Alfred Alexander Davies (1811-1875) arrived 19 April 1834 on the Quebec Trader, with his father George Davies (1776-1853) and brother Thomas (1825-1902). He was a member of the first Town Trust, in 1848. He married widow Christiana They in 1837. After she died in 1843, he married Hannah Williams a few months later.
DAVIES, Alfred Alexander, b. 1811/1813. d. 13.3.1875 (Frem), son of George, arr. 19.4.1834 per Quebec Trader, m. 1st 10.4.1837 (Frem) Christiana THEY (widow & formerly widow of Robertson) b. 1801 d. 25.6.1843 (Frem), m. 2nd 16.10.1843 (Frem) Hannah WILLIAMS b. 1823/6 d. 10.7.1896 (Frem), dtr. of Frank & Ellen. she arr. with 21 other orphans sent out by the Children's Friend Society & worked for Richard McBryde Brown. Chd. Richard, Emma Elizabeth b. 1844 d. 1905, George Alfred b. 1846 d. 1897, Elizabeth Ellen b. 1849 d. 1916, Alfred Alexander b. 1853 d. 1934, Edward William b. 1855 d. 1904, Sophia Hannah b. 1857 d. 1942, Arthur Elvin b. 1867 d. 1918. Fremantle. Cooper & Tidewaiter 1849-1869. He bought Town Lots High St, Bannister St, & Collie St. 1851-1859 & in 1860 qualified as a juror with £1000 real estate. He went into pawnbroking business 1870-1874 & developed, with his son's assistance, "Springfield Farm" where he lived & died. Erickson.
The children of Alfred Alexander Davies and his second wife Hannah included George Alfred (1846-1897), Edward William (1855-1904) — both Mayors of Fremantle — and Arthur Elvin (1867-1918) a cabinet-maker and undertaker. The premises of Arthur E. Davies & Company, funeral directors, were at 9-13 Collie St, and then at 85 Market St.
When the Carrington St Cemetery (the current Fremantle Cemetery) opened in 1899, Arthur E. Davies (the funeral director) had his grandfather, father and mother exhumed and reinterred in the Anglican section in the new graveyard. The exhumation order (1899) is reproduced in Liveris (16). The gravestone (above) refers to George Davies and his son Alfred Alexander. Alfred's wife Hannah (d. 1896) and their daughter Elizabeth (d. 1916) are also interred there.
An Alfred A. Davies was the licensee of the Oddfellows Hotel 1888-1897. It was obviously not the Alfred Alexander Davies who died in 1875, but his son of the same son (born 1853). Western Mail, Friday 10 December 1897: 35. The West Australian, Wednesday 7 December 1892: 3.
Hitchcock, JK 1929, The History of Fremantle, The Front Gate of Australia 1829-1929, Fremantle City Council.
Liveris, Leonie B. 1991, Dismal Trader: The Undertaker Business in Perth 1860-1939, privately published.
Liveris, Leonie B. 2009, Monuments and Masons: Cemeteries at Karrakatta Fremantle Guildford Midland, MCB, who gives the date of the reinterment as 1899.
Errington, Steve 2017, 'The Davies of Fremantle: not just a token presence', FHS Newsletter, Autumn, pp. 1-2.
Heritage Council page for the premises in Bannister St - a source of the name Alfred George Davies, who is sometimes called just George.
Wikipedia page for George Alfred Davies.
Wikipedia page for Edward William Davies (the insane mayor).
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