Electoral Registers, codes after name in brackets

[Mggirl]

Hi

I've found some of my relatives on the Surrey Electoral Registers for 1945 but there are codes after 2 of their names which happen infrequently I don't understand.

Would SKS be able to tell me what (DMSR/149/I) and (SEZU/107/I) stand for please ?

The chaps I'm looking at are William and William James NEVE; father and son

Thank you

[JohninSussex]

Just a guess, but 4 letters plus 3 numbers looks like National Registration (wartime ID card) numbers, which later became National Health card numbers.  Could it be they were added to the register to distinguish the two people with the same name and address?

[Mggirl]

I like your thinking John. Thank you

I've looked back on Ancestry and over the couple of pages adj to my relatives, there are households with more than one person of the same name in the house.

In those houses, they also have codes in brackets and the last number is unique.

Now to find out what the prefix letters mean ?

MGgirl

[sillgen]

http://www.electoralregisters.org.uk/codes.htm   may help.   there is another thread about this somewhere on Rootschat too.

[JohninSussex]

http://www.1911census.org.uk/1939.htm
has some information about the ID numbers.  The four letters indicate the enumeration district where the person was living in 1939 (or where they were born if later).  And from what that page says, the "/I" you have quoted may actually be a number 1 meaning first in household.

So both of your Williams were the first or only person in their household in September 1939, but they were living in separate ED areas then.