The name I was given by Fester and my cousin turned out to be the same person. He has been reading the thread on the Davies family and was very kind enough to share the information with me. On Friday I phoned up and had a very interesting and fascinating chat with him. The information hasn’t enabled me to trace William between 1881 to 1901 but has given me a wealth of information about William’s direct family that Hugh will appreciate down there in Oz.
The Davies family is a large family of a mainly farming background and the family had many farms in the local area. That area is in the eastern part of the present day Llandudno Junction but in those early days before the railway came Llandudno Junction didn’t exist. Instead there were townships of Marl, Pensarn and Pabo and others too. The Davies had a number of farms in very close proximity, Marl Farm, Marl Bach, Maes Glas , Esgyryn Farm and the Pensarn Farm ( another topic on this forum)
I was told that the Davies’ owned and run the farms, the biggest and main one being Marl Farm. I’ve just found the info I wanted from the 1851 Census and Edward & Margaret were living at Marl Bach then as they were in the 1861 Census. As far as I can ascertain they didn’t ever live in any of the other farms mentioned above so I’m assuming that it was Marl Bach that was commonly known in Welsh as Ty Saith Chwaer ( house of the seven sisters) on account of the fact that all seven sisters lived there. I was told that some of the sisters may have married into farming backgrounds as was the practise then and one of the farms was Fferm Bach in Llandudno while another may have been Pyllau Farm on the Great Orme in Llandudno.
There is another thread on here with someone searching for Pensarn Farm and their relative William Bell Rogerson married Anne Jane Davies and farmed the land there. Of the farms mentioned Pensarn Farm has been demolished and Marl Bach is just a ruin (see photos) the other 3 properties are still there but only Marl Farm is still a working farm and the others are private residences.
A public footpath shown in an early O/S map ran from Pensarn Chapel to Egyryn Fawr farm and may have been a route that the Rogerson family took to see their Davies family relations who lived further up the hill.
Thanks again for the info provided by this person and it was nice to meet him again after so long. It seems Hugh, that you have got direct or indirect links with people who have posted on the forum