This is the fourth and last post about the lives of Frank and Martha Hannah Hiley.
The 1939 Register was taken at the onset of the Second World War with the purpose of producing National Identity Cards. It was then used as an aid in the issue of ration books. and later helped officials record the movement of the civilian population over the following decades and from 1948, as the basis for the National Health Service Register.
The 1939 Register helped to bridge a thirty-year gap in census data. The census taken in 1931 was destroyed during WW2 and no census was carried out in 1941 due to the ongoing conflict. The register is held by The National Archives.
Frank and Martha Hannah appear in the 1939 Register. Martha Hannah was to die the following year and Frank the year after that. The couple were living at 6 Peel Cottage Road with Frank still working at Birks Mill as a Cotton Weaver.
Next door at No.8 were living three other members of the family. Betty Greenwood (nee Fielden) was Martha Hannah's sister-in-law. Betty married George Greenwood in St Peter's Church, Walsden, in 1908.
George worked in the cotton mill as a warehouseman. He enlisted to fight in WW1 in June 1916 but was not called up for service until May 1918 with the 15th Durham Light Infantry. He was killed in action on 23rd October 1918 and was buried at St Souplet British Cemetery in France. On that day his battalion was involved in the Battle of the Selle in the final advance in Picardy.
George and Betty had a daughter Annie, born in 1909. Annie married Leslie Chaffer in 1933.
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1939 Register entry for Frank and Martha Hannah
original image obtained from Ancestry.com - used with permission
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Grave of George Greenwood at St Souplet in France
(included with the permission of C and J Cosgrove)
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