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We are grateful to findmypast.co.uk for the following information and data about Henham civilians at the outbreak of World War 2.
In December 1938 it was announced in the House of Commons that in the event of war, a National Register would be taken that listed the personal details of every civilian (aged over 15yrs.) in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This Register was to be a critical tool in coordinating the war effort at home. It would be used to issue identity cards, organise rationing and more.
On September 1st, 1939 Germany invaded Poland, putting the wheels in motion for Britain to declare war on the 3rd. On September 5th, the National Registration Act received royal assent and Registrar General Sir Sylvanus Vivian announced that National Registration Day would be September 29th.
Having issued forms to more than 41 million people, the enumerators were charged with the task of visiting every household in Great Britain and Northern Ireland to collect the names, addresses, marital statuses and other key details of every civilian in the country, issuing identity cards on the spot.
The identity cards issued were essential items from the point the Register was taken right up until 1952, when the legal requirement to carry them ceased. Until that point, every member of the civilian population had to be able to present their card upon request by an official (children’s cards were looked after by parents), or bring them to a police station within 48 hours. The reasons were numerous – it was essential to know who everyone was, of course, and to track their movements as they moved house, as well as to keep track of the population as babies were born and people passed away.
The 1939 Register, then, represents one of the most important documents in 20th century Britain. The information it contains not only helped toward the war effort, it was also used in the founding of the National Health Service.
The 1931 census was destroyed during an air raid on London and the 1941 census was never taken. The 1939 Register, released online by Findmypast in partnership with The National Archives, is therefore the only surviving overview of the civil population of England and Wales spanning the period 1921-1951. It bridges a census gap that risked losing an entire generation, and is a fascinating resource for anyone interested in understanding 20th century Britain and its people.
Open records of the 1939 Register for England and Wales are available online at findmypast.co.uk where you can search by name or address, or browse by place or street. It is free to search for these records, but there is a charge to view full transcriptions and download documents. This service is pay per view only at present. However, you can view these records online free of charge at The National Archives in Kew. The Register contains details of 40 million individuals. For each individual the following details are included: address, schedule number, sub number, surname, first name(s), role (for institutions only – for example, Officer, Visitor, Servant, Patient, Inmate), gender, date of birth, marital status and occupation.
Below are the 'free details' from findmypast.co.uk for those civilians named Gaubert, including mis-spellings, andthose members of the Maas and Murray families to whom I am connected.
First name(s) | Surname | Born | Address | Comment |
Alfred F. | Gaubert but shown as Gawbert |
1895 3rd Mar | 23, Seager Rd., Sheerness, Kent | widowed, chargeman electrical fitter and Jean Edwards b. 24th Oct 1921 unpaid domestic duties |
Anne | Gaubert | 1933 15th May | 21, Liscard Crescent, Wallasey C.B. Cheshire | at the home of Percy Allen and 3 other people. b. 1933, dau.of Frank Walter Benbow GAUBERT & Beatrice ALLEN, d. Jun 1943 in Basingstoke |
Arthur W | Gaubert | 1867 6th. Aug | 49, South View Rd. Hornsey Middx | widowed, retired |
Frank | Gaubert | 1905 16th Dec | 49, South View Rd.Hornsey, Middx | single, engineer's clerk (HBC) |
