Birth: January-March 1841 Holy Trinity, Coventry, UK
Father: Daniel Davis c1809-1883
Mother: Eliza Buckler 1812-1877
Christening: 15 April 1841 Holy Trinity, Warwickshire, UK
Marriage: 7 August 1860 Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwickshire, UK
Husband: William Horton (Orton) 1839-1935
Death: July-September 1889 Birmingham, Warwickshire, UK
Father unknown
Arthur Davis 1858-1921
By William
William Henry Horton 1861
George Horton 1863
Mary Ellen Horton 1868
Rosetta Horton 1869
Albert Horton 1877
Sarah Jane Horton [Sheppard] 1879-1927
Birth of Female Davis in FreeBMD in January-March 1841 in Coventry (16 372).
Entry in Ancestry Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1910 for Jane David (sic) baptised 15 April 1841 at Coventry, Holy Trinity, parents Damil (sic) and Eliza David (sic). "Page 16 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of the Holy Trinity in the County of Coventry in the Year 1841 [...] April 15th No.127 Jane Dr. of Danial, [a] Labourer, and Eliza Davies [sic] of Radford Road".
In the 1841 census as Jane Davies (sic - on the original) aged 3 months, born in Warwickshire, and living with Daniel and Eliza (parents?) and Sarah (sister?) in Radford Road, Holy Trinity, Warwickshire.
In the 1851 census as Jane Davis aged 9, born in Coventry, Warwickshire, and living with her parents (Daniel and Eliza), and two brothers (Daniel and George) in Radford Road Coventry Holy Trinity, Warwickshire.
Her son was born in July-September 1858 in Coventry and christened on 8 February 1860 at Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwick, mother Jane Davis.
Entry in Ancestry Warwickshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1910 for the banns of Jane Davis and William Orton on 8 July 1860 at Holy Trinity Coventry. "No. 557 Banns of the Marriage between William Orton, Bachelor and Jane Davis, Spinster both of this parish were published as follows: 1st, on Sunday June 24th [...], 2d on Sunday July 1st [...] 3d, on Sunday July 8th."
Marriage of Jane Davis and William Orton in FreeBMD in July-September 1860 in Coventry (6d 494).
Marriage of Jane Davis aged 20, father Daniel Davis, and William Orton aged 21, father Edward Orton, in the IGI on 7 August 1860 at Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwick. There is also an entry for Jane Davis, single, father Daniel Davis, and William Orton, single, father Edward Orton, on 7 August 1860 at Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwickshire. Similar information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973.
Entry in Ancestry Warwickshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1910 for the marriage of Jane Davis aged 20, father Daniel Davis, and William Orton aged 21, father Edward Orton, on 7 August 1860 at Coventry, Holy Trinity. "1860 Marriage solemnised at the Parish Church in the parish of Holy Trinity Coventry in the County of Warwick [No.] 142 August 7th 1860 William Orton [aged] 21, [a] Bachelor [and] Coal-heaver [of] Ironmonger Row, [father] Edward Orton, [a] Weaver, [and] Jane Davis [aged] 20, [a] Spinster [of] Ironmonger Row, [father] Daniel Davis, [a] Brewer. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [... both made their marks] in the Presence of us George Thomas Crowrger? and Mary Hindley [who made her mark]".
In the 1861 census as Jane Horton aged 20, born in Coventry, Warwickshire, a laundress, and living with her husband (William) at 8 1 Court 1 Burgess, Coventry Holy Trinity, Warwickshire. Her son was living with his grandparents (Daniel and Eliza Davis) at 18 Bishopgate Green, Coventry Holy Trinity.
In the 1871 census as Jane Horton aged 30, born in Coventry, Warwickshire, and living with her husband (William), three sons (Arthur, George and William), two daughters (Edda and Mary E), a boarder (George Davis aged 27, born in Coventry, Warwickshire, widowed, and a labourer at the gas works - brother?), and his daughter (Elizabeth aged 2 and born in Birmingham, Warwickshire) at 10 Mill Lane, Erdington, Aston, Warwickshire.
In the 1881 census as Jane Horton aged 41, born in Coventry, Warwickshire, and living with her husband (William), two sons (Albert and William H), and two daughters (Jane and Sarah) at 1 CT 2 Hse, Bullock Street, Aston, Warwickshire.
Death of Jane Horton in FreeBMD in July-September 1889 aged 48 in Birmingham (6d 73).
There are eight entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Jane Davis.
Entry in The Bashfords of Worthing for Jane.
Note that Coventry was a county from 1451 to 9 Novenber 1842 when it became part of Warwickshire.
Jane Davis was the mother of Arthur Davis, husband of Emily Jane Cowles, my grandaunt.
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