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Evacuees or not evacuees..

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Leslie

Leslie Report 26 Dec 2018 16:32

I have in the past found some info on where people were evacuated to from London during the ww2..My latest query is a family that were bombed out and sent to Wales ...
So far,,no luck locating info on them....Does anybody know if they actually kept "bombed out" records??? I can't find them so far....Regards....LES...

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 26 Dec 2018 17:04

It would be interesting to know if, or where, the records were kept. There must have been some sort of records as their ration books would have needed to be updated/reissued.
The 1939 register is unlikely to be of use, unless they went to join an evacuated younger (now deceased) child? If you can find such a record, it might be give you a clue.

My father & his parents were bombed out during the blitz. I know where they ended up by 1945 but not when or if they found temporary lodgings.

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Inky1

Inky1 Report 26 Dec 2018 18:11

National Archives - some information here:-

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/evacuees/

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 26 Dec 2018 19:12

Well I was an evacuee as was my elder brother and sister we were evacuated in sept 1939

I kept in touch with my foster family up until they passed and with their daughter who was born in 1947, so I know where we all were billeted in Kent

My sister passed in 2002 so her record is open as well as the couple we lived with . I am a closed record thankfully!!!!!

My brother was next door but his record is closed as he lived and passed away in Spain in 2001 so his death won't be picked up .

I was re evacuated to Birmingham in about 1944 and there's no records online for the family I was with that time

I don't know of any central register for evacuees though and no electoral rolls were done during the war

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Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 28 Dec 2018 05:28

If there were children in school before the evacuation,old school registers may record where children went.
Sometimes a whole group of children went to a particular area.
I know that locally I have seen an exhibition of war-time events and school logs showed which school the children went to in the Welsh valleys. Comments from individual foster homes were also there.

Sometimes groups kept in touch for many years and reunions were reported later in local newspapers ,especially in significant anniversary years.