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).
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
I had hoped to find the pension records for my great-uncles – alas, no 🙁