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Re: DAVIS - Newnham, Gloucestershire
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 26 August 15 17:24 BST (UK) »
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.
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Re: DAVIS - Newnham, Gloucestershire
« Reply #10 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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