Nancy at Keynsham

Nancy Isabella Davies

Birth Name Davies, Nancy Isabella
Gramps ID I0013
Gender female
Age at Death 82 years, 6 months, 23 days

Notes

Note

Unlike her brothers, she didn't rebel against Jonah. Her fondness for sherry only developed when he died.

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth [E0037] 27/7/1901 Swindon, Wiltshire   1 2
Residence [E1169] between 1919 and 1923 Wirral, Cheshire AMA: Nancy Isabella ApSimon (née Davies) lived with her unmarried maternal aunts Ellen (Nell) and Rebecca (Beccy) Massey while she read chemistry at Liverpool. 3
Education [E2320] 1919 Wallasey High School, Wallasey, Wirral, Cheshire Won prize for botany while in the Upper 6th - Brahms Hungarian Dances in the Moszkowski version. Did she go there from age 16 or earlier?  
Degree [E0967] 7/7/1923 Liverpool University, Liverpool, Lancashire One of first women to obtain BSc Chemistry at Liverpool, class II. 4
Emigration [E1172] 1978 Western Australia, Australia   3
Death [E0038] 19/2/1984 Western Australia, Australia   5

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Jonah Rees Davies [I0041]1/11/187023/12/1951
Mother Isabella Massey [I0042]19/7/18681939
    Brother     George Rhys Davies [I0047] 1897 1961
    Brother     John Davies [I0046] 1898 11/1940
         Nancy Isabella Davies 27/7/1901 19/2/1984

Families

Family of Thomas Trevor ApSimon and Nancy Isabella Davies [F0002]
Married Husband Thomas Trevor ApSimon [I0007] ( * 5/11/1880 + 1976 )
 
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage [E0036] 1924 Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire Registered Q3. AMA: Gladys Dunn was working and couldn't afford to take time off to go to the wedding. DRA: there's a solid silver cake stand marked TTA 24 August 1924 - wonder why they didn't engrave NIA on it too. 6
Residence [E2292] between 8/1924 and 4/1938 Parkside House, 107 Liscard Road, Egremont, Wallasey, Wirral, Cheshire Drs Banks and Inman are listed here in 1915, but AMA thinks TTA may have moved in well before his wedding in 1924. Left for Bradford in 1938 in anticipation of WWII.  
Residence [E0442] between 4/1938 and 7/1948 St Olaves, 19 Woolley St, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire Left on retirement in 1948. 7
Residence [E0443] 1939 11 Woolley Street, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire With JRD, AMA, HTA, Rebecca, one more. 2
Residence [E0770] between 7/1948 and 1952 242b Trowbridge Rd, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire    
Residence [E0407] between 1952 and 1969 141 Wellsway, Keynsham, Somersetshire AMA in mail says that Wellsway was cleared up in 1969: I foolishly let the ApSimon copy of "Von Ribbentrop Is Still Dangerous" go when we cleared up 141 Wellsway in 1969, NIA reproved me after - she thought it a better book than the Lawrence one. 7 8
Residence [E0398] between 1972 and 1976 10 Brookvale Court, Winn Road, Southampton, Hampshire    

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