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Interesting stuff on this website:

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/30.html


It has some information there about a Levi Davis or Davies which looks like it is the same Levi as on:

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/family-tree/bcconnections/39480/71587/Benjamin-Hingley-Family


Going on the information there it looks like Levi's mother was a Hingley and he married a Hingley!

He married a second time and this time the name on the marriage certificate is DAVIES and says he was a bachelor.

They have both marriage certificates on this site.

Any theories on this one?

Yes it does look like the same Levi Davis, as the Marriage details match on BCC looked up by RF and the Marriage details on Alan Stainer's tree. Linell.

might be an idea to get that 2nd marriage looked up
if you can post it Tinks we can add it to look up

Second Marriage 7 years later: Levi DAVIES to Sarah Sophia Adams

Registration District Stourbridge
Solemnized at The Parish Church
in the Parish of Kingswinford
in the County of Stafford
When Married 4 July 1851
Name and Surname Levi Davies X
Age full
Condition Bachelor
Rank or Profession Chain-maker
Residence Quarry Bank
Father's Name Joseph Davies
Father's Profession Carter
Name and Surname Sarah Adams
Age full
Condition Spinster
Rank or Profession -
Residence Quarry Bank
Father's Name Henry Adams
Father's Profession Carpenter
Witnesses Rich Bourne, Elizabeth Fellows

On the marriage cert to Nancy Billingham Hingley Levis occ is Trace Maker and his father is a collier
on marriage cert to Sarah Adams Levis occ is Chain Maker and fathers occ is Carter

Is this Levi with parents in 1851
Joseph Davis Head M 55 Carter
Elizabeth Davis Wife M 52
Levi Davis Son Un 28 Chain Maker
Elizabeth Davis Daur 17 Trace Maker
Joseph Davis Son 14 Trace Maker
William Davis Son 12 Trace Maker
Esther Davis 8 Scholar
William Davis Nephew 17 Chain Maker
Sarah Davis Grand Daur 8 Scholar Born Dudley
All others born Rowley Regis

kdw wrote:On the marriage cert to Nancy Billingham Hingley Levis occ is Trace Maker and his father is a collier
on marriage cert to Sarah Adams Levis occ is Chain Maker and fathers occ is Carter

That's what it looks like to me as well - two different Levis. Someone has obviously put in a lot of research and believes they are the same person.

That site also has another brother to Nancy listed - Benjamin b 1826 which is not on the BCC site.

I was actually trying to find some of Nancy's ancestors on her father's side. I'll have to start a new thread with that request.

Tinkerbell wrote:

kdw wrote:On the marriage cert to Nancy Billingham Hingley Levis occ is Trace Maker and his father is a collier
on marriage cert to Sarah Adams Levis occ is Chain Maker and fathers occ is Carter

That's what it looks like to me as well - two different Levis. Someone has obviously put in a lot of research and believes they are the same person.

That site also has another brother to Nancy listed - Benjamin b 1826 which is not on the BCC site.

I was actually trying to find some of Nancy's ancestors on her father's side. I'll have to start a new thread with that request.

There only appears to be the one Levi Davies on the Census A Trace Maker is a type of Chain Maker and Carters were employed at the Collieries to move the Coal around, I don't see any discrepancy there, as NL says you need to get the 2nd Marriage checked. Linell.

There is a death for Nancy Davis:-

Deaths Mar 1845
DAVIS Nancy Dudley 18 271

If that is Levi's wife he could well have Married again, I think you need to order the death certificate tinkerbell.

Linell.

Henry Davis:-

Stourbridge
in the Sub-District of Hales Owen
in the County of Worcester
When and where born 11 January 1854, Cradley
Name Henry
Sex Boy
Name of Father Levi Davies
Name of Mother Sarah Davies, formerly Adams
Profession of Father Chain Maker
Informant Sarah Davies, Mother, Cradley
When Registered 31 January 1854

Is living with Grandparents Eli and Jane Billingham in Back Lane Cradley 1857. From the Vicar's Notes:-

Eli Billingham works at Corngreaves, was New Connexion Methodist and Wife Jane, daughters Janetta 25 and Jemima 14, Grandchildren Elizabeth Davis 6 and Henry Davis 4. HTH Linell.

Tinkerbell wrote:Interesting stuff on this website:

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/30.html


It has some information there about a Levi Davis or Davies which looks like it is the same Levi as on:

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/family-tree/bcconnections/39480/71587/Benjamin-Hingley-Family


Going on the information there it looks like Levi's mother was a Hingley and he married a Hingley!

He married a second time and this time the name on the marriage certificate is DAVIES and says he was a bachelor.

They have both marriage certificates on this site.

Any theories on this one?

If you click on the first link Tinkerbell put and scroll down to the bottom of the page you will see both marriage certificates

might be worth us just checking out that marriage ourselves if someone
can add it I will add it to list.

As Linell says prob the death certif is best thing to get to be certain.

kdw wrote:If you click on the first link Tinkerbell put and scroll down to the bottom of the page you will see both marriage certificates

Yes I have seen the certificates that is why I mentioned them in my original post.

You explained how it was possible about the occupations being similar in another post but I am still wondering about the different surname Davis to Davies. That could be possible too.

Linell pointed out a death for Nancy Davis in Mar 1845 - does this allow Levi to call himself a bachelor on his second marriage certificate?

Tinkerbell, you can't believe anything you find on these old documents, bach or spinster can mean nothing, just how they felt on the day or could be the Registrars take on Levi's Marital Status, as for the spelling of Davis, that again depends on who is filling in the forms, I don't suppose Levi knew how it was spelt, it was left to other's who could read and write to decide on that one, names are spelt different ways all the time, you have to account for that. HTH Linell.

That's what makes it interesting and frustrating as well!!

I will add this for a look at just to see for ourselves what it says

1851
DAVIES Levi ADAMS Sarah Wordsley, Holy Trinity Dudley Register Office 018/003/226

the spelling of surname just varies as Linell says depending how it sounds,
who is recording it etc.
Bach / Wid...lots of errors there

tracemaker/chainmaker same really traces smaller chains

do you want to archive this pending look up?