Evacuees ww2

[ODP]

Hi. Wonder can anyone help with this query. I recall my mother Mary or Maureen Keaney telling the family that she was evacuated to Wales  with her sisters Kathleen and Margaret and brother John in the early years of WW2. My mother  the eldest sister born in 1921 would have been around 18/19 at that time. Evidently they were not evacuated for a long time as their father went to Wales to collect them and returned to the family home 39 Dryden street in Bootle.
Is there anyway their location in Wales could be searched along with dates.
Thanks Brian

[Viktoria]

I am not sure what records were made or kept for people other than children who were evacuated from school and records were made .Younger children like me were evacuated by parents ,in my case to my paternal grandmother’s family.
Records must have been kept because if the parents still in the towns were bombed and possibly killed ,the children must have become perhaps “ Wards of Court” and thus the responsibility of some authority or other.
Not sure about young adults.
I hope someone can give a better answer to your query .
Viktoria.

[tonepad]

They are at 39 Dryden Street in Bootle on the 1939 Register taken on 29 September, this means they were not evacuated in Operation Pied Piper which started on the 1st September.


Tony

[Jo6100]

18 or 19 seems quite old to be evacuated- could they have been with family? My mother, born 1924, was not evacuated from London although all her younger siblings and pregnant mother were sent to south Wales in 1940. Her mother died there in childbirth and the baby eventually ended up in a children’s home in Kent but my aunt wasn’t able to establish her route there. You would hope a newborn baby would be fostered but who knows. They were all reunited after the war apart from one sibling who sadly died in Wales. My grandfather couldn’t afford to bring him home to be buried after paying for my grandmother’s return for burial the previous year so he is buried in Newport.

[MollyC]

I have come across evacuees in a primary school admissions register.  They appeared to be living with cousins, so probably not part of the official evacuation process.

Added: These may go up to age 13 at that time.

[hanes teulu]

I checked Liverpool Archives catalogue. Seems it may be down for maintenance at the moment.

http://archive.liverpool.gov.uk/calmview/

Note the "http:" - indicates not secure.

[hanes teulu]

https://www.historyofliverpool.com/liverpool-evacuation/

[Andrew Tarr]

18 or 19 seems quite old to be evacuated- could they have been with family?

Yes it does.  I think some bright girls joined Bletchley Park at about that age to work the Bombe and help decrypting German messages ?