The Start of the Research

Starting with what is known and hopefully moving onto new discoveries.

Some families are difficult to research because there are so few of them and fewer records, Davies family research is the opposite, information overload.

To start with I do not expect to get to far back in time with branch, the oral family history is the Arthur Victor was the son or grandson of an itinerant tinker who traveled around the great houses of N.Wales - tinkering. He formed a relationship with one of the maids in one house and eventually they married and she traveled with him until they started a family. She made him settle down in either Wrexham or Manchester or even somewhere in between.

Arthur Victor Davieswas married in Wrexham to Gertrude Florence Jones ( oh no a Jones, all I need now is a Williams and I have the full set!) The had 2 children Arthur Ellis and Joan Ellis both born in Immingham, Joan married Wilfred Hayes and had 3 daughters and Arthur married Dorothy Grist and had 2 children. Arthur may of had a brother or a cousin named Harold who lived and died in Wrexham, he was married to Peggy and they had a daughter.

Not much to start with but I have found the marriage of Arthur and Gertrude in a free BMD index but as the public records in the UK are not publicly viewable online I have ordered a copy of the certificate to see where that leads me, more info will be posted when I have it.