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Re: 1939 - what have you found?
« Reply #180 on: Sunday 10 April 16 10:34 BST (UK) »
If you do not know where someone was evacuated to on the 1939 try putting Evacuant or Evacuee in the occupation box and nothing else.

With the absence of a "relation" and "birthplace" column in 1939, the occupation is often the only clue we have as to how the household members are related.

I should mention that two of my evacuee relatives have "at school" as their occupation, so wouldn't show up using the method Guy suggested.
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Re: 1939 - what have you found?
« Reply #181 on: Thursday 14 April 16 20:02 BST (UK) »
I've not found a single child registered as "evacuee" though there are some mystery children in some houses, mostly redacted - and known children missing from some city households.

I have however found two adults named as "evacuees" - one with 3 redacted below her, presumably her children. The other is more interesting, a woman of 38, known to be childless, a Londoner found in her father-in-law's home village (Byfield, Northants) but with a couple not believed to be related. Her husband was not found - already in the services, like a lot of younger men?
 
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