1939 Register - Annotations and What They Mean?

[josey]

By 1989 there would have been 50 years worth of new-borns not included on the register

No reason why there shouldn't have been a parallel register of those born after the original 1939 register was completed...

My ID number - I was born in 1944 - became my NHS number until they were replaced in 1995/6. From wikipaedia: the previous system founded on wartime identity card numbers which in England and Wales used letters and digits.. I can still remember mine entirely [sad I know] & it was 4 letters + 3 integers.

[rosie99]

You are right, guess I should have said National Health Service Numbers.  I wonder why these are not annotated on the register.

The NHS did not start until 1948. 

As the register already had a reference number allocated to everyone listed I doubt it would be necessary to add another reference

[CarolA3]

The Register is a snapshot of everyone living in England and Wales on 29 September 1939 (except those already in the armed forces).

Details of anyone born later, plus those who were missed from the first list, were written into additional books which have not been released.

Carol

Added - I believe this information is freely available on FindMyPast.

[Mean_genie]

For births after 29 September 1939 each birth register book was assigned a unique 4-letter code, and each birth has an entry number. This ensured that each newborn had a unique 4-letter, 3-number identity card number, which later became their NHS number.

[rosie99]

This ensured that each newborn had a unique 4-letter, 3-number identity card number, which later became their NHS number.

On a letter I have seen dated 2017 for someone born 1948 - their NHS number is 10 numbers no letters   

[gifford2011]

Rosie that's because everyone's number has been changed to a 10 digit one. Maybe from 1992 when the Register stopped?
I haven't a clue what mine or my children's are but I know the original ones!
In fact when asked I always give my original one too!

[Mean_genie]

I once spoke to someone who had been involved in the project to computerise the database; he told me that the existing numbers were in so many different letter and number formats that it was simpler to scrap them all and start again.

[Tils-Lilly]

Does anyone have any idea what ‘Ref C/H EX’ means on the 1939 Register?

[patchwitch]

Any ideas? She died in 2004 and her will says she was a spinster.

The register had her maiden name of McDonald crossed through in red and altered to Wilkinson which has also been crossed through and altered back to McDonald. Thanks!