Can anyone find the family connection?

So did Rev. Edward L Davie's father, James Davies have a sister Mary Davies?

But we don't know who James's parents were.
 
Flook said:
The date of the marriage is right but they were married in St John's Paddington in London. His father is down as James Davies, Gentleman. [Source: Ancestry London Marriages].

One of the witnesses is Charles Gwillim Jones.

What's interesting is the list of names mentioned in a court case Collins v Squance in 1843 (read through all the names and get a nice surprise at the end).

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7923546

There is a similar case in 1845 called Chuck v Appleton. This one is quite confusing as Edward Lutwyche Davies and his wife Ann seem to be listed as both Plaintiffs and Defendants!

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7927240

I can't work out what these cases are all about - Chancery cases? If they're about property they might have family histories in them (although that's only a long-shot guess).
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Did you check these out from Flook. There are quite a few names mentioned but the Rev's wife is listed as Catherine Margaret Anne Davies.
Who was she? He married Ann Hardwick in 1843 not a Catherine Margaret and this case is dated 1843.:confused:
 
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Blimey, this has grown since I went to bed - have now got to inwardly digest it all over again.......:reading:
 
I have a feeling that this will have nothing to do with anything, but my brain is a tad addled and so any Mary Ann Davies seems like a possibility.......
May 30th 1784 - Mary Ann daughter of William and Mary Davies baptised Rhaeadr, Radnorshire.
Have we had a William thrown into the equation yet?
 
Archie's Mum said:
However it says that Catherine is his wife. The action is dated 1843, the same year he and Ann Hardwick married. So as I see this Catherine can't be his daughter.
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Yes, I noticed that anomaly. I started trying to check out some of the people listed in the Chancery cases but there doesn't seem to be a pattern; they come from all over the south of England. I think it must be bound up with property.

Everything seems so complicated and mixed up (at one point I thought I had James Davies and his family pinned down in Surrey). So many people don't seem to appear on censuses; where for example are all the Hardwicks? James and William Hardwick are in Ross-on-Wye in 1841 but where are all the children mentioned in the Chancery cases?

I will carry on looking at all the information that's been dug up - let's just hope someone strikes lucky!
 
If this case or cases is/are dated 1843, Catherine Margaret Ann Davies birth wasn't registered until 1845.
OK got it now. There are amendments. One dated 1845 which is the one Catherine is added to. Therefore an error in that it should read his daughter and not his wife. All sorted. Hope they got what they were all after. It took long enough and so I guess more offspring were added along the way.
 
AnnB said:
I have a feeling that this will have nothing to do with anything, but my brain is a tad addled and so any Mary Ann Davies seems like a possibility.......
May 30th 1784 - Mary Ann daughter of William and Mary Davies baptised Rhaeadr, Radnorshire.
Have we had a William thrown into the equation yet?
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Not yet but knowing you lot it won't be long :D
 
Oh dear, such a twisted lot you have here, thank goodness for the earthy ones on Forum who will find it all out. I used up my usefulnesses elsewhere today & am not up to this.
Dog WILL be shorn shortly.
 
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