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diane

diane Report 26 Jan 2015 16:05

Hello

i was wondering if anyone knows where i can find records of people employed by the GPO in 1945 ?

Many thanks

Diane

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 26 Jan 2015 16:20

The Post Office archive are online, think they may be with Ancestry.

But do not get your hopes up. These records are literally just a name and date, if lucky it may be when they started.

also if you have somepne with a common name ie James Brown, then you have no way of identifying yours from all the others.

My g/grandfather who worked for the GPO in the 1920s does not even come up!

Think a lot depends on where they worked, ie Postmen are mor likely to be found, whereas mine was a linesman, setting up the telephone sytems when they started to become more popular.

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

diane

diane Report 26 Jan 2015 17:08

Thank you ,i will have a look :-)

diane

diane Report 26 Jan 2015 18:36

Just found it ,again thank you :-)

diane

diane Report 29 Jan 2015 17:47

Sadly no records found for Ethel Margaret Roberts GPO Officer 1945 (this is what Ethel is stated as being employed as on my Mums birth cert ) the search continues!

Karen in the desert

Karen in the desert Report 29 Jan 2015 21:30


My grandfather was a GPO Postman during the 1920's (according to his marriage cert, daughter's birth cert, daughter's death cert) and yet there is not record of him with the Postal workers / post office archives :-S
Several years ago, before they were online, I paid for a search to be done and there was nothing :-0

Researching:
Researching: MILLS & ROBERTS Cambs: TAGG Thames Ditton & East Molesey, Surrey: LEETON/LEADON Hunts & Cambs: LLOYD London/Middx: FROST London/Middx: ROSKAS, KISELIUS, BUDAS W.Lothian & Lanarks: ROSKAS, JAKAS/JAKAITE, JUSKEVICIUS, MICKEVICIUS Lithuania

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 30 Jan 2015 19:49

I think Karen and my experience shows that these records are not complete. I thnik they have posted what they have!

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

supercrutch

supercrutch Report 30 Jan 2015 20:17

I transcribed some of these records, I suspect there are more still yet to do.

Researching:
Jones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

was plain ann now annielaurie

was plain ann now annielaurie Report 30 Jan 2015 22:54

Announcements of GPO promotions and exams are often given in the London Gazette, which is searchable online although no personal info is given. Worth a look!

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/

diane

diane Report 2 Feb 2015 19:32

:-( sadly nothing found!

Graham

Graham Report 2 Feb 2015 20:03

Are these threads about the same person?

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1349073

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/living_relatives/thread/1348966

diane

diane Report 3 Feb 2015 13:52

Hi Graham,

Yes they are ??