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Title: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - list closes @ 9:30am Tuesday 10 Nov GMT
Post by: dawnsh on Sunday 08 November 15 14:09 GMT (UK)
Hi all

I am planning to go to TNA at Kew on Tuesday 10th November.

I know that there have been a couple of look-up requests already but if you want clarification of an entry post away and I'll do by best for you.

Please give the name of the person you are after, their date of birth to the best of your knowledge if you have it or their age in 1939, their possible address or the "Borough/District" from the free search and the reference number from the URL at the top of the page (I'm aware that the 'hover' function mentioned a few days ago may not be working as it used to.)

This is a reference for my great grandfather, (Percy Sherry if you want to have a look for him) the equivalent numbers I need from you are in red

search.findmypast.co.uk/record/locked?id=tna%2fr39%2f0950%2f0950e%2f009%2f26

I'll be there all day and will do as many as I can.

If I'm allowed to take photos of screen shots I will do, if not, it will be transcriptions.

Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Deirdre784 on Sunday 08 November 15 14:28 GMT (UK)
Will you be able to see the closed entries, or only what we can see if we unlock the record?

Eg in my enthusiasm on day 1, I opened the record of my husband's great grandmother only to see her and 7 blocked entries. All the children have died but since 1991. We have the death certificate for my husband's grandfather so will send that off, but it would be interesting to see the whole entry.
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Treetotal on Sunday 08 November 15 14:31 GMT (UK)
Hi Dawn....How kind of you...I am curious about this record as 

 Frederick W Groom 1869 _  Kingston Upon Hull - East Yorkshire
Frederick W Groom and 1 more person are on this record
 
3 more people who are officially closed

3125d 002

I know that Fred lost his wife leaving 3 Children in 1933 but despite trying all variants and giving DOB +/- 2 years... I have failed to find them so I am reluctant to pay for this household if the locked people are not who I expect...All three are now deceased but the oldest child only passed away on October 21st this year.

Thanks for any help or advice.

Carol




Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: dawnsh on Sunday 08 November 15 14:35 GMT (UK)
Even at TNA, you can only view open records.
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: smudwhisk on Sunday 08 November 15 14:37 GMT (UK)
Dawn, if you got the time, could you possibly look at the following please as I'd be interested to know what her middle name was and also where she was residing because a play on the place keyword box isn't bringing up where we thought she would be.  A distant relative believes she could be his "old aunt Maggie" with whom they resided during the war after being evacuated but not until 1943 so his mother isn't on there with her.

Margaret A Wells born 1882
RG101/5732B/011/40
Rugby RD

Many thanks.
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Treetotal on Sunday 08 November 15 14:38 GMT (UK)
Oh...okay Dawn...Thanks...I wouldn't be able to see them anyway if they are the children as I only have a death certificate for my MIL  :-\
They weren't evacuated either.

Carol
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Deirdre784 on Sunday 08 November 15 14:39 GMT (UK)
Even at TNA, you can only view open records.

Thanks Dawn, I assumed so but thought it worth asking  ;D

Hope you have a successful day.
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Romilly on Sunday 08 November 15 15:03 GMT (UK)

Is the 1939 Register free to view at TNA Dawn?

Romilly. (Who's already used up all of her credits:-)
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Guy Etchells on Sunday 08 November 15 15:07 GMT (UK)

Is the 1939 Register free to view at TNA Dawn?

Romilly. (Who's already used up all of her credits:-)

Yes, the 1939 national Registration may be viewed free of charge at the National Archives at Kew.

Cheers
Guy
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: 3sillydogs on Sunday 08 November 15 15:17 GMT (UK)

Thanks for the offer, if you have time would be appreciated

 Barkovity Household Cardiff C.B., Glamorganshire, Wales
   First name(s)    Last name(s)    Birth year
   Hetty    Pallatt (Burke,Berkovity)    1914
Emanuel Barkovity and 2 more people are on this record
2 more people who are officially closed
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/locked?id=tna%2fr39%2f7262%2f7262a%2f009%2f39 the link

I am a little confused Hetty Burke married Harris Tobias Pallatt in 1948.  I can't find him on the register unless he is one of the closed ones mentioned although he died in 1975.  Perhaps they were boarding prior to him goind to war although I can't find him amongst service records on Ancestry.
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Romilly on Sunday 08 November 15 15:25 GMT (UK)
Is the 1939 Register free to view at TNA Dawn?
Romilly. (Who's already used up all of her credits:-)
Yes, the 1939 national Registration may be viewed free of charge at the National Archives at Kew.
Cheers
Guy

Many thanks Guy.

