Editing Ray Davies (section)

==Early years==
[[File:Kinks Denmark Terrace Davies.jpg|thumb|right|6 Denmark Terrace, birthplace of the Davies brothers]]
Raymond Douglas Davies was born at 6 Denmark Terrace in the [[Fortis Green]] area of [[London]] on 21 June 1944.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last=Kitts |first=Thomas M. |title=Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else |publisher=Routledge |year=2008 |isbn=9781135867959 |pages=1–2}}</ref> He is the seventh of eight children born to working-class parents, including six elder sisters and younger brother [[Dave Davies]].<ref name=":1" /> His father, Frederick George Davies,<ref>England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014</ref> was a slaughterhouse worker.<ref name="ReferenceA">London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936</ref> Frederick liked to hang out in pubs and was considered a ladies' man. He was born in [[Islington]] and his registered birth name was Frederick George Kelly.<ref>England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915</ref>

Frederick's father, Henry Kelly, was a [[greengrocer]] who married Amy Elizabeth Smith at [[St Luke's Church, Kentish Town|St Luke's Church]] in [[Kentish Town]] in 1887, and they had two children, Charles Henry and Frederick George.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> However, the marriage failed and Amy moved in with Harry Davies, bringing her two small children and her mother.<ref>1911 England Census</ref> Harry Davies, born in [[Minsterley]] in 1878, was an [[Ostlers|ostler]] who had moved with his family from Shropshire to Islington.<ref>1911 England Census, 1901 England Census, 1891 England Census</ref> Frederick George had changed his surname to Davies by the time he married Annie Florence Willmore (1905–1987)<ref>England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936</ref> in Islington in 1924.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Annie came from a "sprawling family". She had a sharp tongue and could be crude and forceful.<ref>Johnny Rogan, ''Ray Davies: a complicated life'', Vintage Books, 2015, p. 7-8.</ref>

When Davies was still a small child, one of his older sisters became a star of the dance halls, and soon had a child out of wedlock by an African man, an unauthorized immigrant who subsequently disappeared from her life. The child, a daughter, was ultimately raised by Ray's mother.<ref>Johnny Rogan, ''Ray Davies : a complicated life'', Vintage books, 2015, p. 15.</ref> Ray attended William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School in [[Muswell Hill]] along with [[Rod Stewart]]<ref name=":0" /> (now called [[Fortismere School]]).<ref name="rockstars">{{cite book |last1=Rees |first1=Dafydd |last2=Crampton |first2=Luke |title=Q Encyclopedia of Rock Stars |publisher=Dorling Kindersley |year=1996 |isbn=0-7513-0393-3}}</ref> His first Spanish guitar was a birthday gift from his eldest sister Rene, who died at the age of 31 from a [[heart attack]] on the day before Ray's 13th birthday, while she was out dancing at the Lyceum Ballroom in the [[Strand, London]] in June 1957.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|date=11 March 2015|title=Ray Davies by Johnny Rogan review – the 'complicated life' of the Kinks frontman|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/11/ray-davies-a-complicated-life-johnny-rogan-review-kinks|access-date=27 June 2021|website=The Guardian}}</ref>