Ancestry adds UK, Pension and Gratuity Records, 1860-1970 for the Royal Mail

Is there a postal worker in your ancestry? These 147,020 UK postal worker records on 278,540 sheets, usually two sheets per person, are handwritten onto pre-printed forms, with later records typed.  The source for the original data is The Postal Museum.

Records in the collection may include the following information:

Name
Birth date
Age
Occupation and position
Name of business
Length of Service
Salary
Date pension was granted
Death date

Here’s a profile of entries by birth decade (centered on the year given).

 

2 Replies to “Ancestry adds UK, Pension and Gratuity Records, 1860-1970 for the Royal Mail”

  1. Excellent to see these records. My wife’s 3 x great grandfather was a postie in Henley area in the mid 1850s and was awarded a pension in 1867 thanks to these records.

    Thanks for bringing these to our attention

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