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I live in Newcastle and Have a fair knowledge about Maurice Howard Davies's family in this area.  I have a limited amount about Maurice Edward Davies and the Burkes.  I recently had an email from someone who I think is descended from another brother of Maurice Howard.   "George"?  The last George Davies in our part of the family died in World War 1 but the name Howard has continued right through to one of my grandchildren.

Roland Davies

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Fred/tradelin,

I've made some changes/additions to my post above about George Henry MOTT and Allegra Haidee CHARNOCK, and their descendants.

My (1st cousin twice removed) Elizabeth Emily (or Emily Elizabeth) DAVIES and her husband  Melbourne Charnock Delamotte MOTT did not have children (her death certificate, under issue, reads "Not any").

From searching the Web in the distant past, I had been aware that the MOTT family were newspaper proprietors
An uncle of mine (no longer with us) had once said to my niece that there were relatives called MOTT who were newsagents in Essendon (that's how I found Melbourne Charnock Delamotte MOTT some years back and, with such wonderful names, how could I resist following Melbourne's family up further) - perhaps that's what Melbourne Charnock Delamotte did for a living, or perhaps it was a confusion with Elizabeth Emily (DAVIES) MOTT's father, Maurice Edward DAVIES, who was a Newsagent in Essendon (a suburb of Melbourne).  Given that my Uncle was born in 1916, and Melbourne had died in 1915, that seems possible - though another possibility might be that the widowed Elizabeth Emily/Emily Elizabeth (DAVIES) MOTT ran her father's newsagency after her father's death in 1926; now that I've downloaded her death cert and have a specific date of death, I must look in the 1951 Melbourne newspapers for notices.

Are the Victorian MOTTs connected to your wife's MOTTs - or just a peripheral part of your one-name study.

Regards,

JAP

I am new to this and spotted my great great grandfather's name Maurice Edward Davies.  His son Maurice Howard Davies became a successful businessman in Newcastle NSW and apparently died before his father in 1917. Maurice Edward's grandson George was killed in 1918 in ww1.

RolandDavies