The 1939 Register was taken on 29th September to allow the government to issue ID cards, rationing coupons and to anticipate conscription arrangements. With the 1931 census having been destroyed in the Blitz and no 1941 census being taken, it is a valuable source of information, albeit with redactions for those who are still alive or for whom no death has been confirmed.
On the 1st September Operation Pied Piper was launched and Mobberley received evacuees from Stretford Road School and St Bride's Manchester. The school was closed from 1st September to 11th September on government instructions and on reopening taught local children from 9 to 12.30 and the evacuees from 1.30 to 5.00pm.
The register shows 172 children as being "at school" with only 31 "under school age" (not allowing ro some redacted records) and the imbalance hints at the number of evacuee children. It is clear that a significant number of households were involved in housing one or two children. In 1939 there were 591 households (compared with over 1100 today) and 2256 individuals.
On 15th April 1940 the teacher in charge of the Stretford children left and was not replaced. The school log book notes that the children are now to be transferred to the Cheshire register. There is no record of the turnover of children, when they were able to return or if more replaced them on a cyclical basis, although there is an entry referring to 32 children arriving from London in 1944 when the German V1 bomber attacks started.
interpreting the handwriting is not easy at times and the register is a rewriting of the forms completed by householders, some of whose literacy will have been in question. I have attempted to transcribe the data, accessed here.
On the 1st September Operation Pied Piper was launched and Mobberley received evacuees from Stretford Road School and St Bride's Manchester. The school was closed from 1st September to 11th September on government instructions and on reopening taught local children from 9 to 12.30 and the evacuees from 1.30 to 5.00pm.
The register shows 172 children as being "at school" with only 31 "under school age" (not allowing ro some redacted records) and the imbalance hints at the number of evacuee children. It is clear that a significant number of households were involved in housing one or two children. In 1939 there were 591 households (compared with over 1100 today) and 2256 individuals.
On 15th April 1940 the teacher in charge of the Stretford children left and was not replaced. The school log book notes that the children are now to be transferred to the Cheshire register. There is no record of the turnover of children, when they were able to return or if more replaced them on a cyclical basis, although there is an entry referring to 32 children arriving from London in 1944 when the German V1 bomber attacks started.
interpreting the handwriting is not easy at times and the register is a rewriting of the forms completed by householders, some of whose literacy will have been in question. I have attempted to transcribe the data, accessed here.