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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Gurley/Baskerville marriage
« on: Friday 16 October 15 15:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I was so interested to find your post.

Sarah Ann Gurley witnessed a marriage in 1810 between Thomas Davis and Mary Perry in Westbury on Trym Gloucestershire England.They are in my family tree

The only one I could ever find was Sarah Ann Baskerville who married Emra Gurley in 1795 in Bristol, Gloucestershire. I have never been able to find any other reference to Emra online or otherwise, and wonder if you know if the forename is correct or a transcription error.

Thomas Davis and Mary Perry moved to Guernsey in the 1820s. Mary died in 1850. Thomas Davis' second marriage was in 1859 to Mary Ann Baskfill in Guernsey...coincidence? or connection?

Would love to hear what else you have found out. Its intriguing.

Val.

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Gloucestershire / Re: DAVIS - Newnham, Gloucestershire
« on: Wednesday 26 August 15 21:10 BST (UK)  »
Hi, You have been very kind to reply twice. I appreciate what you write about Robert Davis. I was hoping for some snippet in a St.James Register. I think someone I know might have a transcript of the deaths register. Will ask her when she returns from Europe.

As for the Wilkins, they are new to me today. There are so many DAVIS families in Bristol that is what has been daunting. I KNOW that the Thomas Davis auctioneer, living and working in Barton Alley, went to Shannon Court Corn Street afterwards. I KNOW that he fled the country with his family in 1822 after a problem. He went to Guernsey where he lived in St.Peter Port as an auctioneer and had in total 19 children with the same wife, Mary PERRY or PARRY. I KNOW that he had a son called Captain Edwin Henry Davis who was lost in a shipwreck off Africa in 1858 . I KNOW  that a memorial card for Edwin was in the possession of my family, which is how I found that Sarah Davis, my ancestor, who married Isaac Reynolds master mariner at St.Michaels Bristol in 1818, was almost certainly sister to Thomas Junior.

I found the names of their parents in Thomas Davis Juniors death record in Guernsey. It was Thomas Davis and Elizabeth Smith. The father was known in Bristol as Thomas Davis Senior. Thomas Davis Junior was made a member of the Bristol Burgesses in 1815 but it was by vote not because of an apprenticeship or because of his father.

So, there are too many Thomas Davises in Bristol at the time Sarah born 1795 and her brother Isaac Davis born 1793 were baptised together at St.Michael's in 1796. Thomas Davis junior doesn't seem to have been baptised in Bristol, and was born in 1787-8. I found a Thomas Davis marrying an Elizabeth Smith in Dorset, Wiltshire and Hereford.It could though have been the West Indies or literally anywhere else.

Just any thoughts that you or other readers might have would be helpful. I have been on this trail a long time.

Thanks again, Val.


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Gloucestershire / Re: DAVIS - Newnham, Gloucestershire
« on: Wednesday 26 August 15 16:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I am researching this family too, because a member of my family, Thomas Davis, auctioneer and earlier in the business of Toy selling, lived and worked in Barton Alley about 1816.

Robert and Mary Davis are in Bristol in the 1841 census with Mary Wilkins age 40, but all say they were not born in County.

Robert died 18 June 1841, found in an old newspaper, and was buried 24 June in St.James Bristol. I don't suppose you have access to that register?

I would be pleased to learn more about the census birthplace discrepancy with your own work.

Thanks, I am trying to locate a Thomas Davis, father of the Thomas on Barton Alley, who married an Elizabeth Smith. Robert was the right age to be his brother, but no luck so far.

Val in Canada.

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