This post a year ago kind of got resolved to a degree on the Lancashire page but..............
I've just found out that the Thomas Davies from Burghill with a father James Davies who is a Cooper I was researching is NOT the correct Thomas Davis
The Thomas Davies I should be researching is from Holmer and born in 1855 to a James Davies farmer
I think what's thrown me is the Cooper thing, my Thomas Davies is listed on a marriage certificate to a Sarah Tremble in 1876 in St Helens lists his occupation as a Cooper and is listed as such on subsequent census records onwards so you can see where the confusion occurs.
Now, his sons marriage certificate, Thomas Davis, in 1930 lists his father Thomas Davis as a famer, deceased.
I've spent the last few days looking for both Thomas and his father James in Holmer in 1855 and for census records that match and I cant find either of them.
Now, 1855 Thomas appears on my records in 1876 and subsequent census records after this but I cant find him from his birth in 1855 up to the 1871 census, I cant find find anything on father James at all.
There is a lot of info on previous posts which is correct, specifically those from 1881 but I'm struggling for anything prior to his 1876 marriage so any help in tracing him back would be a great help.
