Metropolitan Police Records Online

[caribou]

Hi BarnabyP,

You just get better and better!!!

Thanks for the info.

Bob.

[jeaster1]

Just want to say that you have saved me so much time!
Thanks 

[ian-nz]

Hi

Can someone help me please. I seem to be going round in circles and getting now where.

I am looking for information on John Jacob Driesen born in 1831 in Middlesex. On the 1851 census his occupation is policeman. On the 1861 census occupation is police sergeant and when his son married in 1873 his father's occupation was police inspector. John Driesen died in 1867 aged only 36 years. Was his death work related. He was married to Mary and they were living in Stepney in 1861.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Pauline

[BarnabyP]

Hello Pauline.

There aren't any records for between 1857 and 1869 in the selection that I have photographed and made available on flickr. If he was in the force before this time then there could be information about his joining. I've had a quick look in book MEPO 4/334 of the Alphabetical Registers of Joiners but I was unable to find him in there under D. I've had a look in the pension information that I have here as well and couldn't see anything on there - as I would have suspected that he might have had a pension.

Is it possible that he was working in the City of London Police?

BarnabyP

[ian-nz]

Hi BarnabyP

Thank you so much for checking on that information for me. It looks like he was not with that branch of the police force so I will now follow up on the possibility that he may have been with the City of London Police.

Many many thanks for your help

Pauline

[Ronthea]

I would love some help. My husband's grandfather was William J H Turner born in Derbyshire 1869. He moved to Clerkenwell, Exmouth Street, now Exmouth Market, Finsbury, Clerkenwell and joined the Metropolitan Police. He was on the 1901 census as a Sergnt with the Metropolitan Police and then according to my father in law, (dec) he was killed whilst on duty in Dec 1913. I cannot find any record and would love to know if this was true or if he just died. If anyone can give me any information I will be very grateful. Thanks 

[BarnabyP]

Hello Ronthea

I have had a quick look and there appears to be a William J. H. Turner in the force. He left in September of 1913 as seen on page 122 of MEPO 4/344 in the Register of Leavers. I have had a look in the pension information that I have and this officer appears to have been pensioned. The information on the pension matches what you provided. His pension number is 20,689 and it can be found in MEPO 21/42 at TNA. It has his place of birth as Eckington, Derby and D.O.B. as 25 May, 1868. His address on leaving was 33 Frankfurt Road, Hern Hill, SE.

Unfortunately he joined in a period for which there are no registers or indexes. But the two above documents should more than compensate hopefully.

I can't see that he was killed in the performance of his duties though.

Hope that this helps, BarnabyP

[Ronthea]

Thank you so much for all the information . As we have been living in Australia we are trying to find out as much as possible about my husbands relations, of which he knows very little! We are living here now and so have time to do the research into his family. This is a great addition to his family tree. Many thanks again.

[richarde1979]

BarnapyP

Many thanks for this, I have found my great grandfather in your records. I found him last year as a P.C at Camberwell Station on the 1911 Census, which was suprise as I always though he'd spent all his early life in the army. I now know from your record he was in the met 1910-1913 (He was in the Army Militia 1906-1909, Regular Army 1914-1920..so it was evidently a fairly brief sojourn in the Police..perhaps it didn't suit him as much as the army!)

Anyway I do have another mystery, perhaps you can help with...perhaps not, but thought no harm in asking.

My late great grandmother, a Londoner, had a photo amongst her posessions of a Policeman. I have recently shown it to an 84 year old aunt, the last of the generaiton still with us, and she thinks it shows her uncle Alfred Ernest Woodhouse who was a career policeman.

I think I have found him in your lists:

Division E SPS 84123 Alfred Ernest Woodhouse  06-13-1898 to 16-06-1924

Forgive my ignorance, but I am unsure what the rank SPS means?

Would it match the man in the photograph we have?:



Also if yourself or anyone has any idea roughly when the photo might date from would be much appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.