Editing Davy Jones's locker (section)

===Proposed origins of the tale===
The origin of the tale of Davy Jones is unclear, and many conjectural<ref name="slang">{{cite book|last1=Farmer|first1=John S|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lUYVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA129|title=A Dictionary of slang and Colloquial English|last2=Henley|first2=William Ernest|year=1927|pages=128–129}}</ref> or folkloric<ref name="mq">{{cite web|author=Michael Quinion|year=1999|title=World Wide Words|url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dav1.htm|access-date=15 January 2013}}</ref> explanations have been told:

*''[[Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue|The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue]]'' by [[Francis Grose]], written in 1785 and published in 1811, includes the definitions: "DAVID JONES. The devil, the spirit of the sea: called [[Necken]] or [[Draugr]] in the north countries, such as Norway, Denmark, and Sweden" and "DAVID JONES' LOCKER. The sea".<ref name="dotwt">[[Francis Grose|Grose, Francis]]. 1811. ''[https://archive.org/stream/1811dictionaryof05402gut/dcvgr10.txt Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence]'', 10th ed. [[Project Gutenberg]]. Retrieved 2021-11-16.</ref>
*Written within a foreign affairs segment within the newspaper 'Chester Chronicle' in 1791, the term 'Safe in Davy Jones's locker' was used to convey that a person was lost, therefore to be within Davy Jones's locker was to be lost at sea.<ref>Chester Chronicle - Friday 18 November 1791 - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000341/17911118/005/0002</ref>
*The 1870 and 1895 editions of the ''[[Dictionary of Phrase and Fable]]'' connect Davy to the [[West Indies|West-Indian]] ''[[duppy]]'' (''duffy'') and Jones to biblical [[Jonah]]: {{blockquote|''He's gone to Davy Jones' locker'', i.e. he is dead. Jones is a corruption of Jonah, the prophet, who was thrown into the sea. ''Locker'', in seaman's phrase, means any receptacle for private stores; and ''duffy'' is a ghost or spirit among the West Indian negroes. So the whole phrase is, "He is gone to the place of safe keeping, where duffy Jonah was sent to."|E. Cobham Brewer<ref name="fable"/>}} The reference to ''duppy''/''duffy'' was deleted in later revisions of Brewer's dictionary.
*David Jones, a real [[pirate]], although not a very well-known one, living on the [[Indian Ocean]] in the 1630s.<ref>{{cite book| last = Rogoziński| first = Jan| location = Ware, Hertfordshire, UK | title = The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pirates| isbn = 1-85326-384-2| date = 1997-01-01| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/wordsworthdictio00rogo}}</ref> Charles Grey calls him "a truculent rascal ... to whose activities in covering up the evidence of their misdeeds, Sir William Foster is inclined (wrongly) to attribute the origin of the sea phrase ''Davy Jones's Locker''".<ref name="Grey - Eastern Seas">{{cite book|last1=Grey|first1=Charles|title=Pirates of the eastern seas (1618–1723): a lurid page of history|date=1933|publisher=S. Low, Marston & co., ltd|location=London |url=http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/documents/1D30004CA384A81381DD3C8F45CAE3B216713B01.html|accessdate=26 June 2017}}</ref>
*Duffer Jones, a notoriously [[myopic]] sailor who often found himself overboard.<ref name="jones">{{cite book|last=Shay|first=Frank|title=A Sailor's Treasury|publisher=Norton|id=ASIN B0007DNHZ0}}</ref>
*A British pub owner who supposedly threw drunken sailors into his ale locker and then gave them to be [[Conscription|drafted]] on any ship.<ref name=mq/>
*Pinkerton attributes its origin to the Biblical Jonah:
{{blockquote|During many years of seafaring life, I have frequently considered the origin of this phrase, and have now arrived at the conclusion that it is derived from the scriptural account of the prophet Jonah. The word 'locker', on board of ship, generally means the place where any particular thing is retained or kept, as "bread locker", "shot locker", "chain locker", &c. In the sublime ode in the second chapter of the Book of Jonah, we find that the prophet, praying for deliverance, described his situation in the following words:—"in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about; the depth closed me round about; the earth with her bars was about me". The sea, then, might not be misappropriately termed by a rude mariner, Jonah's locker—that is, the place where Jonah was kept or confined. Jonah's locker, in time, might be readily corrupted to Jones's locker; and Davy, as a very common Welsh accompaniment of the equally Welsh name, Jones, added, the true derivation of the phrase having been forgotten.|source=W. Pinkerton, ''Notes and Queries'': Vol. III, No. 86, page 478, Saturday, June 21. 1851.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Project Gutenberg|date=September 21, 2011|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37496/37496-h/37496-h.htm|via=[[Project Gutenberg]]}}</ref>}}
*The phrase may have been associated with balladeer and clergyman [[David Lloyd (Dean of St Asaph)|David Lloyd]], well known for his nautical adventure ballad ''The Legend of Captain Jones''.<ref name="Lloyd">{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=David |title=The legend of Captain Jones. : Relating his adventure to sea: his first landing, and strange combat with a mighty bear. His furious battel with his six and thirty men, against the army of eleven kings, with their overthrow and deaths. His relieving of Kemper Castle. His strange and admirable sea-fight with six huge gallies of Spain, and nine thousand souldiers. His taking prisoner, and hard usage. Lastly, his setting at liberty by the Kings command, and return for England |date=1659 |publisher=London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Prince's Armes in St. Paul's Church-Yard |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/legendofcaptainj00lloy/page/n5/mode/2up |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>
*Linguists consider it most plausible that ''Davy'' was inspired by [[Saint David]] of [[Wales]], whose name was often invoked by Welsh sailors, and ''Jones'' by the Biblical Jonah.<ref>{{cite web|title=August 22, 2014 Word of the Day: Davy Jones's Locker|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2014/08/22/|access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>