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I am trying to find John Pryce Davies, Born Newtown, Montgomeryshire 1869, and his wife Catherine Ann Ellis, and their children, who emigrated to Canada in 1911, and particularly John Pryce Davies, the son, Born Meifod, Montgomeryshire 1892, who it is thought enlisted in the 129th (Wentworth) Battalion in Canada in 1915, as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force that came to England.

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Name: John Pryce Davies
Gender: Male
Age: 77
Birth Date: 23 Dec 1867
Birth Place: Wales
Death Date: 4 Apr 1945
Death Place: Port Dalhousie, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada
Father: Richard Davies
Mother: Jane Pickstock
Spouse: Catharine Anne Ellis

Occ retired fruit farmer

A daughters marriage

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Name: Gwladys Davies
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Birth Year: abt 1904
Birth Place: Wales Eng Cord
Residence: Port Dolhousie Ont
Marriage Date: 6 Mar 1933
Marriage Place: St Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada
Father: John P. Davies
Mother: Catharine Ann Davies
Spouse: James Reginald Heaney



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Name: J Reg Heaney
Occupation: Retired
Year: 1972
Location: Saint Catherines, Ontario, Canada
Electoral District: St. Catharine's
With Gladys Heaney

Address 259 Lake Street

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Name: John Pryce Davies occ chauffeur
Age: 29
Birth Year: abt 1893
Birth Place: Wales
Marriage Date: 12 Apr 1922
Marriage Place: Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
Father: John Pryce Davies
Mother: Catherine Ellis Davies
Spouse: Agnes Jamieson Barr occ stenographer


Strange theres another entry


Name: John Pryce Davies
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Birth Year: abt 1892
Birth Place: Wales
Residence: Tp Saltfleet Ont
Marriage Date: 23 Jun 1933
Marriage Place: Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
Father: John P. Davies
Mother: Catharine Ann Davies
Spouse: Annie Jamieson Barr

Did Agnes perhaps die ??

Edit yes he is listed as widower so looks like he married a sister maybe


Name: Agnes Jamieson Davies
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Birth Date: abt 1894
Birth Place: Scotland
Death Date: 28 Jul 1930
Death Place: Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
Cause of Death: Hodgkins Disease

His attestation is on Ancestry


Name: John Price Davies
[John Pryce Davies]
Birth Date: 12 Apr 1892
Birth Place: Meifod, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Residence Place: Winona, Ontario
Father: John Pryce Davies
Regimental Number: 784929

Occ chauffeur

Joined 24 July 1916

Another daughter

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Name: Eva Gertrude Davis
Age: 25
Birth Year: abt 1897
Birth Place: Wales
Marriage Date: 11 May 1922
Marriage Place: Brant, Ontario, Canada
Father: John Price Davis
Mother: Catherine Ellis Davis
Spouse: Alexander Cammell

Eva Gertrude Davies
Registration Year: 1897
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration district: Llanfyllin
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: Montgomeryshire
Volume: 11b
Page: 188

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Name: Mrs Gertrude Cammell
Gender: F (Female)
Year: 1965
Location: Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Electoral District: Brantford
19 Robertson avenue
With Alexander Cammell retired

With all the family

Emigration
Name: Gertrude Davies
Gender: Female
Arrival Age: 14
Birth Year: abt 1897
Departure Port: Liverpool, England
Arrival date: 20 May 1911
Arrival Port: Quebec, Canada
Vessel: Teutonic
Search Ship Database: Search for the Teutonic in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database

1921 census

in the 1921 Census of Canada
Name: Catherine Davis
[Catherine Davies]
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Age: 54
Birth Year: abt 1867
Birth Place: Wales
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouse's Name: John P Davis
Father Birth Place: Wales
Mother Birth Place: Wales
Year of Immigration: 1910
Racial or Tribal Origin: Welsh
Province or Territory: Ontario
District: Brant
District Number: 67
Sub-District: Brantford East (Township)
Sub-District Number: 1
City, Town or Village: Brantford
Street or Township: Con 2 Lot 30
Municipality: Brantford
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
John P Davis 54 occ fruit farm
Catherine Davis 54
Emeal Davis 26
Gertrude Davis 23
Gladus Davis 20
Thomas Davis 19
Norman Davis 15
Wenifred Davis 13

Trancriotion looks odd but the page is faint
Think Emeal must be Emanuel edit no it's Ernest

Name: John P Davies
Birth Date: 1892
Death Date: 1975
Cemetery: Stoney Creek Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Stoney Creek, Hamilton Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Has Bio?: N
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/

With Agnes died 1930
And Anne died 1977

Edit
Annie J Davies
Maiden Name: Barr
Birth Date: 1897
Death Date: 1977
Cemetery: Stoney Creek Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Stoney Creek, Hamilton Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Has Bio?: N
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem...

