John Davison

John Davison (1808 - c.1882)

FATHER:	MOTHER:	SPOUSE:	OFFSPRING:
Unknown	Unknown	Eleanor Unknown (b.1823)	George Davison (b.1851) Robert Davison (b.1853) Mark Davison (b.1859) David Davison (b.1861) Mary Eleanor Davison (b.1864)

BIRTH:	1808 - Shincliffe, County Durham
MARRIAGE:	No Details
DEATH:	No Details

KNOWN ADDRESSES:

3 Ryhope Street South, Ryhope, Sunderland - 1871
Sea View, Ryhope, Sunderland - 1881

BIOGRAPHY:

John Davison was born in approximately 1808 in Shincliffe, Durham. I don't know who his parents were or whether he had any siblings.

He married a woman named Eleanor (unknown maiden name) who was fifteen years younger than him. They went on to have at least five children; George, Robert, Mark, David and Mary Eleanor between 1851 and 1865.

Their middle child, Mark, was born in Bishop Middleham, County Durham while trhe two youngest were born in West Hartlepool, County Durham.

In all census returns John records his occupation as "Blacksmith". The 1901 census he records his occupation as "Blacksmith - Out of Employment". He is 73 years old.

When Mary Eleanor marries in 1883 she leaves the section blank that relates to her father and his occupation. This suggests to me that he was likely deceased by this time. He would have been approximately 74 at death.

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John Davison living with his family in the 1871 census

HISTORICAL EVENTS:

1865 - EARL JOHN RUSSELL (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister for the second time.
1866 - EDWARD GEORGE GEOFFREY SMITH STANLEY, EARL OF DERBY (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister for the third time.
1867 – SECOND REFORM BILL OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS gave the vote to most urban male workers.
1868 – BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1868 – WILLIAM GLADSTONE (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister.
1870 – EDUCATION ACT IS PASSED providing the establishment of government schools and for compulsory education.
1874 - BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister for the second time.
1876 – ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL SENDS A VOICE MESSAGE AND THE TELEPHONE IS INVENTED. The first words that were clearly heard by the recipient were, “Watson, come here, I want you”, heard by his assistant, Mr Watson in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
1880 - WILLIAM GLADSTONE (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister for the second time.
1884 – FURTHER REFORMS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS gives the vote to almost all adult males.
1885 – ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNE-CECIL, MARQUIS OF SALISBURY (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1886 - WILLIAM GLADSTONE (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister for the third time.
1886 - ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNE-CECIL, MARQUIS OF SALISBURY (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister for the second time.
1892 - WILLIAM GLADSTONE (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister for the fourth time.
1894 – ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE, EARL OF ROSEBERY (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister.
1895 - ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNE-CECIL, MARQUIS OF SALISBURY (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister for the third time.
1899 – BRITAIN ENTERS THE BOER WAR in South Africa against Dutch and German forces. The war lasts until 1902. Popular opinion at home is against the war and the effect is that further colonial expansion is not favored.
1901 – EDWARD VII ASCENDS THE THRONE following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria, Britain’s longest serving monarch. Edward is the eldest son of Victoria and Albert and marks the start of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1902 – ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1905 – SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister.
1908 – HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister.
1910 – GEORGE V ASCENDS THE THRONE following the death of his father, Edward VII. George is Edward’s second son.
1914 – BILL GRANTING HOME RULE TO IRELAND BECOME LAW.
1914 – WORLD WAR I, the Great War, starts.
1916 – DAVID LLOYD GEORGE (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister.
1917 – GEORGE V CHANGES THE NAME OF THE ROYAL HOUSE FROM SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA TO WINDSOR.
1918 – UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ACT PASSED giving the vote to women over thirty years old.
1918 – WORLD WAR I ENDS.
1920 – GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND ACT PASSED, superseding an earlier unacceptable act. Six of the nine counties of Ulster are to be known as Northern Ireland while the other three and the provinces of Connaught, Munster and Leinster are to form the Irish Free State. Northern Ireland is given its own parliament and permitted to send representatives to Westminster while the Irish Free State is given a similar status to that of Britain’s commonwealth. The Irish Free State ceases to be part of the United Kingdom from early 1922.
1922 – ANDREW BONAR LAW (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1923 – ALBERT EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY discards the concept of absolute motion and instead treats only relative motion between two systems or frames of reference. One consequence of the theory is that space and time are no longer viewed as separate, independent entities but rather are seen to form a four-dimensional continuum called space-time. Einstein also sought unsuccessfully for many years to incorporate the theory into a unified field theory valid also for subatomic and electromagnetic phenomena.
1923 – STANLEY BALDWIN (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1924 – JAMES MACDONALD (Labour) becomes Prime Minister.
1926 – DECLARATION MADE AT THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE stating that all the nations of the British Commonwealth of Nations, notably UK, Canada, Australia, the Irish Free State, South Africa, New Zealand and Newfoundland, were equal in status, each independent of the others but uniting under a common crown.
1928 – UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE FINALLY ACHIEVED IN 1928, when women were given exactly the same voting rights as males.
1929 – GREAT DEPRESSION EFFECTS BRITAIN after a long period of economic stagnation after the war.
1935 – STANLEY BALDWIN (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1936 – EDWARD VIII ASCENDS THE THRONE following the death of his father George V.
1936 – EDWARD VIII ABDICATES THE THRONE TO MARRY MRS SIMPSON. Edward becomes the Duke of Windsor.
1936 – GEORGE VI ASCENDS THE THRONE following the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII.
1937 – ARTHUR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1939 – GERMANY INVADES POLAND AND GREAT BRITAIN ENTERS WORLD WAR II.
1940 – WINSTON CHURCHILL (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1940 – BATTLE OF BRITAIN FOUGHT.
1941 – ATLANTIC CHARTER SIGNED OFF NEWFOUNDLAND whereby the United States gave “all aid short of war”.
1941 – JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR precipitates American entry into the war.
1941 – BRITAIN LOSES MANY OF IT’S PACIFIC STRONGHOLDS TO THE JAPANESE, most notably Singapore, Burma, Malaya and the British Western Pacific Islands.
1942 – ANGLO-AMERICAN LANDINGS IN NORTHWEST AFRICA start to increase the pressure on German forces. Similar landings in Sicily in 1943 have the same affect.
1944 – D-DAY LANDINGS IN NORMANDY, FRANCE, pushes the Germans back.
1945 – WORLD WAR II ENDS as Germany surrenders in May 1945 and Japan in September 1945.
1945 – CLEMENT ATTLEE (Labour) becomes Prime Minister.
1945 – GREAT BRITIAN IS SEVERELY AFFECTED BY THE WAR. It has lost 360,000 servicemen, 60,000 civilians, 4.5 million dwellings and 3/5 of its merchant fleet.