I've decided to go right back to the start and write up my tree - with the help of the book My Family History (the 10 generation family record).
For some reason I'd never looked for my father on the 1939 Register. He was from Bermondsey in London and I know that he was "evacuated", with his mother and brother, to an uncle's house in Cheshire. He and other family members told me about it. I have just checked the Register and his mother is listed with an aunt of hers (Amelia E Pennington, b. 1885), a cousin of hers and her sister in law and 6 children (I presume, as that fits) who are all blacked out at a house in Sussex. I assume that as the Register was from 29th September 1939, and they all came from Bermondsey, they'd been evacuated there first.
But, they are all listed in one house with no other residents. The address is given as "Erlsmore" (Ancestry) / "Erls?" Compton Road, Cuckfield U.D., Sussex (Find My Past). The map on Find My Past shows Lindfield, which seems to be confirmed by google search of the road name.
So, my question I guess is: were families evacuated and put into single houses? I guess my knowledge of evacuation is of children being put with host families or going to stay with family. They did not have much money (the family were all dock and factory labourers), so I doubt they could have rented somewhere independently. And we have no known links with the area.
Does anyone have any knowledge of the area or know where I can look to find out more?
Thanks.
For some reason I'd never looked for my father on the 1939 Register. He was from Bermondsey in London and I know that he was "evacuated", with his mother and brother, to an uncle's house in Cheshire. He and other family members told me about it. I have just checked the Register and his mother is listed with an aunt of hers (Amelia E Pennington, b. 1885), a cousin of hers and her sister in law and 6 children (I presume, as that fits) who are all blacked out at a house in Sussex. I assume that as the Register was from 29th September 1939, and they all came from Bermondsey, they'd been evacuated there first.
But, they are all listed in one house with no other residents. The address is given as "Erlsmore" (Ancestry) / "Erls?" Compton Road, Cuckfield U.D., Sussex (Find My Past). The map on Find My Past shows Lindfield, which seems to be confirmed by google search of the road name.
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Does anyone have any knowledge of the area or know where I can look to find out more?
Thanks.
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