National Insurance/Tax Records

[Plummiegirl]

Reading one of the other posts here reminded me of a query which I had never asked before, so here goes.

If I know my g/grandfathers dob/dom/dod and his home addresses for most of this time, can I obtain any records of his empoyers tax/national insurance records.

As he was a journeyman working in Saville Row, I believe that he worked for most of the establishments there at one time or another.  But do not know which ones for definate, would I be able to obtain his tax/employment records from HM Customs & Excise?

Has anyone ever tried?

[Nick29]

They probably don't store them that long, but there's little harm in trying.  I think your main problem might be in finding someone in the tax office that would know the answer.

[stanmapstone]

What is the date are you interested in? National Insurance only came in 1911. The National Insurance Act of 1911 set up the country's first unemployment benefit and national health insurance schemes.

Stan

[Plummiegirl]

Hi the dates would be well within the mid 20th century, he did not die until 1940something (off the top of my head cannot recall exact year)

[slheys]

I have been wondering if I could access NI records. 

Alice Ann Heys had her daughter Annie at the Croydon Workhouse Infirmary in 1913.

The Workhouse papers show she used her NI contributions to pay for her confinement. She gives her NOK as her the brother who had been in London for the 1911 census, but states he was by then in Glasgow with the Scottish Rifles.  When she was discharged it was “to friends”.
   
Alice Ann had by then lost both her parents and her stepmother Emma Heys had gone back to her nursing profession to support herself and Alice Ann’s young half brother (who was sent back to her stepmother’s family in Somerset).

I haven’t been able to find a marriage/death for Alice Ann Heys nor for her daughter Annie Elizabeth Heys.  There are marriages/deaths but not in southern England but I suppose there is the possibility that Alice Ann went to her Heys Aunts and Uncles living in Rochdale but then it’s difficult to determine which Alice Ann might be ours as the spelling Heys is more frequent in Lancashire.

I have looked at the Scottish BMDs. 

I wondered if Alice Ann Heys's NI contributions/payments might have tracked her movements.

[tashacat01]

To slheys

I may be able to help your search. My mother was Annie Elizabeth Heys, born in Croydon on 17 September 1913. You would not have been able to trace her as she always mis-spelt her surname as Hayes.