Davis/Davies

Davis family page

Thomas Benjamin Davis, one of Jersey's greatest benefactors, who was born into a poor fishing family

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Davis family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Davis, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

You can also select marriages or burials. Select the name you want
and when the list of records is displayed you can easily refine the search, choosing a single parish, given name(s) and/or start and end dates.

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

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Origins of surname

The name, in its various spellings, is derived from the given name David, and usually indicated a son of David

Early records

The family name began to appear in Jersey records in the 1770s, and has been present ever since as several variants.

Variations

• Davis
• Davie
• Davies
• Davison
• Davisson

Family records

Church records

Tips for using these links

• Davis baptisms in Jersey
• Davis marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Davis marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Davis burials in Jersey

• Davies baptisms in Jersey
• Davies marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Davies marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Davies burials in Jersey

Family trees

• Rice Davis: 18th-20th centuries
• William Davis: 18th-19th centuries
• Daniel Davies: 18th-20th centuries
• Richard Davis: 18th-19th centuries
• Richard Davis 2: 18th-21st centuries

Great War service

• Davis family members who served in World War 1

Occupation records

• Davis Occupation identity cards

Family wills

• Davis family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Davies/Davis burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

• Plaisance

Family album

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  Evan Davis
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  Sophia Davies, nee Paddock
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  Maria Davies, nee Campbell
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  George William Hope Davies
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  Five Davies siblings in 1952
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  Four of the five in the 1940s
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  Dorothy Davies, 1942
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  Evan Alfred Davies
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  Howard Davis
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  Patricia Davis (1936-1983), emigrated to Montreal. Daughter of Sydney James and Alice Ann, nee Hingston
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  Hubert Raymond Davis (1888-1973) in Great War uniform. Son of Richard and Emily Matilda, nee Bishop
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  George and Mary Gladys Davis, nee Williams, and members of the Williams family in 1920
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  N Davis, a Jersey Swimming Club junior champion in 1906
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  Maud, Lucy and Henrietta Davis
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  Lucy Jane Davis (1877-1954)
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  Grace Davis, nee Lincoln
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  Hubert Raymond Davis and Alice Grace, nee Lincoln, 1933
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  Siblings Hubert Raymond Davis and Gladys Emily
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  John Norcott Davis (1893-1968)
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  John Norcott Davis during the Great War
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  Alice Grace Evelyn Davis, nee Lincoln
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  Enid Davis, on the right, with Italian friends - Facebook picture
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  Enid Davis, left, and Madeline Bons - Facebook picture

Occupation curfew cards

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  A curfew pass issued to Frederick Davis during the Occupation as a member of the Honorary Police

Family businesses

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  Davies' New Muisical Circulating Library in business in the Royal Square in 1837

Family gravestones

Click on any image to see a larger version. See the Jerripedia gravestone image collection page for more information about our gravestone photographs

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  David - St Matthew’s, St Lawrence
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  Davin, St Lawrence
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  Davis, St Lawrence
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  Davis, St Lawrence
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  Davis, St Lawrence
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  Davis - St John’s Church cemetery
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  Davis, St Lawrence
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  Davis, St Lawrence
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  Davis, St Lawrence
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  Davies - St Ouen parish cemetery
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  Howard Leopold Davis, Etaples Military Cemetery
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  Thomas Leopold Davis, Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form

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