Dear Shirley, thank you so much for all the information you have sent me. I do have about half of it, but you have sent me the important bits, like addresses of where people lived.

However, I have tried and tried in the past to view the Voters Lists, but I can't find a link for them. If you could send me a link to the Canadian Voters List, it would be really helpful.

What does the below section mean in your replies to me? Would you like me to look for the surname of Fahse for you, as I work with the British Births, Marriages and Deaths.

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is my Michael at his 80th birthday lunch in March 2014

Many thanks again
Jean

I got all the info on Ancestry

Thanks for the offer of look ups but I have all the info to be found on bmds

It's the German ancestry before they came to the uk that isn't online

Another entry no actual address

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Name: John Davies
Occupation: Chauffeur
Year: 1940
Location: Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
Electoral District: Wentworth
With Mrs J Davies

Has against them E D Smiths maybe an employer or landlord

Name: Ernest Davies
Gender: Male
Age: 48
Birth Date: 25 Jul 1895
Birth Place: Wales
Death Date: 13 Dec 1943
Death Place: St Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada
Father: John Pryce Davies
Mother: Catherine Ann Pryce Davies
Spouse: Effie Davies

Occ tool maker. Died of threat cancer

Looks like his marriage fathers name misheard maybe


Name: Ernest Davies
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Birth Year: abt 1897
Birth Place: Wales
Marriage Date: 15 Jan 1923
Marriage Place: Brant, Ontario, Canada
Father: John Roise Davies
Mother: Catherine Ann Ellis
Spouse: Dorothy Elizabeth Dunsdon

Died quite soon after the marriage

Name: Dorothy E. Davies
Maiden Name: Dunsdon
Birth Date: 1904
Death Date: 1923
Death Place: Brantford, Brant County Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Cemetery: Mount Hope Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Brantford, Brant County Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Has Bio?: N
Father: Joseph H. Dunsdon
Mother: Catherine Dunsdon
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem

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Name: Dorothy Elizabeth Davies
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Birth Date: abt 1904
Birth Place: Grantford
Death Date: 11 Feb 1923
Death Place: Brant, Ontario, Canada
Cause of Death: Puerperal Septicaemia

So died very very soon after the marriage

Shirley posted JPD's army attestation.

Here's his personnel record;

John Price Davies
in the Canada, WWI CEF Personnel Files, 1914-1918
Name: John Price Davies
[John Pryce Davies]
Birth Date: 12 Apr 1892
Birth Place: Meifod, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Residence Place: Winona, Ontario
Father: John Pryce Davies
Regimental Number: 784929

Demobbed July 14th 1919, at Hamilton, Ont.
Proposed residence after discharge: PO, Grandview, Brantford, Ont
A later form (1917) gives a new address: c/o E D Smith & Son, Winona, Ont.

Embarked in Halifax, Canada, 21/08/1916
Arrived in England (Liverpool) on SS Olympic, 30/08/1916.
At first with 116th Battalion at Witley Camp, Milford, then transferred to 129th Batt. at Bramshott. (Dec 1916)
Jan-Feb 1917 at Liphook
Posted to Shoreham 30/05/1917.
Posted to Shorncliffe, 07/06/1917
Proceeding overseas 17/06/1917 [.
Arrived Le Havre, 19/06/1917
On leave in UK, 08/07/1917 - 23/08/1917
Awarded good conduct badge 24/02/1918.
Appointed acting corporal with pay, 26/11/1918
Confirmed rank of corporal 13/04/1919 [ Beaurainville ]
Back to Witley 23/05/1919
"To Canada" 25/06/1919.


5ft 4.75 ins tall
Weight 132 lbs (on 15/02/1916)
Brown eyes, dark brown hair, fresh complexion.
Religion: Church of England

Father: John Pryce Davies, Brantford, Ont.
Mother: Catherine Davies, Grandview PO, Brantford, Ont.


Pay assigned to his mother.

Dear Shirley, thank you again for all the new information you have sent me, but for your own understanding, the names of the children you can't decipher in the 1921 census are:
Emeal is Ernest
Gladus is Gladys; and
Wenifred is Winifred

Yes, John Pryce Davies' name was wrong in Ernest's marriage details. In the UK 1911 census, for "The Stables, Woodcote Hall, Newport" (Shropshire), John's middle name is definitely written as "Pryce" but, from the way it is written, I can see how someone would mis-read it. John is with Thomas Powell at The Stables, and for his occupation someone had written "Chauffeur", then crossed through it and put "Motor Car Driver".