I am trying to fill in some "gap years" for a very elusive lady Mabel Moss DANES was born on 24/10/1891, daughter of Eleanor (nee MOSS) & Arthur DANES. Arthur DANES was born in Essex but living on the Isle of Wight when his daughter was born, Eleanor was born on the Isle of Wight. Arthur was a coachman who may have been employed at Barton House; he died at Rogate Sussex on 3/8/1900. Eleanor & Mabel were living with her father Cornelius MOSS at Norris Castle Farm at the time of the 1901 census. I then have a gap until Mabel turns up as Maisie Moss JACOBS, mother of Stanley Bernard JACOBS in London in 1921. The father is listed on Stanley's birth certificate as Henry JACOBS, traveller for a firm of stationers in London. On other family documents he is known as Michael Arthur Jacobs or Michael Henry Jacobs. The marriage indexes have been searched from 1903-1925 under Moss, Danes & variant spellings to no avail. I have also tried the electoral rolls for the London addresses her daughter recalls. Mabel cum Maisie claimed she changed her first name by deedpoll but was insistant that she had married Henry Jacobs who she said was Jewish. I am eager to try and find any information on Mabel/Maisie from 1901-1921, she worked as a hairdresser, wigmaker & hawker apparently. Anita _________________________________________________________________ You could be a genius! Find out by taking the IQ Test 2003. $5.50 (incl GST). Click here: http://sites.ninemsn.com.au/minisite/testaustralia/