This is part of a Register which was taken across all of the UK on the, 29th September, 1939.

Here it states, that the residents at 1 Primrose Cottage, Woodcote, Dodford, Nr. Kidderminster, were, Joseph George Petty b. 6th January 1900, occupation, Farm Labourer and his wife Fanny May (Jones) (Hayward) Petty b. 1st May 1887, occupation, Housework.

There were two others living at the house but because of the 100 year ruling they were blanked out. However I am certain that they would have been Fanny May's daughter Norah Mary Hayward, b. Saturday, 17th December, 1910, from her first marriage to Charles Hayward. And, Leslie George Petty b. Monday, 7th October, 1929, from her second marriage to Joseph Petty. Fanny's other daughters from her first marriage to Charles Hayward, Mabel Lloyd Hayward, b. Tuesday, 10th April, 1917, and Doris Winifred Hayward, b. Tuesday, 18th May, 1920, were living at the Post Office, Knightwick, Worcestershire, with Fanny's brother John William Jones and his wife Lucy (Grubham) Jones. (My Grandparents)

On Saturday, 14th February, 1942, Mabel married, Sidney Ralph Ganderton. On the Wedding Certificate her residence at that time was the Post Office Knightwick.

You will not be able to view details of any person born within the past 100 years who is still alive. The 1939 register was maintained with details of those who died only until 1991. Therefore for anyone who was born less that 100 years ago and who died after 1991, you will not be able to view their details (although you can notify findmypast of their death, with suitable proof, so that their record can be opened for viewing).

In theory the 1931 census for England & Wales would have been available for public access in 2032 or perhaps earlier if rules were to be changed. However that is not to be.

On the night of Saturday 19 December 1942, there was a fire at a store in Hayes, Middlesex. The store, the responsibility of the Office of Works, contained a large amount of furniture but in addition it contained the census records for England & Wales for 1931, that is the whole of the schedules, enumeration books and plans. They were all completely destroyed.

A census of the United Kingdom was due to be taken in early 1941 but this never happened because of World War II.

So the 1939 register is very important to genealogists.

Sitting on the left is my great grandfather, Philip Grubham. The three girls on right are Doris Hayward, her elder sister Mabel Hayward and their cousin Doris Jones. The photo I think was taken circa. 1929. Doris Hayward was born in 1921, Mabel Hayward in 1917 and Doris Jones in 1909. Doris Hayward married Benjamin Bayliss (14th January 1950), Mabel Hayward married Sidney Ganderton (14th February 1942) and Doris Jones married John Edward Holland (16th April 1938). On the far side of table in a suite is Bowden Wooton, who married Esther Grubham (15th June 1929), sat next to him.
So this may have been their wedding day!

I do not know any of the others in this photo.

Philip Grubham, b. 9th May, 1846. -  d. 17th April, 1934.
Bawden Wootton, b. 4th March, 1892. - d. September qtr., 1961.
Esther Elizabeth [Grubham] Flowers [later Wootton] [Daughter] b. 15th April, 1877. - d. 1947.
Doris Eliza Jones [Later Holland] [Grandaughter] b. 14th May 1909. - d. 27th November, 1974.
Mabel Lloyd Hayward [Later Ganderton] [Cousin to Doris Eliza Jones] b. 10th April, 1917. - d. 20th June, 2002
Doris Winifred Jones [Later Bayliss] [Cousin to Doris Eliza Jones] b. 18th May, 1920. - d. 1986

Mabel and Doris were living at the at the Post Office at Knightwick with their uncle and aunty, John William & Lucy Jones. This was due to something happening in their family, perhaps the death of their father. They stayed there until they married their respective partners. While their elder sister Nora Mary Hayward stayed with her mother Fanny May Hayward [nee Jones] who remarried to Joseph Petty on the 3rd December, 1928, in Bromyard.

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