Inkberrow

[Pink Frog]

Hi. Thanks for the reply. I think I’m related to you through Thomas Davis and Sarah Ballard, their son Angelo Raphael, their granddaughter Mary Jane, their great granddaughter Nellie and their great great granddaughter Dorothy May(my mother). I’d interested in any information you might like to share on the Davis/Field and Ballard family. I think I’ve managed to get the Davis family up to about 1650 still in Inberrow but would love to compare note.
Thank you very much.

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Angelo Raphael is my 1C4R, he married Fanny Ballard in 1854 Titian Edwin was born in 1858.
I don't have much info on these Davis/Ballard families.

Thomas b 1791 was responsible for many gravestones in St Peter Churchyard in
Inkborrow. The Sundial at St Nicholas Church Dormston is attributed to Thomas Davis of Inkberrow
It is situated high up on the wall to the right of the porch.
A stone vertical South dial is mounted so high on the East end of the church wall that its top is overshadowed by the eaves. Across the bottom of the dial is the inscription, ‘Thomas Davis, Sciagrapher, Inkberrow’. It also shows the date 1841. It shows the hours VI – VI (using IIII and XII) divided into halves.The dial plate is supported by two rectangular stone corbels and topped by a long straight stone lintel. The dial measures 1000mm x 750mm. A mass dial can be seen on the church wall.

I vaguely remember some of the younger Davis family moved to Dudley as stonemasons.

Hope this helps.

Jim

[Pink Frog]

I think that might make you my 3rd cousin. As far as I can tell the Davis family were stonemasons into the 1600’s. Still in inkberrow.Wondering when they 1st came to inkberrow.