Complex sentence: Edwin Davy was born in Taranaki in 1850 to parents Edwin Davy and Anna Maria Smart and was a grandson of Captain Lleyson Hopkin Davy of the East India Company.
Split into simpler sentences: Edwin Davy was born in Taranaki in 1850 to parents Edwin Davy and Anna Maria Smart. He was a grandson of Captain Lleyson Hopkin Davy of the East India Company.