Can’t find a child in the 1939 Register? Yes, they may be redacted but another possibility, particularly if the family home was in a town or city, is that they had been evacuated. You might find them miles from home living with strangers. #familyhistory #WW2 #genealogy

Thank goodness for the end of a terrible idea.

#OTD 1814 UPPER SERVANT WANTED by a Family in #Canterbury, a steady Woman, about 28 or 30 years of age.
She must be of capable superintending the kitchen, make pastry, preserves and pickles, understand the getting of up of small linen, and work well and quick at her needle.