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Armed Forces / Re: Military wives late 18th/early 19th century
« on: Sunday 16 October 22 10:45 BST (UK)  »
Forgive me for taking this on a slight tangent, but as a previous post says, many 'unofficial' wives followed their husbands on campaign, and it is hard to find any records of individuals, but there is an amazing (probably unique) first-hand account written by one of them, 'Catherine Exley's Diary', published in 2014 with lots of contextual and background information. It is available in paperback, and well worth a read if you have an army wife in your ancestry during the Napoleonic Wars:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catherine-Exleys-Diary-Times-Peninsular/dp/095638479X

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The Common Room / Re: 1939 Register question
« on: Wednesday 07 September 22 01:16 BST (UK)  »
A page at the end of a book often consists entirely of 'continuation entries' - you can also tell by the fact that the schedule numbers are out of sequence, and often in different handwriting. But most of the the blacked-out lines will be blank, and not actual closed/redacted entries.

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The Common Room / Re: Abstracts of Wills and Administrations with estate duty 1796 to 19thC now online
« on: Wednesday 17 August 22 15:00 BST (UK)  »
These records are the abstracts from wills and administrations in the Country Courts (ie NOT the Prerogative Court of Canterbury) 1796-1811, and they have been online for many years. They are from the period when death duties applied only to bequests outside the family, so they are very useful, but they only apply to a limited number of estates.

For the other registers in the series IR 26, you need to use the indexes in series IR 27 - you can search them by name on Findmypast, or download the individual index volumes from The National Archives - part of their digital microfilm collection https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/free-online-records-digital-microfilm/

The actual registers in series IR 26 (1812-1857 only) have been digitised by FamilySearch, but they can only be viewed on site at their Family History Centres and Affiliate Libraries, and they are not on any commercial site. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/613685?availability=Family%20History%20Library


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The Common Room / Re: 1911 Census Sheet
« on: Sunday 26 June 22 19:51 BST (UK)  »
The image appears to come from Ancestry, who have cropped these pages to show only the address panel, but if you have access to Findmypast you can see the complete pages - from the household schedule image click on 'Extra materials' on the filmstrip at the bottom of the page.

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Worcestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Board of Guardians & Poor law Relieving officer
« on: Tuesday 29 March 22 20:35 BST (UK)  »
Many Relieving Officers were also Registrars of Births and Deaths. The two occupations dovetailed nicely, because Registration Districts were based on Poor Law Unions (at least to start with), and the Board of Guardians was responsible for appointing candidates to both posts.

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Two entries on 1939 register for same person
« on: Sunday 13 March 22 01:03 GMT (UK)  »
It's hard to be sure without seeing the actual entry, but it sounds like a 'continuation entry' described in TNA's guide (Section 8). When a person's line was full (the right hand page we can''t see), they created a new line, usually on one of the pages at the back of the book. The details there would be the copied from the original entry, and any new updates, including name changes, were made to the new one, not the original one. The original entry is usually crossed through in red, and says 'See page [XX]'

If this lady's entry looks like this, that is probably the explanation

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/1939-register/


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The Common Room / Re: 1939 Register
« on: Saturday 05 March 22 03:27 GMT (UK)  »
Registrars were issued with a set of unique 4-letter codes, on a regional basis, similar to those used in the 1939 Register. Each birth register book had its own 4-letter code, and when a birth was registered the child's National Identity number would consist of the those 4 letters, followed by the number of their entry in the book. There were different types of number series; for people who registered late (ie after 29 Sep 1939) for any reason; people who arrived from overseas after 29 Sep 1939; replacement numbers issued for lost or stolen cards, and a 'Demob Register' after the end of the 2nd World War. They also became NHS numbers from 1948

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The Common Room / Re: Peter Robinson's drapers assistants 1871
« on: Saturday 29 January 22 22:06 GMT (UK)  »
Peter Robinson's was never part of the John Lewis Partnership. but the original John Lewis worked there before starting his own business in Oxford Street in 1864. There's a lot of information about the history of John Lewis and the other stores acquired by the Partnership in the John Lewis Memory Store https://johnlewismemorystore.org.uk/

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England / Re: Imminent 1921 Census - Additional costs
« on: Tuesday 04 January 22 23:37 GMT (UK)  »
There seems to be some confusion about the enumeration books. Those are the books we are familiar with from 1841 to 1901, but the Enumerators' Summary Books for 1911 are quite different. They are the books that the enumerators used to list all the household they had enumerated, listing each address, the name of the head of household, and the numbers of males and females in each household. But they also described the type of building, whether it was  purely residential, or retail premises, for example. This was very useful if your shopkeeper ancestor lived 'over the shop' or if their business and home addresses were separate. Not only was the Enumerator's Summary Book the only place that described building use, it was the only place that listed vacant properties, and non-residential premises like churches, factories, workshops etc.

In earlier censuses at least some of this information would be recorded in the enumeration books. So the fact that there are only household schedules, and no summary books, for 1921 is most unfortunate, because it means there is no information on uninhabited buildings. But at least we will have the Plans of Division, which is some compensation. They describe the boundaries and contents of the enumeration districts (which was also in the 1911 summary books) and we don't have anything like that for the 1939 Register which makes it very difficult to work out the location of any particular enumeration district, and absolute nightmare in rural areas

If anyone wants to see what the various schedules, books and instructions for 1921 and other census years, there are lots of examples on HISTPOP

http://histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/Browse?path=Browse/TNA%20Census%20-%20Other%20(by%20date)&active=yes&treestate=contract&titlepos=0 

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