1908 marriage: DAVIS Frederick George, VICKER Martha Elizabeth, Bristol,
Sep. 6a 309
Marriage Certificate (click image right):
1908 Marriage solemnized at Kensington
Baptist Chapel, Stapleton Road, in the District of Bristol in the
County of Bristol.
Second August 1908
Frederick George Davis 29 years Bachelor Boot finisher 100 Colston Road,
Easton Bristol, William Carey Davis Boot finisher
Martha Elizabeth Vicker 27 years spinster - 41 Bloy Street Easton, William
Vicker General Labourer
Married in the Kensington Baptist Chapel according to the rites and ceremonies
of the Baptists by Certificate by me Alfred J. Neal. minister, Robert
Clive Registrar.
This marriage was solemnized between us F. G. Davis, M. E. Vicker in the
presence of us F. G. W. Vicker, J. Vicker
Right: Kesington Baptist Chapel, Stapleton Road
Martha was already living at 41 Bloy Street, Easton, Bristol 5 (1).
Presumably the couple moved in with her parents. They remained there for
the rest of their lives.
Births Jun 1909 - DAVIS William George Bristol 6a 173
top left - Martha, age 27, with Bill in 1909
left - is Martha. The back of Geoff's copy (written by Grace?)
read: "Mum taken when she was 29 with Reg and Bill"
right - probably the first three children. l-r: Reggie, Maurice,
Bill
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Frederick & Martha marriage cert. 1908
Kensington Baptist Chapel, Stapleton Road (click
for interior views)
Albert Davis birth certificate -
Frederick given as 'Boot finisher'.
Birth
1910 Reginald Alfred Davis 1910 Jun Bristol 6a
Birth 1912 Maurice E. Davis, Bristol, Dec, 6a 185, mother Vicker
Birth 1915 - Albert James Davis born May 31 -
see birth certificate left.
Birth 1917 Winifred M. Davis Jun Bristol 6a 209 mother Vicker
Birth 1919 Lilian Davis Dec Bristol 6a 254 mother Vicker
Death 1921 Reginald A, Davis age 11, Sep. Bristol 6a 98
Right: Bloy St. arial & map
There was never any mention of Frederick being directly involved in the first world war, he was 32 in 1915 when Albert was born. Boot making would have been an essential job for the army at that time.
right - Wyn and Albert, about 1917/18. The writing on the back
of Geoff's copy: "Dear George [Stephanus] do you know this
little stranger? Albert has brought her to fetch you. With love from aunt
Lillie [Martha].
Left: the first six children around 1920; Reggie, Maurice and Bill
at the back; Albert on the left. Win and Lil in front. Grace not yet born.
Birth 1922 Grace Davis Sep Bristol 6a 244 mother Vicker
1920s - Reginald died from an ilness aged 11.
far
left - Frederick and Martha in the back garden of 41 Bloy Street,
probably in the 1930s.
left: Fred and Maurice in the Owen St. Mission Cricket team, 1932
Below left - also in the back garden of 41 Bloy Street, with an unidentified group. Also appears to be 1930s.
Far
Right - Albert joined the Tank Corps on May 15, 1936, two weeks before
his 21st birthday, this must have been taken as a new recruit.
right: 1939 marriage: Maurice Davis (age 27) married Lavinia Wolf, Bristol 1939 Sep 6a 690 - Maurice and Lavinia (centre of photo right) moved to Weston-Super-Mare where they had a daughter and a son.
1940 marriage: Winifred M. Davis (age 23) married Frank W. Brown,
Bristol 1940 Jun 6a 793
- Win and Frank lived in Kingswood with their two daughters Christine
and Maureen.
1941 marriage: William G. Davis (age 32) married Mary A.C. Cooper,
Portsmouth 1941 Mar. 2b 1299
- Bill and Mary lived in Winter Road, Southsea, where they had two
daughters, Sharon and Ann.
Left & right - in the usual place, are Frederick and Martha with their daughter Win and probably their granddaughter Christine. This would have been in the early 1940s, during the war.
