Thanks Kate, yes, I think you are right, I need to get Dorothy's bc first as this is looking like the usual beggar's muddle.
Merry - that's interesting, thankyou for trudging through all that! There are Davenports on this side of the tree but not seeing a direct connection yet. I have just thought of a very tenuous connection to Wales which may of course be completely irrelevant. Joseph Grimshaw Holden's eldest son Joseph Foden Holden,(and brother of Pamela and Harry) had a scandalous divorce in about 1934 (oh the shame) and in 1938 he remarried one Edna Bell, a widow whose first husband died in Wales in 1933 and was the son of a Doctor. It still doesn't explain the Bibbys though.
Maggie, that's an interesting find! I do have a hobby tree for Darwen which goes sideways into Clitheroe etc. Off for a look. Thans for the tip off.
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