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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Gloucestershire => Topic started by: purp72 on Sunday 31 July 11 13:24 BST (UK)
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My 3x G grandmother was Louisa Ellen Wilkins, born c. 1819, in Bristol. She married George Savage, who was a victualler, running the Brandy Cask, Bristol and then the Sea Horse, Upper Maudlin Street.
Her mother was Mary Davis (married name Wilkins), born circa 1797, in Newnham, Glos. Her mother was Mary Ann Davis (I do not know her maiden name), born circa 1775 also in Newnham, and her father was Robert Davis, born cira 1770 out of Gloucestershire. Robert Davis and Mary Ann Davis were also victuallers, running the Barrel/Brandy Cask in Barton Alley, Bristol from at least 1830s until 1847. I believe Robert Davis died in approx. 1842, as Mary appears to have taken over the business.
I am looking for any information in relation to the DAVIS family in Newnham, including the maiden name of Mary Ann.
Many thanks.
Purp72
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Have you seen this?
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Mitcheldean/Pigot1830.html
also look here there are 102 DAVIS listed for Newnham. http://www.forest-of-dean.net/
You will need to register though.
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Having done a litte more research, I know believe that my 4x GG was born Mary Bridge in Newnham in 1797 to Mary Ann and William Bridge. William Bridge was a surgeon/apothecary and married Mary Ann, daughter of Charles Jones, in 1797 in Newnham.
There is a marriage of Mary Bridge to Robert Davis in Bedminster in 1804 but I have not been able to find any details of William Bridge's death - presumably between 1797 and 1804. I'm also interested to find out anything further about William Bridge but am struggling with pre-1837 records so any help would be gratefully received.
Many thanks
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I am a member of forest-of-dean.org. Just put in parish register search for baptism of Mary Bridge Newnham 1797, dau of William and Mary Ann Bridge. Nothing comes up.
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Hi
Baptised 27/05/1802, but actually born 20/08/1797 on transcript.
Record_ID: 146227
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OK, what's next. My family was much associated with Newnham, not a big town, still isn't. FoD.org has good parish register database going beyond strict boundaries of FoD.
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Hi,
Good evening.
Source: Bristol & Avon Family History Society (BAFHS) Baptismal, Marriage & Burial Registers Collection & Bristol Records Office - Register 2b, Page 184, Number 1471.
WILKINS, Louisa Ellen, (d/o) William & Mary, baptised 5th April 1820 at St James, Bristol.
Victor
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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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Hi Val,
I'm afraid that I do not have access to the burial register for Robert DAVIS. My records pre-date 1837. It is possible that BAFHS have it recorded on microfiche, and would probably do a lookup for you.
www.bafhs.org.uk
Failing that you'll have ask Bristol Records Office to look it up for you. A digitalised version could possibly be available on A******y.
Victor
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Hi Val,
It suddenly occurred to me that I could do a couple of relevent lookups for William & Mary WILKINS.
Louisa Ellen WILKINS bap. 5th April 1820, at St James, Bristol. Register 2b, Page 184, Number 1471.
William WILKINS, Bachelor, of this parish, m. Mary BRIDGE, Spinster, of this parish, 4th July 1816, at St John, Bedminster, Bristol. Register 3f, Page 162, Number 485.
Hope that helps?
Victor
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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.