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Title: NER Railway Scarborough
Post by: treesquirrel on Monday 09 January 12 17:07 GMT (UK)

Hello,

I wonder if anyone knows where to find information about employees of the NER.
I have an ancestor, Henry Atkinson, who was a signal fitter (NER) in Aug 1921.
He lived in Scarborough.
The Ancestry site has railway employees, but as far as I can see, not from the NER.

Any help gratefully received.

Melanie

Title: Re: NER Railway Scarborough
Post by: meles on Monday 09 January 12 17:15 GMT (UK)

He would have been a member of his Union, (probably the NUR), but most of the railway Unions were amalgamated into the RMT in recent years.

They have good records.

http://www.rmt.org.uk/

meles

Title: Re: NER Railway Scarborough
Post by: Redroger on Tuesday 10 January 12 17:30 GMT (UK)

If he stayed employed after the 1st January 1923, he would have become an employee of the LNER, which included amongst others the GNR and NER. At this time there was no sick pay made to employees so staff on the GNR had commenced a Sick and Funeral Fund. In 1923 it was opened to all staff of the new railway, and its records constitute a virtual census of employees as most of them joined. The records are held at Doncaster Borough Council Archives, King Edward Road Balby Doncaster.

Title: Re: NER Railway Scarborough
Post by: treesquirrel on Wednesday 11 January 12 22:08 GMT (UK)

Thank you Redroger and Meles for your replies. I shall look into both of these possibilities. I never would have come across either of these in MY search!

Title: Re: NER Railway Scarborough
Post by: Treetotal on Tuesday 21 February 12 17:47 GMT (UK)

Hi Melanie.....I thought you might be interested in this:


http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,576437.0.html

Carol