Post Office records go online
Almost 20,000 pension records of Victorian and Edwardian Post O ce employees can now be searched online for free.
The records were transcribed by volunteers for the research project Addressing Health ( addressinghealth.org.uk). This includes readers of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, who pitched in during our annual Transcription Tuesday event on 2 February 2021.
They are now available on data.addressinghealth.org.uk.
The records are shown on a map of Britain and Ireland. Family historians can click on each postal worker’s name to see details such as their position; place of residence; date of retirement; age at retirement; and details of their health and income throughout their career. They can also filter the data.
The site is being continuously updated and will eventually hold 30,000 records.
Dr Laura Newman of King’s College London, part of the Addressing Health team, explained, “The good thing about the data-visualisation tool is that you’re going to get a better idea of what workers’ health was like throughout their entire life-cycle, not just at the end. I think that this is what makes it really interesting for the family historian.”
You can find details of next year’s Transcription Tuesday event in our February issue, on sale 11 January 2022.