General Chat

that's good news Susan!

By using the free search, I've confirmed that parents and grandparents were living were I knew them to be after the war, and thus also confirmed that Dad had not yet moved down to London where he lived for a few months in the early months of the war.

I might have to give in and buy credits to see what he says his job is .......... he was in Restricted Occupation, and I've never known what that was.



Re children ............... someone on another site has spotted that you will not be able to find children evacuated from their homes as the records will be closed, unless the site does have the date of death.

Well done Susie :-D

Sylvia you might be able to find out if he was any of these reserved occupations ( how accurate it is I don't know) by putting the surname , area and occupation ( from the list, in turn) in the required fields... I used it to double check that my grandfather was a bookbinder, I knew he would either come under that or printer.

Dock Workers
Miners
Farmers
Scientists
Merchant Seamen
Railway Workers
Utility Workers - Water, Gas, Electricity
Teachers and university lecturers
Doctors (Unless in the Territorial Army)
Police officers
Certain Civil Servants
Students (Only for the duration of their studies. Undergraduates were deferred, but not fully exempted. They could be conscripted at the end of their studies, unless they had a criminal record or ill health)
Priests, monks, nuns and anyone in Holy orders
Journalists (Though they may have been sent to the front, even running the risk of being shot or held by the enemies as spies. Some worked as intelligence officers during WW2.)
Some artists involved in propaganda work
Other media workers (especially those involved in technical roles, such as lighting engineers, electricians, cameramen, photographers, sound engineers, etc.)
Anyone running a small business, including government and local council contractors and their employees.
Local authority employees
Bank employees and employees of insurance companies
company directors
Veterinary surgeons

RR .


thanks for that.

When I was aware of what he did for a living, he was foreman in a brass foundry.

I suspect he was involved in building either planes or bombs :-)