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Surname: DAVIS
Given Name(s): Charles
Occupation(s): Lamp Maker

Birth Details
Birth Town: St.George Hanover Square
Birth County,
Region, Province:
Middlesex
Birth Country: England
Birth Date: 1824

Death Details
Death Town: Hobart
Death State/Territory: Tasmania
Death Country: Australia
Death Date: 1914

Immigration Details
Air/Port Landed: Hobart Town
Ship/Plane: Candahar
Year Arrived: 1842
Surname: BOLTER
Given Name(s): Kezia

Birth Details
Birth Town: Hobart
Birth County,
Region, Province:
Tasmania
Birth Country: Australia
Birth Date: 1847

Death Details
Death Town: Hobart
Death State/Territory: Tasmania
Death Country: Australia
Death Date: 1883

Family Stories

Life in Australia:

Charles Davis came to Hobart as a convict in 1842 and on his release in 1847, he set up a small tinsmithing workshop in Bathurst Street, Hobart with John Semple. In 1867 the firm of "Davis and Semple" split and Charles bought Semple's interest in the business. From then onwards the firm was known as "Charles Davis". By hard work and astute management, this grew into a hardware empire, selling items made in the greatly expanded workshops and importing goods from all round the world. From the 1880's he was a decon of the Memorial Congregational Church and he was also a founding member of the YMCA. Charles Davis gave the YMCA the rent from his Murray Street building, which formed a large part of the YMCA's revenue and in 1904 he gave them a site for a building and donated 1,000 pounds toward its construction. To be continued...

Descendants


Children
DUCKETT, Lillian Gertrude 1 CRISP, Amy Kezia 2 DAVIS, Alfred Thomas 3
DAVIS, William Lyndon 4

Grandchildren

BIDENCOPE THEN FETHERSTONHAUGH, Lillian Doreen 2 CRISP, Albert Lauriston 2 CRISP, Charles Lyndon 2
CRISP, Elwyn Derek 2 CRISP, Eric Vivian 2 CRISP, Ernest Reginald 2
MONTGOMERY, Mary Curtis 2 DAVIS, Noel Bertrand 3 "NO ISSUE", 4

Great Grandchildren

CRISP, Derick Lyndon 2 CRISP, Digby Donald 2 CRISP, Ian Lauriston 2
CRISP, Lyndall Helen 2 CRISP, Wende 2 SUTHERLAND, Jocelyn Dawn 2
UNKLES, Deborah Jane 2 WATSON, Annabelle Kate 2 WHARTON, Carolyn Dale 2
DAVIS, Ellis Charles 3 DAVIS, Geoffrey Bertrand 3 DAVIS, Patricia 3
MCPHERSON, Diane Christine 3

Great Great Grandchildren

CRISP, Hannah 2 CRISP, Katrina Robertson 2 CRISP, Penelope Lauriston 2
CRISP, Philippa Eddington 2 BEAINI, Lisa Anne 3 DAVIS, Annabelle Louise 3
DAVIS, Anthony Charles 3 DAVIS, Caroline Patricia 3 MCPHERSON, Duncan 3
MCPHERSON, Ewan 3

Great Great Great Grandchildren

BEAINI, Emma Elizabeth 3 BEAINI, James Daniel 3 BEAINI, Sara Louise 3
MCPHERSON, Max Charles 3

NB: Superscript behind each descendant name represents the lineage number of that descendant.
This family information was last updated by LISA ANNE BEAINI on the 7 January, 2001.