For some reason, Henry worked on the legal separation of Alois Hitler (Adolf's half-brother) and his wife Bridget Dowling.
Alois had come to England after the First World War and was sent by a London job agency to Dublin, where he worked as a waiter.
In his spare time, however, he posed as a wealthy German restaurateur, and caught the eye of the teenage Bridget.
They ran away to London to marry, and within the year were in Liverpool, where their child was born.
The marriage certificate was found in our family papers by a cousin. In 1977, I sent it to the Times newspaper to see if I could find out more information, and at the time, the fact that Alois and Bridget had lived in Liverpool, lent credence to long-standing rumours that Adolf Hitler visited the city before his rise to power.
Henry died in 1928, five years before Hitler came to power.
Anthony Prossor of Cashel, Portsea and Southampton.
