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Appointment Records

Our Archive’s appointment records are a useful source of information for family historians. Appointment Books in archive class POST 58 provide a register of all employees from 1831 to 1956. Arranged by year of appointment and then by surname, they give date of appointment, grade and place of work. These are now searchable online via ancestry.co.uk.

Before 1831 Treasury Letters sometimes refer to individual appointments. These are usually indexed according to year and surname.

Examples from our Collection

Here are some examples of records relating to appointments in our collection:

Appointment records of W Lum, 1793

Appointment records for W Lum, a Foreign-Letter Carrier.

Page from Appointment Index M-Z, 1905-1907

An example of how appointments were recorded after 1831.

Request for promotion to 'Court Postmaster', 1906

Edward VII's request for his Court Telegraphist, J M Hiley.

Appointment papers for Sir Stephen Tallents, 1933

Extract from appointment papers for Sir Stephen Tallents.