This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davies Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/HNR.2ACEB/1402 Message Board Post: Looking for relatives of Jessie Davies born in Manchester area in 1884. Her occupation was a pattern card maker. Davies is her maiden name. I do not know whether she ever married. She had a son, Arthur Davies in 1913 who died in 1915, a daughter, Dora Davies born in 1915 in Withington Workhouse and twins, Arthur and Harry in 1919 in Crumpsall Workhouse. All of the children are illegitimate. It was known that Jessie had other children in the 1920s but I do not know their names. Dora and the twins went into Styal Cottage Homes, Cheshire. On the Styal Homes records their surname is listed as Davies/Clinton, but I have no idea where the name Clinton has come from. There is no mention of the father on any of the birth certificates and I cannot find a marriage of a Jessie Davies to a man with the surname Clinton. I am looking for information regarding Jessie Davies before and after 1884 (year of birth). As for Jessie's daughter, Dora, apart from her birth, I don't know any more information about her or if she ever married, as she lost touch with the twins years ago. I have come across a death of a Dora Codd in Trafford in 1991 whose birth date is the same date as my Dora, but unfortunately, I cannot find a marriage of a Dora Davies to a man with the surname 'Codd' so don't know whether this is my Dora or not. If anyone has any info, please contact me as I keep coming up to brick walls.