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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: richardanthony on Tuesday 19 November 24 09:02 GMT (UK)
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I am trying to help someone with their family history and have come across a strange situation I cant explain. A baby is not with their parents in the 1939 register in Kings Lynn. I have found her mother single living with her mother. The baby was born in Kings Lynn [about 3 months old] is living with a widow and her son in Loddon Norfolk. I can find no connection between the families at all. On the 1939 register for the baby there is an annotation that reads Vide NR MO. I am assuming this means look at or refer to record NR but no idea what MO means. For what reason would a baby be living with a stranger so early after birth? The mother married in 1940 and took the name of the wifes husband and was living with them in later life. What does MO mean
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The notation appears to have been written at the same time as the name change after her mother's marriage. The indexed birth registration was altered in 1940, probably to legitimise her after the parents' marriage. I don't know what the letters stand for, but I think it would be a reference to the surname change.
Perhaps she was evacuated as they thought it would be safer, or there was nobody able to look after her while her mother worked.
Debra :)