Retired teachers

[Bay Horse]

Might a retired schoolteacher have been called back to work after WW2? I know that younger teachers would have been called up during wartime and, I'm guessing, creating a shortage of qualified teaching staff afterwards - particularly if they didn't return.

I have a 2nd cousin 3xR who was retired from teaching in the 1939 Register, lost his wife during the war and at the end of it has relocated to a completely different area, also one that was affected in the Blitz. I'm baffled, as he has no family ties to the area that I can find.

 

[AnnB]

I don't know if there's anything in this research guide from the National Archives which might help - I'll leave you to plough through it

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/teacher-training/

 

[Bay Horse]

Thank you, Ann. I can see some useful stuff in there already!

 

[Bay Horse]

His occupation on his death cert reads 'A Schoolteacher (pensioned)'. Perhaps I'm reading too much into this. I expected 'Retired schoolteacher'.

 

[Daft Bat]

His occupation on his death cert reads 'A Schoolteacher (pensioned)'. Perhaps I'm reading too much into this. I expected 'Retired schoolteacher'.

It's only as good as the knowledge of the person registering the death.

 

[Archie's Mum]

Isn’t retired and pensioned the same thing?

 

[Bay Horse]

Mm. His son, with whom he'd been living up to then. He moved quite a distance away from his family, at an age where older people generally moved closer to be with their families. Maybe a rift.

It is, Sue. I'm just overthinking things, I think.