HOW TO FIND YOUR ELECTRICIAN ANCESTORS

Although there is no comprehensive mandatory register, this doesn’t mean that you need to rely solely on census and, you can search the records in the collection ‘Electrical Engineering Apprentices & Trainees, 1902–1934’, which list 4,756 individuals who trained with the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, based in Manchester. These records provide useful details including addresses, when the individuals trained, the type of apprenticeship, and, where applicable, the cause of death. In addition, has ‘UK, Electrical Engineer Lists, 1871–1930’, containing the names of members of the Society of Telegraph Engineers/Institution of Electrical Engineers, their level of membership and current working address, as well as the same organisation’s ‘UK, Electrical Engineer Membership Forms, 1871–1901’ and ‘UK, Electrical Engineer WWI and WWII Rolls of Honour, 1924, 1949’.