1939 Register, total numbers recorded in household not as expected?

[Millmoor]

Thanks for the reply to my query, Boo. What you say makes perfect sense. The only recollection I have of evacuees being discussed was that my grandmother was surprised when she discovered that some evacuees had been "sewn in for winter".

William

[Tickettyboo]

William, I remembered about the bbc site and found this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/63/a2640863.shtml

May not have been the same school your grandfather was the head of, but its worth poking round that site to read some of the stories.

and Gateshead Library may be able to answer your question properly. They are very helpful there.

Boo

[Millmoor]

Thanks again - I believe that was the school. Interesting that his  parents took him home after 6 - 7 weeks!

William

[barryd]

Depending on the family I have opened up quite a few households and their servant, usually a female, is included with the family and sometimes that servant  is closed, i.e. a twenty year old servant would have been born in 1919.

[dawnsh]

I did a load of loook-ups on Tuesday and a lot of complete households were redacted, I supposed if a couple were born 1915/1916 they would have been in their early 20's by 1939 so married and set up their own home with a couple of young children already.

The redacted people could be lodgers in their late teens/early 20's