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===Martha Emily Davies (1871 – 1963)===

<u>Hoole Resident and Companion</u>

 

Martha was the first daughter born to John Henry and Catherine, arriving on 13th January 1871, whilst the family were living in Seller Street. In the family, and to close friends, her nickname was “Beam”. Martha never married, despite being proposed to by her first cousin, Arthur Davies, who she turned down without hesitation. As she would later say, “''I was too particular''”.

 

Martha lived a full life, growing up with her brothers and sisters in Seller Street and moving with her mother and father and other members of the family, including her brother Charles, to Hamilton Street, Hoole, in 1895. Some thirty years later she and her sister Edith Leet (1875 – 1950) moved to Charles’s house at Oaklands where Martha lived until Charles died in 1952. She was her brother’s companion and housekeeper, managing all the domestic affairs as well as engaging in the Hoole community. She was left Oaklands, and all of Charles’s effects when he died and could have chosen to live almost anywhere. She took the decision to leave Hoole in 1953 and move to Alsager, where her younger sister Georgie (Annie Georgina) lived with family. She passed away in 1963, aged ninety-two, in Buxton.

 

[[File:DF18 Edith Clarissa Davies.jpg|left|thumb|183x183px|''<small>Edith Clarissa Davies 1875 to 1950</small>'']]