Genealogy

The Society gets many many requests for information from genealogists looking for information about ex L&Y employees.

Unfortunately few personnel records have survived to this day. It appears that most of the original L&Y staff records were destroyed when the company became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in the grouping of 1923, and the details transferred to the LMS records.

However, a few records did survive:

1. a locomotive drivers and firemen register for part of Yorkshire,
2. pay lists of office staff from a variety of departments at the company’s HQ at Manchester Victoria,
3. a Roll of Honour of company staff (listing their job and place of work) who enlisted up to the end of 1915 during the First World War, and
4. another roll which lists those who lost their lives,

all of which are in the National Archive in London.

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=124

The accident records and other staff details from the company’s Horwich loco works also survive and are in the GMCRO, as are two loco shed staff record books for Aintree and Ormskirk sheds.

www.gmcro.co.uk

Membership records of railway unions are held at the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University: www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/subject_guides/family_history/rail/

Sadly, apart from these sources, we are not in a position to help as much as we would like; the Society holds no staff records.

The Society is always keen to hear of new information on staff records; please contact the Information Officer.

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