Public assistance Clerk ?

[Guest]

this is the occupation given for a Father on a 1939 Marriage Cert, what would you say that meant ?
As in 1911 he is a College Clerical Cap Maker .
Thanks

[Elaine ..Spain]

Public Assistant Institution is the name given to former workhouses - dates from the early 1930s (I think!)

[Elaine ..Spain]

The workhouse system underwent several administrative reforms in the United Kingdom, and was abolished on 1 April 1930, replaced by other social legislation for the unemployed and retired. Despite abolition, many workhouses, renamed as "Public Assistance Institution" or commonly "P. A. Institution", [11] continued under the local County Council until the implementation of the National Assistance Act, 1948. [12] David Johnston describes the East Preston workhouse in the 1950s in 'City Streets to Sussex Lanes'

Source: http://wapedia.mobi/en/Poor_Law_Institution

[Guest]

hi Elaine and thanks is Public Assistance Institution the same thing then?

[Elaine ..Spain]

hi Elaine and thanks is Public Assistance Institution the same thing then?

From what I can see on the internet the workhouse system was abolished in 1930 - and workhouses were renamed Public Assistance Institutions. Whether there was any change in the way they were run, I am not sure!

[Guest]

thanks very much Elaine , I wonder then if I could find out here he worked, and would records survive ?

[Uncle John]

Public Assistance subsequently became "the Dole" and more recently JobSeeker's Allowance. So the modern equivalent might be a JobCentre clerk.

[Guest]

lol Uncle John thanks