Genealogy Chat

Josephine,

It is very unlikely that anyone who was born there will notice this thread.

It might be better starting a new one, called Willersley Castle, Matlock- if you are looking for babies (and their families) who were born there.

Do you mean people who lived in Enfield/Southgate just before or after 1944?

Did your mother ever mention any names?

More than 4000 babies were born between 1940 and 1946.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willersley_Castle

Interesting thread :-)

I don't know if your London district depended on where in Britain you were evacuated, but my father lived in Marylebone and he was evacuated with his school (on 1 September '39) to a small village in Buckinghamshire.

I know the WWII evacuation movement was called Operation Pied Piper. These links contain some very useful information...

http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/sites/default/files/Evacuation_Transcript.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuations_of_civilians_in_Britain_during_World_War_II

http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/operation-pied-piper-the-evacuation-of-english-children-during-world-war-ii/

http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/operation-pied-piper/

http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/the-drift-home/
On the Woodhorn site you can listen to some of the evacuees themselves talking of their experience.

Thankyou for your suggestion patches it was my mother who was living in Edmonton London while pregnant with me when evacuated to willersley castle. I am now living in southgate area wishing to see if there might be others like me. I really don't know how to start up another site so a bit confused about it all as it is we to me.

Its quite easy to start a new thread. Click on Genealogy Chat to the left of the board.

At the top of the list of threads in large bold type will be
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My sister was born in St Albans in 1940 and my mother lived in South Bermondsey. I have been wondering why this was, perhaps that explains it. Sadly she only lived for three days. I was born at St Alpheges Greenwich though so perhaps the practise of evacuation had been discontinued by then. Does anyone know?
Ann

Ann, after the huge evacuation of civilians out of London in the first few days of September, the expected German invasion didn't happen, causing many to doubt the experts' predicted danger (you may have heard of the expression Phoney War). Consequently, many people returned to their homes in the city. It wasn't until the Blitz of 1940, I believe, that people realised there was, after all, a need for being evacuated, and that they would be safer out of London.

Those links I put up in my earlier post make some very interesting reading about this era :-)

I born 1944 was born in Brocket Hall, Hatfield famous for Lord Brocket's insurance scam. My parents lived in Edmonton, my mother said the wall paper was hand painted and the beds had to be well away from the wall.

Bless me my old nanny stayed in London with 3 of hers then!!! brave lady if they could go!! lol :-D