WW2 evacuees to RUTHIN

[brigidmac]

My grandmother travelled with her 2 youngest daughters to Ruthin in 1940 or 1941 from Wallesay 
probably by train . The eldest daughter HAZEL JONES. b 1927 went to  the grammar school in OSWESTRY

Nana Maisie  stayed in a local house with youngest daughter Sylvia JONES 
It was somewhere near the railway ( no longer there ? )

my mother was taken in by a different family ...would it be possible to find which primary  school they went to

any idea what street this is?


in 1943 my mother transferred to Oswestry and was boarded by various 
families

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=893453.0

[brigidmac]

sorry that picture isnt clear

first try was too large

my cousin thinks it might be Rhos street

mum.says there were paternal. relatives in Ruthin nearby but they didnt board with them .
i ll have to look thru.census and see who was there 

[brigidmac]

there is a newspaper article
thurs 24thOctober 1940
about Mrs Eva Pinion  from middlesex
being employed at Ruthin County Primary

she was to teach maths at. primary school  and physical training to boys at the grammar school

It was unusual for married women to work .Her husband was the military

She  may well have taught my aunt and mother

[brigidmac]

I love hearing stories of evacuees

A lady told me how welcoming people were to her family  when she had to leave Guernsey

Imagine taking in 2 women and 3children under 5 in a terraced house which ended up being for several years

[Yvie Tree]

Do you happen to know who the relatives are that were in Ruthin? I know Rhos St primary school and Ruthin Grammar School were both effectively on the same road.

The ancestor I'm researching (John Thomas Jones) and his wife ran the Anchor Inn which was at 1 Rhos St, and they had come from Birmingham to run the pub. So I do wonder whether they were involved with the evacuees at all, they didn't have children of their own.

[brigidmac]

They were JONES..mums  granfatther was s  Abiah roger JONES

There were marriages to other jones and certainly innkrrpeps who.looked after relatives children in the older generationsmosltrly in Flint  & llan mur

There is a thread about there children
No connection to Birmingam as far as I know the connections were all Birkenhead.

 https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=813834.msg7480052#msg7480052

Do you have a post about your John Thomas Jones ?.

He's not on the extensive tree of my mother