Top tip!

When researching former Post Office employees in The Postal Museum Archive, the following information is useful to have at the start, if you have it: • Name of employee • Date of birth • Date of death • Date of appointment to the Post Office • Date of retirement • Date of marriage (if female) • Where they lived and their place of work. When searching within the Appointment Books on ancestry.co.uk simply using the surname often yields the most useful results.