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I worked on the railway for 40 years, often in positions with personnel records involvement.
During that time I came across one solitary instance of a person with a One letter surname which I shan't mention as it might breach confidence. The person involved had to have his surname extended to the way the letter itself is spelt to enable a record to be accepted by the computers used in producing pay, rosters etc etc.
Has anyone else encountered a case like this, and if possible without breaching data protection regulations what letters were involved please?

I think Melias were predominently a midlands to Yorkshire chain. They had a store in Boston, Lincs, but my relatives in Cambridge had never heard of them.

I have dug out the penitence file transcript from 1732 for Isabella Luffman of Huntingdon, same surname relationship (if any ) unknown. Must have been terrified all for a bit of name calling

Thanks for this. He could well have applied for that particular contract specially given that the family owned a farm in the immediate area, courtesy of the absence of a married woman's property right in the late 1840s. By marrying his employer's widow, John's brother went from farm labourer to farmer in one easy move.
I was hoping that an advert placed by him would come to light, but now I know where to look just in case.Tahnks again.