Lydia Clay/Golay ??
Looking for the ancestry of Lydia Clay who was born in La
Sarraz, Canton Vaud, Switzerland in 1835.Her death Certificate says that her mother was Jeanne Marie Monod, and her father was Jacques Clay,but my searches of data bases for Canton Vaud do not reveal the births of any "Clay"s in that Canton.It maybe that Clay is the angicisation of Golay,as there is a reference to the birth of a Lydia Golay to a Jeanne Marie Monod and a Jacques Benedict Golay.
It is a tradition in the family that Lydia worked as a Nanny in the USA for a few years before returning to UK and marrying William Alfred Davies in Liverpool in 1860.They had a number of children, some of whom took on the middle name of Clay or Cley.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Peter. NQld, Australia