Christopher Davies- St Buryan- Harvey

[Mal]

Hello everyone,

I am a bit stuck with a Christopher Davies/Davies/Davie etc of St Buryan.
There are a few Christophers around but I have a reference to

Alice d/o Christopher Davies of St Buryan
married John Harvey/Hervei
Their daughter Elizabeth married William Davies "jnr" of Tredrea in 1709 in St Levan.

I need to find out more about this Christopher Davies, who does NOT appear to eb the right age to be the son of Richard Davies and Jane Noye but judging by the later marriages and the conenctions to St Buryan may well be a cousin of some sort.

Any information?

Thanks in advance,
M.

[Cornish Terrier]

I note from IGI that there is a member submitted entry which indicates Alice Davies married John Harvey 28th June 1673 at St Buryan.

Phillimore merely shows John HARVYE married Alce 28th June 1673 at St Buryan.

We all know about these particular IGI entries but it may be inferring that the information came from a Will.

Must say though that a quick check of CROCAT has not shown a Will for a Christopher Davies.

Another that will require some serious thinking!

CT

[Mal]

Thanks CT, I did find a reference online that seemed to be fairly well written from a Harvey researcher and a book, but a bit like the Ustick material a lot seems to come from unsourced IGI refs and unfortunately I have no possibility of visiting the Cornwall record office too find these wills I need.

Nevertheless the name Christopher seems to be one that is "popular" in the Davie(s) family. The St Buryan branches are problematic however because of the gaps- we get people appearing at baptisms and then disappearing again!

[Cornish Terrier]

You don't need to actually go to the CRO - any of the documents in their catalogue can usually be ordered on line.

Then there is always A2A and DocumentsOnline which are other potential sources for these items.

I ordered a couple of Wills via DocumentsOnline earlier this year and they were here in PDF format within about 10 or 15 minutes after payment was confirmed.

CT

[Mal]

I'll have a look!

[petitpois]

There was a Christopher Davies in St Buryan who was the youngest son of Mrs. Julian/Gillian Davies who, as a widow with 5 children, later married Joseph Noy. He was the youngest son of William Noy & Sarah Yorke and eventually William's heir. He was a fishmonger in London and amassed a lot of property around St Buryan. Joseph & Julian had no surviving children so the 5 Davies children inherited his estate. Julian makes no mention in her will of 1681 of a daughter named Alice nor of any Harvey grandchildren.

Christopher would have been born around the 1640's and is mentioned in Hester Noy's will of 1701 as having a wife named Mary, however it's hard to see that Alice could have been his daughter unless he was older than we thought. We don't yet know the name of Julian's first husband but it's very likely he had a brother named Christopher and he could have been the father of Alice.

[suksel]

I have some deeds from 1729 of Henry Davies transferring land to his son Christopher Davies

File is too large to upload. I have uploaded to facebook in the Cornish Nostalgic memories group...