again on the 1st of Jan. at St. Asaph.  The prisoner never offered me any thing for the mare ;  he has purchased sheep of me, and driven them off sometimes before he paid for them.  I don’t care whether you call the mare a filly or a mare ;  she is four years old.
Cross-examined by Mr. J. JERVIS. – I think she was a filly not a mare.  I have known the prisoner fifteen years, he always bore a good character.
Mr. JOHN JERVIS contended that the case could not go to the jury, as the indictment laid the property stolen as a mare, but the evidence of the prosecutor himself was that he oftener called her a filly than a mare.
The Court thought this was a question solely for the opinion and decision of the jury.  The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The prisoner was then indicted for stealing a mare, the property of Hugh Humphreys, of Bodonolwyn, Anglesea, on the 28th Jan.
John Humphreys. – I am brother of Mr. Hugh Humphreys, the prosecutor. – On the night of the 28th Jan. my brother’s mare was safe in the stable.  I missed her next morning, and went in pursuit of her, and found her in the possession of Mr. Roberts, the constable of St. Asaph.  The mare is four years old next May ;  I never called her a filly, but when she was sucking.  I have known the prisoner for five or six years, and he always bore a good character.
Thomas Roberts. – I apprehended the prisoner in St. Asaph, with two mares in his possession.
Hugh Humphreys. – I lost my mare on the 28th Jan. and saw her at St. Asaph, on the Monday following. 
The prisoner in his defence said he had priced the mare.  This was contradicted by the prosecutor.
The jury found him Guilty.  Sentence – death recorded.
His lordship said, in consequence of the excellent character the prisoner had received, and it being his first offence, application would be made in the proper quarter for some mitigation of his sentence.

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The Thoresby Society has a nice print of it here:

https://www.thoresby.org.uk/content/pictures/retreatarmley.php

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At Rachel's marriage the witnesses were John Jenkin and Ann Jenkins.  There is an 1845 will of John Jenkins of Llanfoist, online at National Library of Wales.  He leaves his estate called the Wern in Llanellen in trust to John Davies for the benefit of his daughters, Ann Jones, Rachel Davies, Elizabeth Evans, Rebecca Pritchard and Theodosia Williams. 

Because Rachel was married and died in Llanfoist but was buried in Llanellen, I think it would be worth further investigation to see whether this might be her family.  It is possible the baptisms were in Llanellen. I have researched a family with connections of this kind in two parishes.

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Was there any connection to Herne Bay in Kent?  There were In Memoriam notices in the Herne Bay Press from 1934 to 1940 with this wording:

"DAVIES. - In loving memory of Captain Arthur Davies, A.I.N.A., late China Navigation Company, Shanghai, China, who died on Sunday, March 5th, 1933.  Dearly loved."

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