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Author: bromaelor
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I've found someone else on Ancestry with this couple in their tree, but with a
different date for Edward's birth:
Edward G. Davies. Born 20 Jul 1840, Wales. Died 10 Aug 1907, Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio.
Elizabeth Roberts. Born 14 May 1847, Wales. Died 31 Dec 1911, Zanesville, Muskingum,
Ohio.
Children:
(1) William R Davies.
Born 1862, Wrexham.
(2) Edward T Davies.
Born 14 Aug 1865, Wrexham.
(3) Oliver Goldsmith Davies.
Born 27 Aug 1868, Cerney, Broughton, Wrexham. (Wrexham 11b 353)
Married Bertha May Weber 30 Nov 1892, Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio.
Died 29 Jun 1913, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio.
Buried 1 Jul 1913 in Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio.
(4) George H Davies.
Born 4 Oct 1874, Sharon, Pennsylvania.
(5) Charles Davies.
Born 29 Feb 1880, Sharon, Pennsylvania.
(6) Walter M Davies.
Born 20 Nov 1886 in Zanesville, Ohio.
Oliver's birth is registered in Wales as Oliver Davies (no mention of Goldsmith!).
Similary there are no recorded births for an Edward "G" Davies in Wrexham, so I
suspect that all of these middle names were added on arrival in the USA (I've read
somewhere that this was quite common?).
Also, Tan Lan (or Tan y Lan) Farm was at Adwy'r Clawdd in Coedpoeth (in the parish of
Bersham). In the 1851 & 1861 censuses it is farmed by both the Roden's and
Davies'.
I can see a *possibility* for Elizabeth Roberts in the 1861 census. She is living at Cefn
Farm in Cefn Mawr (RG9/4281/51A/50) with her widowed grandfather Edward Wright.
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