One further query... are people who live abroad not redacted? (The only one of my Grandmother's children who appears with her on the Register is a son who has lived in Australia since the 1970's). He's still alive, (86 yrs old) but the rest of his siblings are redacted.

Romilly
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: cein on Sunday 08 November 15 15:44 GMT (UK)
Hello dawnsh,
I am grateful for your kind offer.  I would like to find out the address of my Grandmother.  Her name was Florence A. Marsh, born in 1888 and living in Portslade-by-Sea, U.D., Sussex in 1939.  The reference number is RG101/2526D/022/28.
I thought that she was living in Abinger Road but when I looked up that address she was not.  My Mom was living with her but she is officially closed although she died in 2000.
Thank you again and I look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Cein
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Guy Etchells on Sunday 08 November 15 16:40 GMT (UK)
Is the 1939 Register free to view at TNA Dawn?
Romilly. (Who's already used up all of her credits:-)
Yes, the 1939 national Registration may be viewed free of charge at the National Archives at Kew.
Cheers
Guy

Many thanks Guy.

One further query... are people who live abroad not redacted? (The only one of my Grandmother's children who appears with her on the Register is a son who has lived in Australia since the 1970's). He's still alive, (86 yrs old) but the rest of his siblings are redacted.

Romilly

No all the living people are suppossed to be redacted but as with all large databases some slip through
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Rogier on Sunday 08 November 15 17:08 GMT (UK)
Thanks for kind offer Dawn

tna/r39/1014/1014c/011/16

Robert C Alburn
1903
East Ham

Wife is Florence M Alburn 1901 East Ham

Thank you in anticipation
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Scrumper on Sunday 08 November 15 18:49 GMT (UK)
Hi Dawn, I'd be really grateful if you could look up my dad, W B Davies.   Not sure if I'll find anything out, but worth a look.

tna r39/5602/5602e/003/04
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: sallyduk on Sunday 08 November 15 20:16 GMT (UK)
Dawn,  Thanks for your kind offer

I would be very grateful if you could search the following:-

Olga Vera Mowforth (nee Oates)
Born 5 Mar 1918

Rotherham C B

search.findmypast.co.uk/record/locked?id=tna%2fr39%2f3511%2f3511d%2f009%2f07
(TNA - Piece 3511d Item 009)

Possibly living with parents Thomas Oates & Florence Oates (nee Dobby) & sister Mary Heslop Oates born 1923.

Thanking you in anticipation

Sally
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Alan b on Sunday 08 November 15 20:44 GMT (UK)
A few from me:

Jeanne Hamlin born 6 June 1870 Reference f6652 f014 - Samford R.D., Suffolk
Jessie Hazelwood born 25 April 1870 Reference f6634b f005 Deben R.D., Suffolk

Many thanks Dawn.
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Nanna52 on Sunday 08 November 15 22:34 GMT (UK)
I would love it if you have time to try to solve my problem.  I am having trouble finding my cousin Horace Thomas Mabley Vincent born 19 Dec 1888 in Illogan/Redruth, Cornwall.
I have found a Kathleen Vincent (his wife's name) at 9 Ella Street Hull, the address they were living at in 1942 when she died.

Ref: RG101/3150E/003/32

But it has her birth year as 1879 and everything else says about 1892.

I have also found a Horace Vincent born 1888 in Kent.

Ref: RG101/1790E/019/14

With a Kathleen A Vincent born 1889.

