1939 confused

[Guy Etchells]

The form is at
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kxj/
Cheers
Guy

[rosie99]

Have you considered giving us her name - OK, we can't give you the full information as that is not allowed, but we might be able to point you in the right direction. 

It may also help to give us the names of who she married

[Trishanne]

My parents ran a guesthouse in a small market town in Westmorland.  They had 8 guests staying there the night the register was taken.  One lady who we kept contact with for many years, was a teacher at the local school and she was from Liverpool.  The other 7 guests could have been from anywhere in the country, but I am sure their ancestors would not think to look on the register of a small market town like this.
There were a lot of mistakes on this particular register which I am trying to sort out, with no luck at the moment, so the details against each name are incorrect, so really nobody has a chance of tracing these people.
It just goes to show how difficult it can be to trace your ancestors using the 1939 register.

[suey]

The form is at
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kxj/
Cheers
Guy

Many thanks Guy.  They still want an address  but I'll give it a go and see what happens.

[suey]

Have you considered giving us her name - OK, we can't give you the full information as that is not allowed, but we might be able to point you in the right direction. 

It may also help to give us the names of who she married

rosie99 I honestly don't think we'll find her owing to the fact that the powers that be will think she is still alive.  She thought that she was born in 1919.  She was brought up in care homes, when she married for the first time she applied for her birth cert. thinking she needed it for marriage.  Her birth was never registered.  Birthdays were not celebrated and she took a guess at her age from when she left the children's home.  Back in the 1970's another search was made when she applied for a passport.  In the end she had to swear an oath and gave her birth year as 1919.

It wasn't until she was well into her 80's that I came across a baptism record dated December 1916.

[suey]

Thank you to everyone who replied with suggestions.

  I've found her    Badly mis-transcribed, no surprises there    Just a question of trawling every female with the same birthday, year by tedious year.

Suey

[rosie99]

That is good news.  Who was she mistranscribed as 

[suey]

That is good news.  Who was she mistranscribed as 

Stingon instead of Sturgeon which didn't come up on a variants search    I found her eventually under her first married surname.   

Quote from NA website " The Register was continually updated while National Registration was in force, when it was a legal requirement to notify the registration authorities of any change of name or address. This ended in 1952, but since 1948 the Register had also been used by the National Health Service, who continued updating the records until 1991, when paper-based record-keeping was discontinued".

Despite another marriage in early 1953 and three further children (born in hospital) her record was not updated with her second married surname.

[rosie99]

My mothers was not updated from her maiden name when she married my father, or on the numerous occasions she was in hospital.  Some obviously slipped through the net