Mary Ann Titterton from Ely

[sakura77]

Hi, just to confirm I am not related.  I recently joined Rootschat and was just scrolling through posts!

[luckygirl57]

I think you love this website Sakura77.
I come here whenever I am really stuck on a problem, and people find miraculous stuff for me 

[louisa maud]

Really well done, how did we all miss it

You will enjoy this forum Sakura, always plenty of interesting things pop up with a lots of  friendly helpful people

Happy hunting

LM

[sakura77]

Thank you lucky girl and LM. I have used Rootschat before when my late husband was a member, but it's been a while.

[jonw65]

I don't know exactly when first wife Mary died.

It is another problem. In 1901 in Bexhill, Mary was 24, born London Paddington.
On her marriage to Alfred in June 1899 she said she was 23. Father Jeffrey Davis (deceased), Police Inspector.
Perhaps a clue as to why Alfred was interested in detection.

In 1881 they seem to be the family at the police station in Harefield, Middlesex
Jeffery Davis, 46, Police Inspector
Wife Eliza 43
Two children including a Mary, but she is 10 years older here!
Mary Ann H E Davis, 13, born Paddington Middlesex
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27Z-76GW

[louisa maud]

Mary Ann Hannah Eliza
Born 27/05/1867
Baptised18/08/1867
at St Mary's  Paddington Green
of Jeffrey and Eliza Davis
Occ Police Constable
address Police Station

Paddington Police Station is within minutes of St Mary Paddington Green Church, it is on Edgware Road,

So now we have  date of birth which won't really help as D of B's weren't listed on deaths published online

St Mary Paddington Green was where a lot of my own family were baptised or married


LM

[jonw65]

Well done, LM.
It is beginning to look as though Mary was 10 years older than she said!

1871 census in police cottages in Paddington
piece 7 folio 89 page 53
Jeffery Davis 36 Metrn. Police Sergeant
Eliza Davis 33
Ellen S Davis 9 - I think possibly Ellen Sarah Davis the marriage witness in 1899
Charlotte Davis 5
Mary A Davis 3
Jeffery Davis 11 months
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBD1-9ZJ

[louisa maud]

MARR 08/07/1857
Christ church Marylebone
Jeffrey Davis occ Soldier father David
to
Eliza Monger? father Daniel


1871 Census
Police Cotts Dudley Grove
Jeffrey David 36 Met Police
Eliza 33
Ellen S
Charlotte 5
Mary Ann 3
Jeffrey 11 months

LM

ADDED
Met Police pension statement
Joined 1865
retired 1887 at a pension rate of £78 per annum

[luckygirl57]

I have really filled out this branch of my tree.

thanks to all of you!

I will be chatting with descendants of Joseph Padgett Clark and Mary Ann Titterton tonight and sharing all this with them. Across the planet, from Canada to Australia, distant distant cousins