Hi Earle
This is all very strange!
I don't see a marriage between an Edward Davies and a Jane. I don't see baptisms for John or Edward. I don't see a burial for an Edward Davies of Black Park/Halton around the time that he should have died of roughly the correct age.
I see that Edward and Jane are living in Black Park on the 1841 (next door to my Cash 4 x grt uncle, I think!) :
HO107/1399 Book 1 Folio 6 Page 4
Davies
Edward, 65, coal miner
Jane, 30
John, 10
all b. County
As you know, the 1841 census didn't show relationships so we don't know that Jane was the wife of Edward and there is a large age difference - approx. 35 years.
I have now found a baptism of a Jane Davies in Chirk on 28 Oct 1810 (born 18th). Her parents are given as Edward Davies and Elizabeth.
If the only evidence of Edward's father being an Edward is from his marriage cert and the 1841, then I have a theory which I don't think we can fully test:
I'm wondering if Edward (aged 65 on the 1841) was the father of Jane and the grandfather of Edward(b.c. 1845)
I have such instances in my line where the person's own name or the grandfather's name was given on marriage certificates.
At the moment, I can't think of any other explanation.
I've tried to find a death record for Edward senior but Chirk isn't on the North Wales BMD for that period and there are 22 deaths for an Edward Davies in the Oswestry registration district in the 1841-1851 period.
I'm thinking about this one
Gadget