Thomas F Davies 1890 - 1944

I had to decide "where was he born" ? 23/5/1890 He could be Thomas Francis born Stepney Jun or Thomas Frederick born Pembroke Jun of 1890 . From the 1911C , decided Thomas Francis, then a bank clerk in St Albans must be he- & had been told there was no connection with Wales

Seemingly no Ancestry tree

1890. Thomas Francis Davies was born 23/5/1890 to David Davies & Sarah Ann Emma Conoley , born Bromley, Poplar! . No baptism on London baptisms, nor for his 3 known siblings, David Conoley Davies 1884 & Marie Agnes Davies 1886 & Catherine Davies 1893-Ancestry . His parents married 1880

1891C . Thomas F Davies , 10 mths, is living Burdett Road, Limehouse, Stepney, with his mother, wife of a master mariner, and elder brother David, 7. His sister, Agnes, 4, is with his maternal grandparents

David Conoley Davies was born Poplar Dec 1883 - he married Constance D Huggins West Ham Sep 1911 but this not in London C of E marriages . He is in 1911C as a bank clerk, visitor in West Ham , b. Poplar . He is living Woodlands Avenue, Wanstead with wife Constance Dorothy Huggins 1920 -1924 & then in Friern Barnet Road, F.B. N 11 1925-1929 - El. regs But none of this gives me his father!!. But Eureka, there is a marriage of Sarah Ann E Conoley to David Davies Poplar Mar 1880 - but not in Ancestry London C of E Marriages

1901C. Thomas Davies, 10, is living 277 Upton Lane West Ham

Marie Agnes Davies was born Poplar Jun 1886 . (There is a C of E marriage Islington 1912 of a Marie, but she claims to be born 1890 ( & have found her in Islington in 1911C) & her father, John Davies, is a jeweller)

1911C. Thomas Francis Davies, 20, is living 20 Ramsbury Road St Albans

Family lore says he was gassed in WW1 -Looked for his medal card but he could be any one of up to 14 there!

1915.Thomas F Davies married Esther B Massey St Albans 1915.

1918. Barbara Mary Massey Davies was born to Thomas and Esther on 26/10/1918 Christchurch Dec 1918

1920. His wife Esther B Davies died Hendon Jun 1920

1922. Thomas F Davies marries Annie Hughes Hendon Mar 1922. Not on London C of E Marriages- they likely married in a Register Office

He seems to have been known as Jack

1922. Jack and Annie Davies sailed from Liverpool to New York on 18/3/1922 : they named his mother, Mrs S Davies, of Corsuk, Stanley Avenue, Alpenton Park, Wembley as their next of kin

4 further children: Peter, Michael, Ian, and Elizabeth. Their mother "Mops"was a Glaswegian. "My grandfather, Thomas F Davies, was for a long period involved in banking in West Africa- this presumably sometime in the period 1926-1934" from the births of his 4 children . This turns out to be untrue!! - he apparently worked for Westminster Bank in Tenerife for a period in the 1930s, and maybe also in Gibralter

So did his new wife refuse to look after Barbara? Yes in effect, though relationship was surprisingly cordial. Probably started like this when they went (apart from my mother) to West Africa. I - Chris- suspect the truth was that Barbara was stable being looked after by her grandmother, Sarah, and Aunt Catherine/Kukky from 1920-1922 and that there was no reason to uproot her . My mother was quite close to her brothers and sisters, especially Michael and Liz. Peter lived in the Yukon and British Columbia.1924. Sarah Davies, 65, widow, and 5 year old Barbara Davies, sail to Tangier on the Naldera to visit "Jack " and his second family in Gibralter on 25/7/1924

1923. He arrived on 23/5/1923 at Southampton from New York with Annie Calder Davies. Their residence 'Boscobel, Brampton Road, St Albans' 1929. Aged 39, he arrived Plymouth on 24/6/1929 from Teneriffe. His country of last permanent residence was the Canaries, and his future residence was 'other parts of the British Empire'

1923. He, bank manager, address Westcliff on Sea, travelled from London to Gibralter, this his future permanent residence, on 24/8/1923

1924 He travelled from London to Gibralter on 12/12/1924 .

1929. He, bank inspector, travelled from London to Las Palmas 17/9/1929.

1930. Thomas F Davies embarked Bathurst , ( present day Banjul, Gambia) arrived Liverpool 16/8/1930, travelling 1st Class, Profession Banking from the W C of Africa , address Beechwood Road Sanderstead, Surrey

And Michael C Davies born 1925 Rochford;

Richard Ian Davies born Cardiganshire 1926;

Elizabeth Davies born Croydon 1934

1939 Register. Thomas F Davies, born 23/5/1890, representative , Annie C and her schoolteacher  Glaswegian mother, Agnes P Hughes, with them, living Mayfield Road Coulsdon . They have a Michael C Davies born Rochford Essex 1925 & also a Richard I Davies born Cardiganshire 1926, and 2 other children under 21, records closed ( in fact the records for all 4 children should be closed!)  

1944. Thomas F Davies, 54, of 8 Mayfield Road, Sanderstead,   dies on 24/7/1944 Croydon Sep 1944. Probate of £8466, executrix his widow

Going back to the 1911C for his second wife- here called Nan C - and second mother in law gives us

1911C. West Ham

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