The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.2 | Sept 2023

Searchers

‘The Mystery’

Way, way back I was searching for my birth Father and thanks to DNA I have traced him. Although born in Scotland he left to join the Navy in 1939. He served during the war, left about 1958, I think, and then worked in Portsmouth Dockyard. Interestingly, the granddaughter (who is now 65) of the lady he married in 1961, has informed me that he never lost his Scots accent ginger hair or freckles, and that he

used to drink in the pub in Southsea, called The Mystery . Are there any members who worked in the dockyard, or anyone who drank in The Mystery pub who recognise any of his details? He died in Pains Road, Southsea. I would be ever so grateful for anyone at all, who has ever heard of him, to contact me. Priscilla Breakspeare (Member #7432) priscillabreakspear0@gmail.com

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