Beatrice | Gaubert | 1908 14th Oct | 103, Shooters Hill Road, Greenwich | married, unpaid domestic duties |
Frank W B | Gaubert | 1908 10th Jan | 103, Shooters Hill Road, Greenwich | married, ships clerk docks |
Bessie E | Gaubert | 1892 12th May | 80, Bell Rd., Sittingbourne & Milton, Kent | unpaid domestic duties, and Edward and 3 other people |
Edward | Gaubert | 1892 14th Feb | 80, Bell Rd., Sittingbourne & Milton, Kent | inspector elect fitters HM Dockyard, Sheerness and Bessie E. and 3 other people |
Clara | Gaubert | 1856 24th May | 40, The Little House, Water Edge, Cookham, Berks | private means, and 7 other people |
Edith E M | Gaubert | 1869 23rd Mar | 36, Wilson Ave., Rochester, Kent | married, unpaid domestic duties, and Edward W |
Edward W | Gaubert | 1869 7th Aug | 36, Wilson Ave., Rochester, Kent | married, Foreman of Works, Admiralty, retired and Edith E M |
Elise | Gaubert | 1898 15th Feb | Bullridge House., South Str., Wilton, Wiltshire | single, parlour maid |
Elizabeth M | Gaubert | 1910 31st Jul | 5, Sandy Meade, Prestwich, Lancs. | unpaid domestic duties, and Peter |
Peter | Gaubert | 1914 20th. Sep | 5, Sandy Meade, Prestwich, Lancs. | research chemist, dyestuffs and Elizabeth M |
Esther | Gaubert | 1901 15th Oct | 65, Evesham Rd., Southgate, Middlx | single, dental nurse, and James & Annie Dove and Irene Jennings |
Evelyn I | Gaubert | 1885 13th Feb | 51, Carshalton Rd., Carshalton, Surrey | single, shorthand typist retired and 3 more people |
Irene L | Gaubert | 1907 10th Mar | 51, South View Rd., Hornsey, Middlx | unpaid household duties, married and George Fardell and his wife Lilian |
Lillian | Gaubert | 1872 25th Aug | Blighmore Nursing Home, Waterhouse lane, Southampton, Hants. | visitor, widowed, unpaid household duties |
Romanie M | Gaubert | 1892 12th Apr | Corpus Domini Convent, Guildford, Surrey | single, occ.= religious and not connected to our family |
William E | Gaubert | 1904 4th Feb | 115, Apple Grove, Enfield, Middlx | married, setter and carpenter and joiner, and Eva K Harrison, married, unpaid domestic duties |
Winifred A. | Gaubert | 1893 6th Aug | 40, Worple Road, Wimbledon, Surrey | guest house proprietess, divorced |
Tatiana M | Chocker, should be Crocker (nee Gaubert) |
1919 24th Sep | 4, Brackley Road, Beckenham, Kent | single, clerk in Westminster and Olga De Loutsky |
Clara | Gaubert (nee Benjamin) |
1870 16th Jul | 210, shop Roman Road, Poplar, Ldn | and Isaac Benjamin and 4 more people |
Emily Beatrice | Gaubert (nee Dove) |
1905 7th Jun | 108, North View Rd., Hornsey, Middlx | photographer, single and William Dove & Emily E. Dove |
Catherine | Maas | 1864 9th Oct | 69, Glenparke Rd, Forest Gate, Ldn.E7 | old age pensioner, widowed plus Lilian C (Elizabeth) Murray and 1 more person |
Lillian C (Elizabeth) | Murray | 1892 24th Aug | 69, Glenparke Rd, Forest Gate, Ldn.E7 | unpaid domestic duties, married plus Catherine Maas and Eileen L. Gaubert nee Murray |
Percival H | Murray | 1891 26th Jul | 29, Anglesea Rd., Ipswich, Suffolk | clerk grocery distributor, husband of Lillian Murray above, he was my maternal grandfather |
Eileen L. | Gaubert | 1919 31st Jul | 69, Glenparke Rd, Forest Gate, Ldn.E7 | my mother |
Kathleen B | Hawes | 1919 9th Sep | Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, Essex | daughter of Rose E. Hawes, bakers shop assistant, cook in private service |
Rose E | Hawes | 1895 21st Jul | Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, Essex | nee Phipps, nee Gaubert, my paternal grandmother, married, unpaid domestic duties |
Tony (Anthony Gaubert) | Gambert | 1927 28th Jun | inmate at 1, St. Joseph's Franciscan Convent, East Str., Littlehampton, Sussex | son of Rose Hawes (nee Gaubert and nee Phipps) and Benjamin Hawes. Tony was my father's stepbrother |
Eileen M. | Hunt nee Gaubert |
1916 17th Oct | Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, Essex | my father's sister, dairy shop assistant, housemaid |
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