Transcribed by Robin E. Thomas, Montana State University

From: The Diary of the Calvinistic Methodists, for 1887. Edited by the Rev. E. Jerman, Wrexham and Joseph Evans, Swansea. Published for the General Assembly of the Calvinistic Methodists by Hughes & Son, Hope Street, Wrexham.

Introduction

The LNER documents on these pages are dated 16th August 1939 and describe the detailed plans for the evacuation of schoolchildren from Newcastle and Gateshead in the event of war. As the month progressed it became increasingly clear that the evacuation would in fact take place, so full scale rehearsals were held in Gateshead on Monday August 28th and in Newcastle on the 29th. Thousands upon thousands of children assembled in school yards carrying gas masks and a few personal possessions and each had an identification label either tied or fastened securely to their clothing. Then, all too soon, it was the real thing: on September 1st and 2nd children from Newcastle and Gateshead, along with children from other urban areas in the North-East and around the country, were moved away from the cities to safer areas. Altogether about one fifth of the country's schoolchildren were moved - one of the greatest logistical exercises of all time.

The numbers were less than expected because many parents could not bear to be parted from their children but, nevertheless, about 28,300 children from Newcastle, 71% of those eligible, , and 10,598 children from Gateshead, also 71% of those eligible, were moved. The proportions were much less in other LEA areas in the region, even those in coastal areas. The actual figures for evacuation from the authority areas comprising Evactuation Area 7 (The North-East Group) are shown in the table above.

Index to Documents

Made available to GENUKI by Gateshead Council.

EVACUATION OF CIVIL POPULATION
FROM
NEWCASTLE
AND
GATESHEAD
IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY

Transcribed by Kathleen Bolam

Surnames YULE to ZUR NEDDEN

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2nd November 1885 - 31 December 1906

Transcribed by Kathleen Bolam
Data processed by Margaret Hall

[1897 incomplete: no entries for the first six months and some pages damaged for later in year.
1901 incomplete - 24th December & 31st December missing.
31 Mar 1906 - only 4 entries shown, remainder damaged]

PLEASE NOTE that neither Kathleen nor Margaret can supply any additional information. For that you will need to access the original newspapers which are held at Newcastle Local Studies Library and at British Library Newspapers. The latter can also provide copies of pages.

The following persons survived the crash of the British-built airship "R101" on October 5th 1930.

Information supplied by Harry Wykes of the Airship Heritage Trust

On October 5th 1930 the British-built airship "R101" crashed into a hillside near Beauvais in France killing everybody on board. [The underlined words were in the text supplied to GENUKI - but see "R101 Survivors"]

The following are listed as having been killed:-

Documents on the R101 are held in the Public Record Office in Kew under AIR 3,5,& 11. Photographs of the wreckage are under AIR5/1070 via 6/573/1/.

• General
  • The relevance of surnames in genealogy (archived copy) provided by the Society of Genealogists gives some interesting background information.
  • The GENUKI Surnames List index and Mailing List Index provide county by county listings with links to appropriate pages or information.
  • Thesaurus of British Surnames (archived copy) - a project, now terminated, that developed and managed an online thesaurus of British surname variants.
  • Nicknames and Naming Traditions.
  • The Surname Thesaurus - "a technology for finding Surname and Forename variants" (archived copy)
  • Family Names of the United Kingdom (FaNUK) - an ongoing project.
  • PublicProfiler - "The world family name mapping website uses many new and up to date sources to tell you where in the world people with your family name are found. Additionally, we provide lots of interesting facts and figures about the people who share your family name".
  • The Original Record.com provides free surname searches of "1,000 years of unusual records that have not been accessible before", and the ability to purchase scans taken the original documents.
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland - press release.
• Biographies 
  • Who Was Who (the compilation of entries in Who's Who of people alive after 1897)  and Who's Who are available by online subscription access (possibly free via your local library) and hard copy.  
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is available by online subscription access (possibly free via your local library) and hard copy.
  • Wikipedia's Biography Portal. 
  • Obituary Daily Times - an index of published obituaries
  • For those who may have been mentioned, even if only in passing, in books, see Bibliography
  • For people famous or infamous enough to get their names in the newspapers or to have obituaries, or posh enough to announce their births, marriages and deaths, see Newspapers.
  • Search engines like Google are always worth a try, although you may have to scroll through many pages of hits.
  • Archive and Library catalogues usually have synopses which will often allow you to find a name even if it is not in the book title.
  • For those who may have appeared at the Old Bailey Old Bailey Online.
  • If you know their occupation, see Occupations. (In particular, for ministers of religion, see under Church Officials).
• Specialised Name Listings
  • Names extracted from the book "THE GREAT DAYS OF THE CANALS" by Anthony Burton.
  • The names of actors and actresses who died pre 1930 and who are listed in the book "WHO'S WHO IN THE THEATRE" edited by John PARKER and printed in 1930.
  • The Agincourt Honor Roll (archived copy) - a list of nearly 1000 participants in this 1415 battle.
  • Indexes to parish returns towards the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, ca.1678 in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
  • Marion Hebblethwaite's George Cross Database lists and provides information about recipients.
  • A variety of name listings were produced by the late Ted Wildy and are available online, including:
    • Names from "A Country Camera 1844-1914" by Gordon Winter.
    • Casualties in the R101 Airship Disaster
    • Names from the book "Trade Tokens" by J.R.S. Whiting
    • Casualties listed in the East India Directory and Register, 1832
    • Names from "The Atlantic Telegraph" by W.H. Russell, c1866
  • Colin Mackie's Directories - of British Diplomats, British Civil Servants (1900-), British Armed Forces (1860-), Composers, and U.S. Senators (1863-).

Bardsley, Alan. First name variants. Birmingham: Federation of Family History Societies (2003) 18pp. [ISBN-13: 978-1860061776]

(See also Military History and Occupations.)