My grandad Fredrick Albert Joynes born 1898 died 1956 was a train driver, he lived in Barnsley South Yorkshire I dont know what company he worked for, and I dont know where to search,I have a letter expressing sympathy on his death13th September 1956 and in comes from Eastern Region Doncaster ref. B/J/2 and the name is S. KELSEY District Motive Power Superintendent, can any one help?
I have searched the index to the fully digitised version of the LNER Magazine and the name/word Joynes is not present. Not all staff are included in the staff changes list (my Father who joined in 1946 is not) but it's always a possibility that he started before Grouping, or prior to the 'all-line' version of the magazine appearing from 1927, or even that he joined the LMS or one of its constituents.
It might be worth making enquiries of the GC and GN line societies:
65447 wrote:I have searched the index to the fully digitised version of the LNER Magazine and the name/word Joynes is not present. Not all staff are included in the staff changes list (my Father who joined in 1946 is not) but it's always a possibility that he started before Grouping, or prior to the 'all-line' version of the magazine appearing from 1927, or even that he joined the LMS or one of its constituents.
It might be worth making enquiries of the GC and GN line societies:
As I am lead to belive Barnsley was under the catchment of the Lancahire and Yorkshire railway and then the subsiquently the LMS railway; as well as the Hull and Barnsley railway which became the North Eartern Railway in 1921 and then placed under the catchment of LNER. Records for all of thease companies should be available from the national archives.
