Help with 1939 Reg: Ruth L Gaunt

[lampy]

Can anyone help me decipher the entry for Ruth L Gaunt in the 1939 Register?

I have managed to get it opened via FindMyPast and have the image.

1939RegCleaner2

I can't quite make out the annotations in the first column. On the RH page column11 it does say "See page 24" - however most entries on page 24 are redacted/closed.

On the entry it has her name as Ruth L Gaunt but it is crossed out all the way across from columns 3 to 10. Written in is her name as Ruth M L KArtright.

She married Hugh KOrtright but not until 1959, but the annotation is dated 1954 (she would have been 16 years old at that point)

She was adopted, I don't know if that has any bearing on it. It seems odd that they crossed through the whole entry instead of just her surname (if it was a married name)

I can see a scribbled word (possibly starting with 'r', an 'f' in the middle and maybe ending in 'd'??)
followed by SM dated 9-2-1954. There's the ?ECIP SM? Above that I can make out '12' but no idea what the rest says. (Not sure what SM means)

Any ideas?!

[Milliepede]

Could the word be "informed" with SM being the name of a department or other 

[mckha489]

I think the date with the ECIP entry is 12\5\59 so that must be when they recorded her name change.

[Dundee]

They have crossed out the whole name in order to update both her surname and middle initials but they have the initials around the wrong way.  She married twice as 'Ruth L.M.'.  It is dated 1959.

A lot of the notations on the 1939 register are government department acronyms and nobody knows what they stand for.  If there are three letters it is usually the enumeration district area code.

https://www.findmypast.com.au/articles/1939-register-enumeration-districts

Debra 

[spendlove]

Hi,

Agree with Dundee, they must have divorced as both remarry September Q 1966, Hugh in Bath
And Ruth in Bristol Registration Districts.

Spendlove

[lampy]

Thank you all! Much appreciated. 
That all makes sense.

After a while of squinting at records my brain gets a bit frazzled and I can't see the woods for the trees sometimes   

Indeed, her initials aren't ML- it's Lavinia Mary (LM) and she remarried to one Dennis Reeves.

It's been a frustrating thing, with her being adopted. I guess I keep being overly hopeful that I will find some small detail that could give me a clue as to where she came from 
Her daughter (my mother) was also adopted so I have very little information to work from.