Photo #113585
Last Name: Meddes
First Name: Sally
Middle Name:
Subject's City: Portland
Subject's State: ME
Subject's County: Cumberland
Subject's Country: United States
Date: 1921-1940
Photographer: Wight
Photographer's City: Portland
Photographer's State: ME
Nee:
Type**: B&W
Comments: Sally Meddes (Nee: ) | Portland ME United States | 1921-1940 | Comments: This negative envelope says, “Miss Sally Meddes, 305 Pine St #248.”
This identification has been one of my more confusing projects.
• I cannot find any references for Sally Meddes or Sarah Meddes.
• The 1934 Portland City Directory finds Theodore Meddes, a chef, living at 1 Shepley. He does not appear in the 1933 Directory. He appears in the 1935 Directory residing at 570½ Congress. The 1936 Directory indicates he moved to Bangor.
• There doesn’t appear to be a 305 Pine Street in Portland, nor is there any other street in Portland that ends in “_ine,” so doing a reverse lookup isn’t possible.
• The “Maine Marriage Index, 1892-1996” indicates that Celina Meddes married Stanton E Bartol on 2 September 1935. The confusing part is that the “Maine Marriage Index, 1892-1996” also reports Stanton E Bartol married Celina Bouchard on 2 September 1935. The 1940 Census indicates that Celina was 32 in 1940; thus, she would be about 26 in 1934 when the photo was probably taken.
I suspect that Celina S. Bouchard also went by “Sally.” My review of the sources provided in 5 Ancestry Public Trees indicated the following:
• Celina Bouchard was born on 6 September 1907 to Joseph and Anna (Regan) Bouchard in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
• Celine Bouchard appears in the 1910 Census as the 3-year-old daughter of Joseph and Annie Bouchard.
• Two trees report Celina’s name as Celina S Bouchard (Meddes). (One of them is a private tree.) The public tree doesn’t have any sources listed for the source of the “Meddes” surname, but possibly they or the private tree person have references for the Meddes surname.
Possibly, Celina married Theodore Meddes for a short time, divorced him then married Stanton Bartol in 1935. In any event, I will need confirmation regarding this possible scenario from family members.
Digital Image Only? YES
Everyone Listed In This Photo:
Sally Meddes
