MacNAMARA, Helga Winifred
As Olive Helga Winifred McCormick, she was born at St Peters, Jersey, Channel Islands, on 9 December 1906, younger daughter of Andrew Louis Charles McCormick (1870-2 May 1943), an officer in the Royal Engineers, and his wife Winifred Anne Sarah, née Fairweather (5 June 1872-6 September 1967), who married at Jalandar, Bengal on 26 November 1895. In 1911, Helga was a 4-year-old, together with her 38-year-old mother, who was born at Simla, India, and her sibling sister, 7-year-old Sheila, were boarding at Beaumont, St Peters, Jersey, the home of farmer John Hamling and his family. Known as Helga, she married at Kensington, London in 1935, Playford (Pip) Rawdon MacNamara (2 September 1902-24 January 1994), a Brigadier in the Indian Army. A member and exhibitor at the Beccles Society pf Artists 1977-1986. Olive Helga Winifred MacNamara died at Wood Farm, Bruisyard Road, Peasenhall, Suffolk on 21 January 1986.