The Davis/Hazard (Baptist?) Trail

1813 - Mary Hazard married Richard Davis in Bristol

1832 - Richard had died, Mary married Robert Woolley, shoemaker from Middlesex. (there are strong correlations bettween 'Wolley' and 'Baptist', but nothing specific yet found)

1842 - Mary's son William Davis, also now a shoemaker, had moved to Cardiff sometime after October 1841. His son, William Carey Davis was born there in 1842 (named after William Carey, pictured right, link to wikipedia, founder of the Baptist Missionary Society).

1840s - the Great Western Railway was joined up between Bristol and Paddington.

1845 and 1849 the Davis family was back in Bristol where the next two children were born.

1856 - Ann Hazard (eldest child of Mary's brother James) married Robert Sayer in Bristol. He was boot maker from Holborn, London-Middlesex. Their first child was born in Bristol, 1860.
- later the same year Ann's younger brother james, a printer, married Clara Eliza Moore. She was also from Bristol but they married in Cardiff. The following year their first child was born in Bristol.

1858 - John Clifford (right, link to wikipedia) became the minister at Praed Street baptist church, close to Paddington station. He became the most famous baptist preacher of the age and built up a large congregation.

1859 - younger sister Mary Lewis Hazard, born in Bristol, married Alfred Llewellin Jones, a printer compositor, born Newport, Monmouthshire (just east of Cardiff). They married in St. Luke, London-Middlesex (possibly Great Mitchell St. Baptist Church, needs checking). Later the same year their first child was born in Bristol.

1860 - John Lewis Hazard, printer, married Mary Jenkins from Newport, Mon. They married in Bristol.

1861 - the boot&shoemaking Davis family were living in Cardiff again. It is not known for how long, but they were back in Bristol by the next census, and then remained there.

- by the same year most of Hazard families had moved from Bristol to Paddington and Marylebone, London. With the exception of Mary, now Jones, who was in Llanelly, north of Newport, Mon. and John Lewis Hazard, still in Bristol.

1864 - the Jones's were in Cheltenham, Glos.
- William Carey Davis married Ellen Goding at the Pithay Baptist Chapel, Bristol.

1866 - the Sayers were in Bristol

1868 - the Jones's were in Peckham, later Bayswater and Kensingon, London

1869-71 - the Sayers were in Cardiff - they then disappear.

1871 - John Lewis Hazard now in Kensington with the rest of the family.

From here on the Hazards remain in London, most of them gradually drifting east through St.Luke/Finsbury and on to Ilford/Romford by 1901.

1876 - Mary Jane Davis (Mary Hazard's granddaughter, and sister of William Carey Davis) married at the Philip Street Baptist Chapel in Bedminster, Bristol.

By 1911, Albert Davis, youngest son of William Carey Davis, and also boot maker from Bristol, had moved to Paddington. He was married in the parish church, St. Marks, Easton, but a couple of years earlier his older brother Frederick married in the Kensington Baptist Church, Stapleton Road.