Is there such a thing as a record of where someone may have been "in service"? My Aunt has been virtually impossible to trace. My mum knew her birthday but could remember her year of birth (she was 16 yrs older than my mum), but still very hard to trace. My cousin managed to track my aunts birth cert out but it gives very little information. The father is listed as unknown. My grandmother was listed as being in service at the time which makes me think of scandal!! Anyone have any ideas of how I can find more? My aunt was born in 1920. Thanks Amanda
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Which country? Have you looked for Electoral rolls/Voting records, in australia it gives the area they live, but not the occupation. still it may help a little. I have several "in service" but at least it is early enough to tap the British Census records. Except for one, she was 10 in the 1851 census next record she married in India 1861 can find nothing in between, not when or why or who she left England with. I think it may have been as a servant to someone connected with the East India Company. Chris
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I have the same problem, i am searching for records of service at 43 Palace Court London of whom i believe is my Grandmother Mary Winifred McCarthy as stated on my dads birth certificate, she was born 1906. My dad was born in the Marylebone workhouse london on 15th July 1929. I have been in touch with a family that has Mary in their family tree but they don't know wether she was in london in service. If i can place her there from records of her service then i have found the family of my dad. Would she have had a national insurance number at that time and what information is required on your national insurance number?
Thanks Sandra
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It's in England, don't know about the N.I number. Obviously on UK records we can only go up the 1911 census so that leaves me a little stuck. I don't know where she was in service either, it could be anywhere in Derbyshire, or Yorkshire, or anywhere really.
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There would absolutely no use looking for electoral rolls in 1920 - women did not get the vote in England until 1929 - except for a few restricted to married women after 1919. Universal National Insurance numbers only came in in 1948 with the universal National Health Service. As there were no particular regulations for domestic service and no compulsory insurance, there would not be any records. She would have had to be recorded on a census but as said - our census records are restricted to a 100 year block.
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