I am trying to verify a family story and establish more ancestry information on Daniel Davies thought born Nov 7 1862 in Tregargon Cardigan Wales ?. The family is said to have come from Llannddewibrefi area. Daniel Davies went on to become a vicar in Wrexham, Red Canon of Wales and Bishop of Bangor before he died. Parents may have been Evan Davies and Mary Lloyd. Another legend is that Emily Davies, a force in the founding of Girton College Cambridge, is a distant relative. As Emily was born in 1830, daughter of John Davies and Mary Hopkinson the Emily connection must go back to Daniels father or more probably Grandfather or great grandfather. Is anyone else working on this Davies family, if so can they or anyone else help in establishing the link. Or provide more information on Daniel Davies family and ancestors. Regards and thanks for any suggestions Fred Owen Gig Harbor

----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Owen" <fgvfowen@centurytel.net> To: <WLS-CARDIGANSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 1:25 AM Subject: [WLS-CGN] Daniel Davies (Deceased) Past Bishop of Bangor > I am trying to verify a family story and establish more ancestry information on Daniel Davies thought born Nov 7 1862 in Tregargon Cardigan Wales ?. The family is said to have come from Llannddewibrefi area. Daniel Davies went on to become a vicar in Wrexham, Red Canon of Wales and Bishop of Bangor before he died. Parents may have been Evan Davies and Mary Lloyd.>> * * * * * FROM: 'Who's Who, 1897-1998' DAVIES, Rt. Rev. Daniel: Bishop of Bangor since 1925; Canon Residentiary of St Asaph, 1910-1925; Vicar of Bedelwyddan, near Rhyl, 1923-1925. Personal Details: Born 7 November 1863; son of Evan Davies, Llanddewi, Cardigan; married Frances Hester Mary, only daughter of Major R. C. Dobbs Ellis, late 1st Batt. 22nd Regiment and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; four sons two daughters. Education: Ystrad Meurig School; St John's College, Cambridge; 2nd Class Theol. Tripos, Part I, 1886, and BA; 2nd Class Theol. Tripos, Part II, 1887. Work: Curate of Conway, 1887; Bangor, 1889; Vicar Choral of St Asaph Cathedral, 1890; Vicar of Brymbo, 1893; Rector of Denbigh, 1897; Rural Dean of Denbigh, 1904; Proctor in Convocation for St Asaph Diocese, 1906; Vicar and Rural Dean of Wrexham, 1907; Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1912. Address: Bishopscourt, Bangor. Motor Car Registration Number: DM 3634. Death: Died 23 August 1928" * * * * * << Another legend is that Emily Davies, a force in the founding of Girton College Cambridge, is a distant relative. As Emily was born in 1830, daughter of John Davies and Mary Hopkinson the Emily connection must go back to Daniels father or more probably Grandfather or great grandfather.>> FROM: Dictionary of National Biography (on CD-ROM): "Davies, Sarah Emily 1830-1921, promoter of women's education, generally known as Emily Davies, was born at Southampton 22 April 1830, the fourth child of the Rev. John Davies, D.D., who was rector of Gateshead from 1840 to 1861, by his wife, Mary Hopkinson. She was educated at home. From girlhood she felt a strong interest in the efforts made to raise the position of women by Elizabeth Garrett (afterwards Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M.D.) [q.v.] and Barbara Leigh Smith (afterwards Mme Bodichon) [q.v.]. Visits to her brother, the Rev. John Llewelyn Davies [q.v.], in London, enabled Miss Davies to do occasional work for the Englishwoman's Journal (founded in 1858 by Mme Bodichon and Miss Bessie Rayner Parkes, afterwards Mme Louis Belloc) and for the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (founded in 1859). On her father's death in 1860, Miss Davies, with her mother, moved to London and engaged actively in helping Miss Garrett to enter the medical profession. This led to the formation in 1862 of a committee, with Miss Davies as secretary (1862-1869), for obtaining the admission of women to university examinations. The committee's efforts secured in 1865 the admission of girls to the Cambridge senior and junior local examinations. In 1866 she founded the London Schoolmistresses' Association, of which she was honorary secretary till its dissolution in 1888. A memorial promoted by Miss Davies in 1864 caused girls' schools to be included in the scope of the Schools Inquiry Commission (1864-1868), before which she and Miss Frances Mary Buss, principal of the North London Collegiate School for Ladies, gave evidence of great value. The local examinations and the commission led to the modernization of girls' schools. As nothing equivalent to university education was then available for women, Miss Davies began in 1867 to organize a college for women, with the help of Mme Bodichon, Henry Richard Tomkinson, Henry John Roby [q.v.], James (afterwards Viscount) Bryce, Sedley Taylor, Lady Stanley of Alderley [q.v.], and others. The college, which was opened at Hitchin in 1869 and transferred to Cambridge (Girton College) in 1873, was henceforth Miss Davies' main interest, and its finance and general policy were directed by her. She insisted that the students should submit to the same tests and, as far as possible, to the same conditions as university men, and she opposed all attempts to organize separate educational schemes