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Another 1939 Register question
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 10 Nov 2015 21:33 |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 10 Nov 2015 12:34 |
My "spare" lady is Eleanor Wotton, b. 1870 so she would have been around 69 when the Register was produced. There is no man of that name in the household so she is probably either single or widowed. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 9 Nov 2015 21:20 |
As I said in my earlier post, the 1939 Register was continually update until the 1990s, as it had formed the basis for the National Health Register. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 9 Nov 2015 20:59 |
Depending on the age of the stranger, do bear in mind that her surname may be the one she took when she later married. |
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AustinQ | Report | 9 Nov 2015 18:30 |
It is an extremely frustrating hobby, but so addictive! Especially when very old members of the family seem to want to avoid the truth, and even tell a few porkies because they're embarrassed to admit their grandfather may have had a few children out of wedlock after their grandmother died!! OK, rant over :-D |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 9 Nov 2015 17:43 |
Austin, I think you are probably right about the family not knowing Alice Scotton's true age but they are a difficult family to keep up with anyway as ages go up and down and they seem to interchange names at will. The George Samuel Henry Day given as Alice's father on the marriage details you have given is, in fact, Alice's younger brother. Her father was Samuel George Day. Father and son both sometimes use the name Samuel and sometimes George. |
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AustinQ | Report | 8 Nov 2015 16:53 |
My Grandad's birth is also a year out on the 1939 register. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 8 Nov 2015 15:54 |
Just been doing some checking and there are quite a few errors in the entry for Walter Scotton and family. I'm not sure if it was bad handwriting, bad transcription or they didn't know how old they were. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 8 Nov 2015 10:03 |
Well done. Thank you. I had tried various spellings of their name but missed that one, not helped by the fact that I have Walter's birth date as December 1885 so I need to double check that. |
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AustinQ | Report | 8 Nov 2015 08:51 |
Ooh- found them: SCOTTER |
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AustinQ | Report | 8 Nov 2015 08:47 |
I couldn't see them either- there was this couple- but no other records of others in the household. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 7 Nov 2015 22:54 |
Unfortunately the last definite address I have for them is 1911 but they had a number of children between 1915 and 1931 who were all registered in Camberwell and OH thinks his grandparents lived in East Dulwich which would come under Camberwell. I hoped to find them to fill out the story a bit more but it isn't too important. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 7 Nov 2015 22:17 |
have you tried doing a street search using the last address that you know they had before 1939? |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 7 Nov 2015 20:59 |
Thank you Kay. I don't think that's him. He appears as Walter everywhere else, though transposing names could be down to the transcriber. There's no evidence that the family ever went north of London though I know they went into Kent during the war. |
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Kay???? | Report | 7 Nov 2015 20:44 |
Charles W Scotton 1884 St Albans R.D. Hertfordshire. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 7 Nov 2015 20:09 |
Thank you both. I suspect my missing people may be on the Current Register. |
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AustinQ | Report | 7 Nov 2015 16:53 |
I had difficulty finding my family- in the end I had to search with just a forename and the date of birth. I finally found some of them badly transcribed. |
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Kense | Report | 7 Nov 2015 16:27 |
Some people didn't register on the day for various reasons but they certainly would have had trouble getting ration books without registering. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 7 Nov 2015 16:01 |
I know everyone in the country was supposed to be included in the 1939 Register but how easy would it have been to avoid it and would that have had awkward consequences? For instance would it have affected the issue of ration books? |