Hello Kathryn
I am so pleased to hear from you confirming my belief about Davison. My mother told me tales when I was small about her Uncle Davy and his wife Sarah (who was a hunchback because she fell down some stairs in a drunken state?).
I have a copy of Davison's birth certificate, born 24/25* February 1881 to Mary Guy, no father given, in the Union Workhouse, Bishop Auckland. I haven't been able to find any record of a Matthew Davison Guy?
*the registrar wrote twenty fourth and then 25?
Mary Guy had a sad life, her first marriage, to John Craggs was bigamy, with my grandfather Joseph Guy Craggs being born to her and John. Her "husband" had three "wives" on the go and appeared before the Durham Assizes on bigamy charges. However, he got off! Mary then had Davison, who ended up with George and Jane Guy in the 1891 Census. 1911 he is now Matthew Davison Guy.
Who was the father James Douglass Knox Guy?
I hope I haven't confused you with the above. I'm confused just reading it.
Bye.
Elissa