for women. In suffrage work also Miss Davies was a pioneer. With Mme Bodichon and Miss Parkes she organized the first petition, which was presented by John Stuart Mill to parliament on 7 June 1866; and in 1866-1867 she acted as secretary to the first women's suffrage committee. In 1870 she was elected one of the first women members of the London School Board, but she withdrew in 1873 and devoted herself entirely to Girton College, where she resided as mistress from 1873 to 1875. In 1904 she resigned the honorary secretaryship of the college, which she had held since 1867, except for a brief interval during which she was treasurer. She then turned again to suffrage work, and became chairman of the London Society for Women's Suffrage. She died at Hampstead 13 July 1921. Miss Davies's chief writings are The Higher Education of Women (1866) and Thoughts on Some Questions relating to Women, 1860-1908 (1910). She had a remarkable power of carrying her schemes into effect; rational and clear-sighted, she combined tenacity of purpose with such caution, forethought, and moderation in action as to earn for herself the description of 'this very unrevolutionary woman', although in reality she was one of the chief figures in the movement which revolutionized the position of women." and also in "Who's Who": DAVIES, (Sarah) Emily. Awards: Hon. LLD Glasgow. Positions: Hon. Secretary, 1867-1904, Mistress, 1873-1875, Girton College, Cambridge. Personal details: Born Southampton, 22 April 1830; daughter of Rev. J. Davies, DD, Rector of Gateshead. Education: Home. Work: Hon. Secretary to Committee for obtaining admission of women to University Examinations, 1862-1869; Hon. Sec. of Committee of Proposed New College for Women, 1867; Member School Board of London, 1870-1873; Life ­Governor of Univ. College, London; late Governor of Grammar School, Hitchin. Publications: The Higher Education of Women, 1866; Thoughts on some Questions relating to Women, 1860-1908, 1910. Address: 17 Glenmore Road, Belsize Park, NW. Died 13 July 1921. [This contradicts the birthplace given at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/b16.htm ] Her brother also features in 'Dictionary of National Biography': Davies, John Llewelyn 1826-1916, theologian, was born at Chichester 26 February 1826, the eldest son of the Rev. John Davies, D.D., an evangelical divine, rector of Gateshead from 1840 to 1861, by his wife, Mary Hopkinson. He was educated at Repton School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1848 he was bracketed fifth in the classical tripos with his friend, David James Vaughan [q.v.], also of Trinity, with whom he had been elected to a Bell university scholarship in 1845; in 1850 the friends were elected fellows of their college together, and they subsequently (1852) collaborated in translating Plato's Republic. Davies as an undergraduate was already interested in political and social questions, and he became president of the Union Society. After taking his degree he for a time taught private pupils, among whom was (Sir) Leslie Stephen. About this time he came under the influence of Frederick Denison Maurice [q.v.], whose teaching his clear mind was to make acceptable to many who found Maurice himself elusive. Taking orders in 1851 Davies first held a curacy, unpaid, at St. Anne's, Limehouse, and was then for four years (1852-1856) incumbent of St. Mark's, Whitechapel. He now became closely associated with Maurice's circle, especially Thomas Hughes, Charles Kingsley, and John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, in the work of the co-operative movement and in the establishment of the Working Men's College in Great Ormond Street in 1854. In 1856 he was appointed to the crown living of Christ Church, Marylebone, which he held for thirty-three years. It was mainly a poor parish, but the rector's preaching drew hearers from other parts of London ... <snip> ... When Davies left London in 1889, on being presented to the Trinity College living of Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, a valedictory address, to which was attached a remarkable list of signatures, recognized the combination in him of a 'clear and firm assertion of Christian truth with a generous appreciation of all earnest thought and feeling', and an 'habitual sympathy with rich and poor alike'. Davies held his Westmorland living for twenty years, adapting himself successfully to the new conditions of life and work, and throwing himself vigorously into the educational business of the town and county. In 1895 he lost his wife, Mary, the eldest daughter of Sir Charles John Crompton [q.v.], whom he married in 1859, and shortly afterwards two sons of great promise. He had six sons, three of whom were fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, and one daughter. He retired in 1908 at the age of eighty-two, and passed the remaining eight years of his life with his daughter at Hampstead. He died there 18 May 1916. Davies, always a great walker, was in his younger days a keen lover of mountain climbing: he was one of the original members of the Alpine Club, and made the first ascents of the Dom and the Täschhorn. * * * * * Probably difficult to prove any link, although the university record of Rev. John Davies (Senior) may indicate his parentage. AJ.