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Offline dawnsh

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« on: Thursday 13 April 17 13:43 BST (UK) »
Hi

Does anyone know whether all the boys from here were sent to Blackpool or elsewhere?

Trying to get a 1939 record opened which FindMyPast won't do without an exact address.
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Re: Manchester Grammar School
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 13 April 17 14:13 BST (UK) »
Have you tried contacting the school, Dawn? I know in the log books of the school where I taught there were details about where the children were evacuated.
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Re: Manchester Grammar School
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 13 April 17 15:21 BST (UK) »
Their archives have some references: http://archives.mgs.org/
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
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Re: Manchester Grammar School
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 13 April 17 15:25 BST (UK) »
Their archives have some references: http://archives.mgs.org/

Looking at those it does look as if the school was evacuated to Blackpool.
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Re: Manchester Grammar School
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 13 April 17 17:14 BST (UK) »
Vague feeling Rossall School may have some connection with a MGS evacuation?
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)

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Re: Manchester Grammar School
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 13 April 17 20:12 BST (UK) »
Thanks.

I've emailed the school archivist to see if they have the information I need.
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Re: Manchester Grammar School
« Reply #6 on: Friday 08 September 17 19:38 BST (UK) »
Were you able to get any more information from the archives? I vaguely remember my late father, born 1925, who attended MGS, telling me he was evacuated to Blackpool but until today I did not realise it was a school evacuation. He is not with his parents on 1939 register.
Williams - Abergavenny/Cardigan
Morris - Cardigan
Penfold - Pagham/Hampshire
Mitchell - Sittingbourne
Matthews - Sittingbourne
Everard - Braintree
Lowe - Kidderminster
Giles - Kidderminster
Sadler - London
Miller -Wiltshire/Mountain Ash
Bracher - Wiltshire
Tucker - North Devon

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Re: Manchester Grammar School
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 09 September 17 13:04 BST (UK) »
The archivist was really helpful and confirmed he was evacuated but they didn't know where any of the boys were specifically billeted. They weren't away very long, I think she said they were all back by the end of October.

I found the headmaster just outside 'Blackpool central' from memory.

Although I have the death cert, without an address the record can't be opened and the death is too recent, 2012. I know FindMyPast are regularly opening records for deaths after 2007. I don't know where they are getting their info from, they certainly aren't sitting at Westminster Archives or the British Library finding entries in the GRO fiche.
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Chandler-Chelsea

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Re: Manchester Grammar School
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 09 September 17 14:03 BST (UK) »
I know FindMyPast are regularly opening records for deaths after 2007. I don't know where they are getting their info from, they certainly aren't sitting at Westminster Archives or the British Library finding entries in the GRO fiche.

Ancestry have some deaths 2007-215, so probably FindMyPast are getting them from the same source?
The information apparently originates from: GreyPower Deceased Data. compiled by Wilmington Millennium, West Yorkshire.  The data apparently comes from funeral directors and obituaries. It is then packaged for marketing companies to ensure they don't contact the deceased.

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