Left - on the back: "This is the two spitfires outside the shelter last summer left Grace having a tussle with Lill." - the air raid shelter was in the garden of 41 Bloy St.
Right - Albert promoted to Sergeant early in the war.
Albert in Egypt - he was based in Cairo from 1938-45, eventually as a Sergeant Instructor, teaching driving and maintenance on tanks and heavy lorries. There are 126 photos of this period.
Left - appears to be Albert and Bill. On the back: "Troops on the move. London."
Right - Grace. On the back: "Taken Aug. 1943. G. Davis".
right - on the front: "To Albert from Lily", nothing on the back. Probably sent to Albert in Cairo during the war along with the one of Grace above.
1943 marriage: Lilian Davis married Albert J. Biss Bristol 1943
Jun 6a 250
left - Bert and Lil's wedding. On the back (as writ): "Bride
Bridegroom Maurice &Edie Manfield poking there nose in" -
Martha's sister, Emily, married Thomas Mansfield in 1900, known as 'Aunt
Em' to Martha's children, they lived opposite the Davis family in Bloy
Street (4). Edie would have been Emily's
daughter, therefore the bride's, and Maurice's, cousin. Lilian and Bert
moved into 41 Bloy Street with Martha, they never had children. The three
of them remained at the house for the rest of their lives.
left - this looks like Maurice, just after the war, in the garden at Bloy St. as usual.
right - Albert, same place. Looks like a summer picture, possibly 1945, not long before he got married on August 18. (for Albert & Queenie follow \|/ in the tree above)
1945 marriage: Grace Davis married George Rogers Bristol Dec 1945
6a 274
- Grace and George moved to Alpine Road (2),
the next road up from Bloy Street, and remained there until George died
in December 2002 and Grace died in December 2003. They had three children,
Paul, Keith and Susan.
1945 death - Frederick G, Davis, 66, Bristol, Sep. 6a, 82.
Death certificate (left):
Eighteenth august 1945, Ham Green Hospital U.D. [Bristol]
Frederick George Davis, male, 66, of 41 Bloy Street, U.D., Boot repairer.
1.(a) Lobar pheumonia, certified by Mohammed Nagir M.B.
W. G. Davis, son, 28 Hunter Road, Southsea, Twentieth August 1945, R.
Preston registrar
Frederick died on the wedding day of his son Albert to Queenie Gower,
August 18, 1945. Queenie has said she was told about his death but was
asked not to tell Albert until the next day so as not to spoil his wedding
day.
right - appears to be from the late 1940s, Martha in her late sixties, possibly with her son Maurice.
left: Martha with a grandchild, but not know which or when. On the back: 'took while we were on holiday at Weston outside the flat'. Probably Keith or Susan in the early 1950s.
Left: - with daughter-in-law Queenie, 1960s
right - the Davis family at the wedding of Geoff Vicker, Sept.
4, 1965. l-r: Frank, Win, Bert, Martha, Lil, Wendy? Grace?, Susan?, Bill,
Mary, Albert, Queenie. Photo possibly taken by George Rogers.
1966 death - Sep 1966, Martha E. Davis, 85, Bristol, 7e 33.
Death certificate (left):
Eighteenth August 1966. 41 Bloy Street, Easton
Martha Elizabeth Davis, female, 85 years, widow of Frederick George Davis,
Boot repairer.
1a Myocardial degeneration, b.Arteriosclerosis, c. senility, certified
by T.Gunner M.B.
L. Biss, daughter in attendance, 41 Bloy Street, Easton, Bristol.
Martha died at home, age 85, in the same street where she grew up. She
was apparently never ill, never went into a hospital and was doing the
housework as usual the day before she died in her sleep - 21 years to
the day after Frederick died.
1998 - Bill Davis died in South East Hants, probably Waterlooville where he was living with his daughter Ann.
- The Demolition of Bloy Street, articles & pictures. The street has been widened with many houses demlished. Number 41 was on the left side of the photo (right) just after the widened part - in the centre of the lower photo.
