Henry Davy/Davey death circa 1852 Australia? (possibly SA, VIC or NSW)

[sparrett]

I don't know...
The minister, or whoever wrote out the whole document, has made the same funny little squiggle between the words Elizabeth and Davey and again between Mary Ann and Davey on the witness line.

Maybe he formed the letter D in that way.

Sue

[juliaanna1701]

SIBELLA 1848
DAVEY, Henry (from Worchester), wife,
DAVEY, 3 children and another born on voyage on July 1st

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/48727628 South Australian Register 19 July 1848
Henry Davey wife three children (one of them a daughter, born at sea on 8th July)

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/158926343 Adelaide Observer, 22 July 1848
Henry Davey wife and three children (one of them, a daughter, born at sea on 8th July)

I am not sure about fares to South Australia, but to me, 'children' indicates that the fare paid was for a child .... I wonder at what age would a lad or lass need to be, to be noted as 'single male' or 'single female'  rather than a child, part of a family if travelling in 1848 from the ports of London or Plymouth.....   

The newspaper cuttings do not give the gender of the two older children.... 

Did our OP's family actually arrive on that voyage



Cheers,  JM

I never saw the worchester part! But then again the sa immigration records for me never seem to work - I must be allergic to their search function. Yes the HENRY DAVEY from Gwennap does appear in that census with ELIZABETH CRAGOE - thanks for pointing that out, at least it can partially narrow down potential parents.

On another note, the minister administering at the marriage between ELIZABETH DAVEY + RICHARD HENRY EDWARDS was a weslyan minister, would that make one of the families potentially a non-conformist baptism/marriage back in cornwall???

[juliaanna1701]

I suppose the question becomes

Do you really need Ancestry membership to do family history research when there's so many free to search live links at the various RChat resources Boards    ? 


Cheers,  JM

I am starting to realize that - especially with the amount of errors I am finding in other people's family trees and the HINTS are really annoying - sometimes they are completely random and have nothing to do with the person I am researching Words of wisdom right there JM

[juliaanna1701]

Let's hope this isn't HENRY DAVEY's death plot...

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Davey burial
11th Dec 1852 Angaston Cemetery South Australia

[juliaanna1701]

And this might be the 1841 census record for the ILLOGAN birth HENRY DAVEY - not living with MARY ANN + should have had two daughters by now -

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Henry Davey
1841 Census of LLogan in Cornwall
age 30-34
born 1807-1811 approx in Redruth Cornwall page 13 H0107 142/25
Charles Davey 70-74
Ann Davey 75 -79
Henry Davey 30-34
All born in Cornwall

[Spike H]

LOL, you're on a roll!
The Local Govt Assoc cemeteries database has that Davey burial as Thomas  DAVEY d 11 Dec 1852 bur 13 Dec 1852. Not that I can find him in the Deaths Database.
http://barossa.dcw.lga.sa.gov.au/page.aspx?u=383&c=9643

[Spike H]

The problem I have with Henry, son of Charles and Ann, is that he's a tailor and he's not going to survive in Aust. Oh wait, he didn't.
I think SA was desperate for miners and I got the impression from reading the news article that that's what the men on the Sibella were selected for.
On the other hand, can't find him in the 51 census.

[cando]

Find A Grave - not your Henry.  Details include Thomas Henry's birth and death registrations.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01h0z/

Record is duplicated
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01h10/

My resource has a different date for the death so either there has been a mistranscription from the burial register or the details in the register are incorrect.  Seen it all before!!

DAVEY Thomas Henry  13 weeks  Status Child  Relative John DAVEY [Father]
23 Dec 1852
Residence Bowden  Death Place (not recorded)  Ade 2/174

The submitter of the information on Find A Grave may have taken the death information from the microfiche.

I doubt you will find Henry's death and if you find it in SA it won't help with the names of his parents as that information is not recorded on SA death certificates until 1992.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=368744.0

If it was my research my next step would be Mary Anne's 1853 marriage certificate. 

Cando

[cando]

I prepared this post earlier and although it is probably not necessary now you may as well have it

http://www.familyhistorysa.info/shipping/passengerlists.html
DAVEY Henry, Mary Ann SMITH, 2 ch, Christiana My (b@sea) arrived in SA 1848-07-16 aboard Sibella from London via Plymouth 48-04-06

And another source of the same information
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~deadsearch/sibella.htm

And another
http://www.southaustralianfamilyhistory.com/shippinglistSibella.htm

http://www.southaustralianfamilyhistory.com/SibellaleavesforAdelaide1848.htm

APRIL 4-5 Today those immigrants who waited patiently at the depots boarded with their trunks and few belongings. Thomas Bunney. Henry Davey, John C. Eddy, Robert Peters, William Thomas, Thomas Warren and their families, along with Martin and his sister Peggy Trebilcock and many more. All hoping for the future in the voyage ahead.

JUNE 22 Conditions are difficult now as the rains are very heavy and the wind it is very squally. Mrs. Davey also heavy in child and finding it very uncomfortable as the ship made little headway in heavy seas. A woman fell down the hatch escaping with only bruises.

JUL 5 Babies everywhere and Henry and his wife Mary Ann Davey awaiting their turn any day now, weather good.

JUL 8 There was a fair wind today, but not as squally as it had been, of which Mrs. Davey was very thankful. When the cry of a little daughter was heard Henry Davey gave a sigh of relief.

JUL 9 Captain read the service and it was a squally afternoon. It was hard to sleep with babies crying as the sound of one cry would start the others. Mary Ann and Henry Davey named their daughter Christiana Mary.

Cando