Last name | Brown |
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First names | Mona Legard |
Known as | Mona |
Married name | Algeo |
Gender | Female |
Born | 1901 |
Died | 1966 |
Father | Walter Brown |
Mother | Alice Smith |
Siblings | Kathleen Brown, Alice Brown, Douglas Brown, Nonie Brown, Elsie Brown |
Partners | Tom Algeo (1926) |
Children | Pat Algeo, Tom Algeo, Junie Algeo, Dougie Algeo |
Realm | MO |
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Before Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, Mona had fallen in love with a British officer named Gordon. When Gordon left Ireland with his regiment, he promised to write but Mona never received any letters. Years later she happened to be going through some desk drawers when she found the letters from Gordon which had been secretly hidden by her father (Reverend Brown) who didn't approve of her relationship with an Englishman. Note that her fourth child was named Gordon Douglas (but known as Dougie). Pat, Mona’s eldest daughter, remembers Mona getting a telegram informing her of Gordon’s death (sometime in the mid-1930s) Mona then fainting. At the time of her marriage (1925) her address was given as Lack Rectory, Kesh. |