Evacuees

[philipsearching]

A local newspaper for the area around Bethnal Green  is the Docklands and East London Advertiser http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/contact-us
Most local newspapers like "human interest" stories, so they may be willing to print an article asking their readers for information about where children were evacuated.

Or you could try:
Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
277 Bancroft Road, London E1 4DQ
Phone: 020 7364 1290
e-mail: localhistory@towerhamlets.gov.uk
website: http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/leisure_and_culture/local_history/local_history__archives/local_history__archives.aspx
All the best
Philip

[Betty19]

Thank you, Philip
She is giving me all the info today and I am looking forward to helping her .
Pretty sure he went to Oxford.
He had a brother who went with him but they separated the children  , and he never saw his brother again.
 The family was told he died of the Measles age abt 7.

The other brother made it back but died some time ago.

[Rena]

How awful for the little boy and his family to be separated at a time of illness.  I had measles during the war and apparently my parents thought they would lose me.  Thank goodness we now have modern vaccines.   I've found a chart showing the number of cases and deaths caused by measles during WWII (see below) and underneath I've pasted two recent years to demonstrate the difference.


Year       Notifications    Total Deaths
1940       409,521    857
1941       409,715    1,145
1942       286,341    458
1943       376,104    773
1944       158,479    243
1945       446,796    729
1946       160,402    204

2010       2,235    0
2011       2,355    1

[Betty19]

Hi Rena
Great picture on your profile

That is a huge number of deaths
thank god for vaccines, my son has just had one for Meningitis at school.

[barryd]

An interesting article on evacuees from Bethnal Green. From WW2 People's War. Originally published by Lilian Henrietta Brooks and reproduced noncommercialy.

Also a regular child evacuee would be too young to be available on the 1939 Indexes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/25/a3437525.shtml

[Betty19]

Cheers Barry,
Just been reading an article about the horrendous tube disaster in Bethnal green in 1943 it was a witness account .
On the Stairway to Heaven Memorial.


Thanks for the link

[Blue70]

An interesting article on evacuees from Bethnal Green. From WW2 People's War. Originally published by Lilian Henrietta Brooks and reproduced noncommercialy.

Also a regular child evacuee would be too young to be available on the 1939 Indexes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/25/a3437525.shtml

In this case the person concerned died in childhood so their details should be visible on the 1939 Register at FindMyPast.


Blue

[nestagj]

What about the school minute books/ records / governors reports- they should be available at the local archive or possibly the national archive - I think there are some on either FindMyPast or ancestry but I'm not sure if they are too early tho'.

I have recently been reading a lot about the War in London during the blitz both fiction and non fiction and from  what I have read it was the WRVS who were very involved in organising the evacuation with help on the scene from the WI and other Women's Groups

If they believe he died there should be a death record - or is it a common name. 

Hope you find the information

Nesta

[Betty19]

Thanks Nesta
If that is your interest, have you read the accounts of the Bethnal Green tube disaster during the blitz .
It sent a shiver up my spine and made me think of Hillsborough .
Cheers