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Alexander DAVIS (1848 - 1940)
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Alexander DAVIS (1848 - 1940)

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Anne CAMPBELL (1852 - 1918)



























b. 1848 at Belfast, Ireland
m. 1874 Anne CAMPBELL (1852 - 1918) at Tweed River, New South Wales, Australia
d. 1940 aged 92
Events in Alexander DAVIS (1848 - 1940)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1848 Alexander DAVIS was born Belfast, Ireland
1874 26 Married Anne CAMPBELL (aged 22) Tweed River, New South Wales, Australia
1918 70 Death of wife Anne CAMPBELL (aged 66)
1940 92 Alexander DAVIS died
Personal Notes:
Alexander Davis was born in 1848 in Belfast and came with his parents to Australia in 1854. They came straight to Tumut and settled on a farming property on the Gilmore Creek.

They had the first vineyard in the district. In 1872 Alexander, who had then rented his parents property, commenced making wine. Eight years later he purchased "Woodlands", a property of 290 acres on the Upper Gilmore Creek.

He subsequently acquired other properties from nearby settlers until he had increased his holding to 630 acres. He grew maize, wheat and bred horses, cattle and sheep. He was a very progressive settler and was actively associated with the A. and P. Society.

In 1874 he married a daughter of James Campbell. They had a family of three sons and three daughters.
Source References:
73. Type: Book, Abbr: Pioneers of Tumut Valley, Title: Pioneers of the Tumult Valley , The History of Early Settlement, Auth: H.E. Snowden, Publ: Tumut & District Historical Society Incorporated, Date: 2004
- Reference = 77 (Name, Notes)
This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
g.bell@bigpond.net.au
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Geoff Bell, September 2020
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