1939 - what have you found?

[ShaunJ]

From 1946, Post War Credits were repayable, subject to certain conditions, at age 65 for men and age 60 for women. From 1954 they were repayable in case of death or bankruptcy. From 1972 they were made generally repayable on production of a certificate. 

[LizzieL]

So my grandfather might have got his money back when he turned 65.

[Redroger]

Sounds as though my Dad did too.

[LizzieL]

Thank you that makes sense. I do remember my father getting a repayment of Post war Credits - big panic to find Certificate!

A slight aside, but it was a happy ending - he did find his Certificate all right. But with it was a clothing coupon book, with some unused coupons - that caused a rumpus with his sisters and mother even after all those years!

[kerryb]

I found my grandparents and great grandparents, no surprises, they are where they should be, except one of my grandfather's is still officially closed, despite having died in 1993 and I will have to pay for a death certificate to get them to open it, despite it being their mistake, after all they have access to death records.

I know he is where he should be though, so am not going to bother because the next entry is my grandmother and she is not showing her surname just ditto, so it has to be grandad above under the big black banner!!!

Maybe, maybe not by 1939 many households had evacuees living with them, much would depend on the location of the house

Cheers
Guy

Hi Guy

I know my other grandparents had evacuees, not sure about this granny, shall have to ask my dad.  However in this instance, I believe it is grandad because the blacked out line is above my grandmother and her surname is ditto, therefore the blacked out person has to share the surname of my grandmother, and I deduced was head of the household because he/she came first.

Kerry

[clairec666]

I've finally found my great-great-grandfather, after a lot of fruitless searching. He lived in the Croydon area, but I found him in Lancashire, living with his sister and her husband, which has helped me find where they died (with the help of probate records).
I can't be sure whether he was just visiting his sister, or was "evacuated" out of the London area, like his grandchildren. He was in his 70s at the start of the war, and died just after the end of the war (back in Croydon).

Shows that you shouldn't give up on searching, they might turn up eventually

[dawnsh]

To give others hope!

I visted Kew just after the 1939 was launched.

I was looking at the address my family had moved into in 1915 and were still at in 1980.

In 1939 3 lines were redacted.

Yesterday 1 of those lines had been undeacted. My uncle was born October 1915 so his record has now been released without asking.

[coombs]

I found another elderly ancestor sibling who died after 1839 and born before 1860. Eliza Jay nee Stokes, she was born in 1856. She is interesting because her sister, my ancestor isone of those whose birth appears to have gone unregistered. Their parents wed in 1839 and the sister was born in about 1852 but died in 1932, 7 years before the 1939 census 1939 register.

[kerryb]

To give others hope!

I visted Kew just after the 1939 was launched.

I was looking at the address my family had moved into in 1915 and were still at in 1980.

In 1939 3 lines were redacted.

Yesterday 1 of those lines had been undeacted. My uncle was born October 1915 so his record has now been released without asking.

Thanks Dawn, that's good to know.

My grandfather was born March 1916 so I don't have long to wait.

Kerry