I would appreciate if you could check to see if you think either are my cousin.  I don't mind paying for the household, but do object to wasting my money on incorrect households. 
Thanking you for your kind offer.
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Clarkey500 on Monday 09 November 15 10:12 GMT (UK)
Very kind offer dawn, thank you! :)

I would like to know about this household in particular, especially (if possible), their address and membership in the military:
RG101/7088A/010/18 (to 25) Taunton R.D.

Joseph E Clarke
Florence E Clarke (her middle name was Mabel, so I guess it's just a mistranscription)
Alfred W Clarke
- 4 People retracted
Ann Dibble (Florence's mother)
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: JayG on Monday 09 November 15 12:23 GMT (UK)
Hi Dawn

I'd be very grateful if you could check

Robert N Petch
Born 1911
Nuneaton MB
5682I/008/39

Thanks in advance
Jay
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - post them here
Post by: Aulus on Monday 09 November 15 14:10 GMT (UK)
Hi Dawn,

I would be very grateful if you could put the Hay household of Ilford on your list.

Ref 1098c/014

Particularly interested in Louisa, who may be my mum's Auntie Lou, but wasn't my mum's aunt as I know who all my mum's aunts were. I've been searching for her for years: I vaguely remember visiting her in the early 70s with my mum, and she was a witness at my parents' marriage. But not knowing who she actually was (my mum's dead, and was an only child), I've been up several blind alleys.

Many thanks

A
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - list closes @ 9:30am Tuesday 10 Nov GMT
Post by: iolaus on Monday 09 November 15 19:22 GMT (UK)
I'd also like to find out about my great-grandfather
Joseph Henry Simpson born 1882

I think he's 6010g 005

With him is his wife Betsy and a locked person
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - list closes @ 9:30am Tuesday 10 Nov GMT
Post by: KarenM on Monday 09 November 15 20:18 GMT (UK)
Hi Dawn,

How kind of you to offer to do this!

I would love to see the following for my great grandfather.

Joseph Gandley, born 1880
Acton, M.B., Middlesex, England
Ref: RG101/0664I/006/25

Thank you
Karen
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - list closes @ 9:30am Tuesday 10 Nov GMT
Post by: crozier on Monday 09 November 15 20:44 GMT (UK)
anything you can find on George Harry Nye Peters, born Hendon, married Grace Elizabeth Mackenzie. Lance Sergeant Essex Regiment, died 1928. Father born Lewes Sussex. I am especially interested to know if he had any overseas war service. Many thanks, C
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - list closes @ 9:30am Tuesday 10 Nov GMT
Post by: carol80 on Monday 09 November 15 21:24 GMT (UK)
Hope i am not to late. As my mother  and grandparents died here in NZ the details of where they were living will not be on the register. So could you look up my great grandparent's please?
Edwin Stonehouse  Ref RG101/2801G/006/17
Mary Stonehouse Ref Rg101/2801G/006/18
Many Many Thanks if you are able to do this as i see you have a lot.
                                  Carol (in NZ)
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - list closes @ 9:30am Tuesday 10 Nov GMT
Post by: dawnsh on Monday 09 November 15 22:15 GMT (UK)
Hi crozier

I'm sorry, but you haven't posted an address or reference number for me to check, but if he died in 1928, he won't be on the 1939 register.

Dawn
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - list closes @ 9:30am Tuesday 10 Nov GMT
Post by: Stuart273 on Monday 09 November 15 23:25 GMT (UK)
Hi Dawn
If you get time I'd be very interested in the Baker household of Newcastle upon Tyne:

James H W Baker (b1909) - especially if it might say what his middle initials stand for and any other details please - and Mary Baker

2937a 010

Many thanks
Stuart
Title: Re: 1939 Register look-up requests at TNA - list closes @ 9:30am Tuesday 10 Nov GMT
Post by: dawnsh on Tuesday 10 November 15 21:06 GMT (UK)
Hello all

I have done as many of the look-ups as I could.

I took photos of the screens to the best of my ability based on my camera, the lighting conditions at TNA and the state of the pages.

If you posted a request here, could you please send me a pm with your email address so that I can send you the images.

There is a poster at TNA which says that images of screens taken at TNA cannot be publicly published on the internet.

Dawn