William Henry Davis
 

Name - William Henry Davis
Date and place of birth Wiltshire (Prob Ogbourne Wiltshire
Names of parents Caroline Greenman & William Davis
Date and place of baptism - 27/4/1856 Ogbourne St George, Wiltshire
Details of each of his or her marriages - Sarah Ann Culley 14/10/1878 Bradford, Yorkshire
Occupation(s) - Plush Batter, grocers assistant, farm servant
Addresses where they lived -
1871 Burbage Wilts
1881 Old independant college, Bradford
1891 52 Beamsley St, Manningham Bradford
Date, place and cause of death ??????? This is the mystery!
Date and place of burial / cremation. ???????
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Memorial inscription - if any

Children

Alice 1879-81
Maud 1881-2
Albert 1882-
Beatrice 1889-91
Sarah 1892-
Between 1891 & 1894 he abandoned the family
parish relief records for North Bierely 1894
Sarah Ann DAVIS 37 2, Walker road, Salthorn 5/- Deserted by husbnd
Albert John DAVIS 12 2, Walker road, Salthorn NB SP NB
Sarah DAVIS 2 2, Walker road, Salthorn NB SP NB
Arthur DAVIS - 2, Walker road, Salthorn NB SP NB

What happened to Sarah Ann after 1894?

An Albert John Davis, 22, married Jessie Dodd in Bradford in 1904.

He gives his father as William Henry Davis, deceased, and one of the witnesses was Sarah Ann's niece Ethel Culley.

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/22...nSearchResults

In 1911 he's living with wife Jessie and their children, and his sister Sarah.

In 1901 his sister Sarah (mistranscribed by Ancestry as Sarah Duve) is living with her uncle and aunt Albert J and Betsey Culley and their daughter Ethel.

So maybe both parents had died by then?

Or mother Sarah had died and William had vanished?

Possible death for Sarah Ann:

Deaths Mar 1895
Davies Sarah Ann / 37 / N.Bierley / 9b 162

There's a matching burial at Holy Trinity, Low Moor, Bradford, but I can't read her address. Something like Oakend Lane.

When Sarah jr married Sidney Butterfield in 1915 she also gave her father as William Henry Davis deceased, plush batter.
Her witnesses were William Culley and her brother Albert John Davis.

Hi, yes Sarah died in 1895, family lore was that Sarah jnr was then shipped off to Canada/America & returned. I've since come to think this is just a tall tale as i have found no evidence to support it. I'm not sure if they knew for sure if William was actually dead or if he was just dead to them after he abandoned them??