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  Posted by gillypop (U14935730) on Saturday, 26th November 2011

  hi there could somebody please look up the 2 marriages of ethel davis in hertfordshire. i think she was married to a man named tom first, then she was widowed and married a man named stanley. her parents were william and rebecca davis and they lived in tewin thanks

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  Posted by bishenbertie (U13222350) on Saturday, 26th November 2011

  What date range are we looking at for these marriages Gilly?

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  Posted by bishenbertie (U13222350) on Saturday, 26th November 2011

  Have you tried looking on freebmd.org.uk

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  Posted by stanilic (U2347429) on Saturday, 26th November 2011

  Try the Hertfordshire Archives. You can find them at:
  
  www.hertsdirect.org/services/leisculture/heritage1/hals/
  
  I am myself connected to the Davis clan in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire but there are many disparate branches to it.
  
  I also suggest that you look under Davies as well.

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  Posted by gillypop (U14935730) on Saturday, 26th November 2011

  i find that very interesting as i have connections also with beds and bucks loads of different names, my father assures me i have the right spelling i questioned it, his mum was violet davis. wonder if we are connected thanks again

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  Posted by clematised (U3233879) on Saturday, 26th November 2011

  Sometimes the enumerator taking the census changed the spelling or the vicar so dont take it for granted on surname spellings
  
  Hi stan nice to see you on the FT boards, keep an eye on this thread
  
  Edna

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  Posted by stanilic (U2347429) on Saturday, 26th November 2011

  My lot come from Great Gaddesden, Frithsden, Gaddesen Row, Woburn, Bedford and Chenies: some were rich, others were poor. I have picked up on other lines of Davis in that work. The earliest reference I have found on record is in the sixteenth century where a Davis was a tenant of Princess Elizabeth Tudor at Ashridge. I know that line died out but the clan is well spread in the region. The furthest West it seems to go is Pitstone and the furthest East is Baldock. An area connected by the Chiltern Hills.

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  Posted by gillypop (U14935730) on Sunday, 27th November 2011

  yes i did but gave it up nothing came up so i will leave it for the time being thankyou

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  Posted by gillypop (U14935730) on Sunday, 27th November 2011

  hi stan, thats rfunny as all these places are local to me, i live in the chiltern hills area. my grandfather was born in cheddington as were most of his family and he married ethel davis" sister who was born in tewin, amazes me how far they all managed to move around

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  Posted by stanilic (U2347429) on Tuesday, 29th November 2011

  I know Cheddington quite well: they have a local history society to which a friend belongs. I am doing some landscape research to the south and east of there when I get the time.
  
  I know where Tewin is but can't actually place it in my head so it must be in a bit of Hertfordshire I have not gone through that much.
  
  A tip on the research: don't be put off by different spellings. Often the clerk wrote it down wrong and your ancestor/relative may not have been sufficiently literate to catch the spelling. I always check Davis and Davies. My mother-in-law, bless her, used to have an exceptional maiden name which we could not trace further than mid-ninteenth century. We later discovered this was a corruption of a more common name so we eventually got the pattern to fit.
  
  If your branch of the Chiltern Davis has a tradition that the family was once better than it was because of a disputed inheritance then we may be connected.
  
  If this is not the case then any connection goes much further back, possibly even to the Welshman called Dafydd who was the founder of the clan. He had to be in the late medieval period: possibly an archer attached to the Black Prince's garrison at Berkhamsted. Who knows? Good fun though!

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  Posted by gillypop (U14935730) on Wednesday, 30th November 2011

  thankyou my learned friend, my grandmother was the davis, grandfather was a waters from cheddington.tewin is near hatfield herts i can only guess they met when my grandmother moved to digswell and remarried. she was widowed in 1905 when my great grandfather was killed by a horse. disputed inheritance eh? all i want is photos and i cant get them !

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