My interest with regards to John William McGregor Moore is that he is the third great grandfather of my wife. I wanted to see if I could find more information about his wife Margaret Louis Davis.
Working on the premises that they followed the general tradition of naming the second son after the maternal grandfather, I tried to find an Ephraim Davis that baptized a daughter named Margaret Louisa.
There is a transcription for a Margaret Louisa, that was baptized on 23 May 1815 at St Dunstan, Stepney, London that gives her parents as Ephraim Davis and his wife Ruth. It also provides a birth date of 23 December 1806. This transcription can be found at:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3C1-2H5
The same couple also baptized the following children:
Ephraim, a son in 1798, but who died young. His baptism provide a surname for the mother Ruth King
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-RXXD-C?i=82&cc...
This son died young as indicated by the burial record for the 4 April 1799:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-RXXW-P?i=29&cc...
This is important because in 1806 the couple will baptize another son, Ephraim George Davis in Gloucester.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NN28-WV6
Two daughters was baptized on 20 Feb 1803 namely Ann:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NFRW-S21
and Rebecca:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NL98-ZXC
There is a transcription for a marriage of a Margaret Louisa Davis to a John Williams Moore at St George in the East, Middlesex on 4 July 1827. It has the bride at age 21. This age is somewhat problematic as both the bride and groom’s ages are given as 21 years. As the original record could not be interrogated this potentially could mean that this couple is possibly not the John William McGregor Moore and Margaret Louisa Davis that we are researching.
It is however very pertinent that almost exactly 9 months after this marriage, John Moore, a ship’s carpenter baptized a son John William McGregor Moore at St Paul’s in Deptford, Kent. At the time of his death, the husband of Margaret Louisa Davis occupation was given as that of a carpenter.
https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58184daae93790ec8b1ff43f/...
Although the above does not conclusive proof that Ephraim Davis and Ruth King was the parents of Margaret Louisa Davis, wife of John William McGregor Moore, there is some circumstantial evidence that it the case. This information is placed to stimulate further research and a general discussion
