I'm not sure how much information I can include on here but I think I may have found out more information about Douglas Sandels - the illegitimate son of my husband's grandmother that she had at 14. I posted another thread on here about how it was believed that he went to family to be raised. We also think now that he spent some time in the Army, possibly National Service and may have spent time overseas. My mother-in-law remembers a young man visiting and recovering from malaria and she believes this was Douglas.
She has now spoken to her older sister and she is sure that Douglas went to live with his paternal grandparents and that his father was the son of a family who lived in the same block/tennament as the Sandels family in West Ham. Now the paternal name we believe is Malise or Mulise (pronounced malishe).
Now I think that I may have discovered the family in question - whislt the Sandels family were still living in Sussex in 1911 there was a family living in West Ham with the surname Mellish. This is now where I'm not sure how much information I can post because I don't know if the person is still alive or not but needless to say I've found a marriage record that matches the two names together. However I'm now trying to find a birth record between 1910 and 1932 for the first name and the surname. Could anybody help me try and locate one? If I can't find one then this could be the missing son perhaps. I hope that i haven't infringed any rules by typing the above.
Obviously it's still going to have to wait until the 1921 Census before I can see if I can find a link between the 2 families but at least its a start.
Thanks
