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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: paynemichael on Friday 19 February 21 11:31 GMT (UK)
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In my grandmother's letter of 24 October 1940 to my father, she says she is with "aunt and uncle."
She states the address (in Leicestershire). I have the full address inc. postcode and I can see the house on Google map Streetview.
As far as I know all her siblings lived in Kent, not Leicestershire. So I would like to know the surname of whom she stayed with please.
If someone can advise me I will be glad.
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Welcome to Rootschat.
This is going to be difficult if you don't tell us the address.
Have you looked for the address in the 1939 register?
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Have you been able to research her parents brothers and sisters (who would be Uncle and Aunt's) to give you some names to narrow down?
Or is the inference it was your fathers Uncle and Aunt not hers :-\
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Try family surnames in the 1939 register, see if you can identify a link with that address.
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Welcome to Rootschat.
This is going to be difficult if you don't tell us the address.
Have you looked for the address in the 1939 register?
The address: "Brooklyn" East Lane, Thornton, Coalville, Leics. LE67 1TG
Tried the register but need the Enumeration district. Thank you for your advice.
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Have you been able to research her parents brothers and sisters (who would be Uncle and Aunt's) to give you some names to narrow down?
Or is the inference it was your fathers Uncle and Aunt not hers :-\
I think you are correct. her uncle and aunt, not my father's. Thankyou.
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Try family surnames in the 1939 register, see if you can identify a link with that address.
Thankyou.
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Tried the register but need the Enumeration district. Thank you for your advice.
It should be in RFCC. Other properties in East Lane are there, including The Manse and Rock View. East Lane itself is not mentioned though. The addresses are Bardon Hill and Battleflat.
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I dont want to put a spanner in the works but at that time, nearly all people the same age as our parents were referred to as 'aunt' and 'uncle'. it was either mr and mrs sowieso or aunt and uncle.
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I dont want to put a spanner in the works but at that time, nearly all people the same age as our parents were referred to as 'aunt' and 'uncle'. it was either mr and mrs sowieso or aunt and uncle.
I called my godparents Aunt and Uncle.
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I reckon this is the right page in the register. If it was done in order along East Lane, Brooklyn would be household 276:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61596/images/tna_r39_6034_6034i_023
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=tna%2fr39%2f6034%2f6034i%2f023
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Some areas produce voter's lists - electoral registers, I've seen them into the 1960s for parts of Yorkshire, on Ancestry. Perhaps other places do them, too?
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I reckon this is the right page in the register. If it was done in order along East Lane, Brooklyn would be household 276:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61596/images/tna_r39_6034_6034i_023
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=tna%2fr39%2f6034%2f6034i%2f023
I think you meant the household is 275, not 276 :-\ :-\ Next door to The Manse. ;D
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And "Hollydene" appears on the 1939 register as household 279, and is named on Google Maps.
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And next door to Hollydene we have Rock View - shown as 2 households in 1939 and also on the map.
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I think you meant the household is 275, not 276 Next door to The Manse
No, next door but one. "Brooklyn" is a semi and the other semi is between it and "The Manse".
https://tinyurl.com/rjffuhcu
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Oops! :-[