1939.....amazing what you cannot find

[Siamese Girl]

I can't find my grandmother, despite knowing perfectly well where she was living in 1939.

Carole

[GrahamSimons]

I can't find my grandmother, despite knowing perfectly well where she was living in 1939.
Carole

I've found a surprisingly large number of people away from home in the Register; and a surprisingly large number of spouses apart from each other - often with relatives. And quite a few evacuees. Are these possibilities? Or is she still redacted for some reason?

[ScouseBoy]

Try searching by just using her date of birth.

[ScouseBoy]

I can't find my grandmother, despite knowing perfectly well where she was living in 1939.

Carole

  How old was she in 1939?

[Siamese Girl]

I've had another wider sweep and have found her, and my mum and aunt - not where I expected. I knew 1939 was when they moved from Thame to Rochester - my grandfather had already made the move -  but they weren't at either place, they were at High Wycombe, presumably in temporary lodgings.

The moral from this is that although you may have grown up in a family where you've heard all the stories about the family so often you can repeat them word for word, there's still something new to learn 

Carole

[clairec666]

It's not just child evacuees who are away from home in 1939, I've found a few adults who have moved out of London... mostly married women who return to their family in the countryside while their husbands stayed in the city.

[Millmoor]

I found my grandfather in Bishop Auckland - I had expected to find him in Gateshead where he was a teacher. I think that he, and my grandmother, went with the evacuees from his school.

William

[ScouseBoy]

Merchant Navy officers and men (not on leave)  would usually not be listed.

[andrewalston]

I've found a family from Runcorn where at least 3 children have been evacuated to addresses on the outskirts of Blackpool (the others are no doubt redacted). Father is at home working, but mother is staying in a boarding house in central Blackpool, no doubt trying to ensure that her brood had settled in OK.

Such arrangements were probably unusual. Most places in the countryside would not have beds available for visiting mums.