General Chat

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there were any refugees as early as September 1939.

Also, wasn't the 1939 Register all done on one day? If so, then it could have been a visitor. There are plenty of those on earlier censuses.

My mum always had lodgers.their money helped the family finance.she did bed breakfast and evening meal

They were unrelated just paying lodgers,

Not really - the entry will only be unlocked when

a) An English/Welsh GRO index entry has been found & matched to say that they have died
b) They would have reached their 100th birthday.
c) Some one knows that they lived with your parents, and submits a copy of their death certificate.

It might have just been an unrelated Lodger. That was quite a common way to make a bit of money.

I was wondering whether anyone could help me solve a family mystery. I was investigating the 1939 register and as my parents were married in 1939, I decided to look them up. I could find my father's name, but my mother's name was locked, presumably because she had only died a couple of years ago. However there was a third person, also locked, who was named as living at their address. As my parents had only just married and my brothers had not yet been born, I was wondering who was this mystery person was. I asked my eldest brother, who was not able to help me, but my other brother told me he recalled our mother mentioning a refugee that they had housed during the war. No name, age, whether male or female or even which country he/she had come from, just "a refugee". Is there any way I could find out who this person might have been? All my relatives who were alive at the time and who might have known have now died.
Ro.W