Hi Listers, Advice please. As I work through the 1939 register, I notice that some of my people have had "Heavy Worker" written after their occupation - usually in a different hand, but not always. Why has this been added? The occupations vary, although they tend to be manual labour of some kind. Were they trying to identfy a certain type of man for a particular service job? Or was "Heavy Worker" designating someone whose war effort would be better served if they remained in their current job? Look forward to receiving your views. Sue 6000 researching Pascall

They got extra rations of cheese for instance. I can not remember if they got extra meat. My number is still fresh in my memory. JFOB/178/3. It was of course also my NHS number for many years. Jim Sent from my iPad > On 24 Apr 2016, at 19:56, SUE FISHER-PASCALL via <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Listers, > > Advice please. As I work through the 1939 register, I notice that some of my people have had "Heavy Worker" written after their occupation - usually in a different hand, but not always. Why has this been added? The occupations vary, although they tend to be manual labour of some kind. Were they trying to identfy a certain type of man for a particular service job? Or was "Heavy Worker" designating someone whose war effort would be better served if they remained in their current job? Look forward to receiving your views. > > > Sue > 6000 researching Pascall > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Heavy Worker meant they had extra rations of food as they were doing manual jobs. Shirley Forster ELWICK web site:www.elwick.info Pirbright web site:www.pirbright.info On 24 April 2016 at 19:56 SUE FISHER-PASCALL via <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Listers, Advice please. As I work through the 1939 register, I notice that some of my people have had "Heavy Worker" written after their occupation - usually in a different hand, but not always. Why has this been added? The occupations vary, although they tend to be manual labour of some kind. Were they trying to identfy a certain type of man for a particular service job? Or was "Heavy Worker" designating someone whose war effort would be better served if they remained in their current job? Look forward to receiving your views. Sue 6000 researching Pascall _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks to Shirley and Jim for their replies. I hadn't realised that rationing had started right at the beginning in 1939 - or was "Heavy Worker" added at a later date? Sue 6000 Researching Pascall ________________________________ Heavy Worker meant they had extra rations of food as they were doing manual jobs. Shirley Forster ELWICK web site:www.elwick.info Pirbright web site:www.pirbright.info >Hi Listers, > >Advice please. As I work through the 1939 register, I notice that some of my people have had "Heavy Worker" written after their occupation - usually in a different hand, but not always. Why has this been added? The occupations vary, although they tend to be manual labour of some kind. Were they trying to identfy a certain type of man for a particular service job? Or was "Heavy Worker" designating someone whose war effort would be better served if they remained in their current job? Look forward to receiving your views. > > >Sue >6000 researching Pascall >_____________________________________________ > >RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: >http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message