The way Im thinking is that my mother was born 1956 and it was mentioned/known that Valdis' mother (who my mother was named after) had already died by then. Valdis had married in Jan 1956 with none of his Swedish family or friends present and we know he didnt correspond with anyone over there either, or certainly not from 1956 onwards. Before marriage he was at Sherwood settlement hostel (for foreign workers) but they havent kept records. When Valdis originally came over just after WW2, he arrived in London (cant see him on electoral rolls), then returned to Sweden. Then came back over for good, settling in Notts. (Poss arrived at Hull?) There are many reasons why he may have gone back home, maybe a failed relationship or disillusioned with life in England, but I did think that it may have been the death of his mother because she probably died in that time period. He was born 1926 and she died by 1956 so she probably wasn't elderly unless she had him late in life. I cant know for sure she was in Sweden when she died but its more than likely, she had remarried a Swedish man after her husbands death who treated Valdis very badly and packed him off to boarding school. I cant imagine her going back to Latvia and Im thinking she was half Swedish because of the DNA test I had, also the name Aleksander is more native to Latvia wheras Annette is more popular in Sweden than Latvia.
Ive just emailed a west Latvian newspaper that's local to the Navy base. Which site has the Swedish death database, I may be looking in the wrong place within a site?