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Mary Melita Downes/MacKenzie/Vandenberg/Brennan

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Andre

Andre Report 4 Feb 2025 12:16

Does anyone remember Mary Melita Downes/ MacKenzie /Vandenberg.

She was in the WRENS (45602) in Portsmouth between 1942-44

She lived in Beacon Cottage, Beacon Lane Southampton in the late forties. Also in Holly Hill Lane, Sarisbury I believe.

ANDRE BRENNAN SON OF MELITA

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 4 Feb 2025 14:07

Related thread, containing her address at the time of her death in 1960:

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/living_relatives/thread/1403608

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 4 Feb 2025 17:09

I didn’t realise that married women were allowed to join the WRNS.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 4 Feb 2025 21:24

Yet another address in 1955:

With Patrick H Brennan -

Melita M Brennan
in the Cambridgeshire, England, Electoral Registers, Burgess Rolls and Poll Books,1722-1966
Name Melita M Brennan
Event Type Electoral Registers
Residence Year 1955
Street Address Blue Cottage, Crow End
Residence Place Cambridgeshire, England

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 4 Feb 2025 21:41

Her marriage to Brennan was in Ireland as DOWNES

I don’t l]know what makes OP think the man named on his birth certificate wasn’t his father……..

No sign anywhere that Melita married that one