1939 Register up and running (Part 2)

[Norrette]

Names are George Henry Moore & Senta Moore expected to find them in either Kingston upon Hull or Ripon or Harrogate.

have you tried searching on date of birth? There are a lot of people transcribed as question marks.

could Senta have used a different name for registration purposes?

Hi LizzieL I've tried quite broad searches by years for them. I'll try the exact dob now. I've no idea where they might live so can't use the address function for this.

Yes Senta emigrated to the USA in '56.  I wondered if they get struck off the list retrospectively if this happens.  Although I don't know how the NHS/Govt would match up the records if that's the case.

Perhaps there's more missing from the transcription than is to be expected.

Norrette

UPDATE:  Yippee that worked with the birthdate, both together so both must be illegible.  Better dig into my pocket now    Thanks Lizzie

[stephc]

(Re-asking on this thread)
In the right hand information section there is info about ambulance drivers / ARP etc
My male grandfather (bus conductor) is listed as PWC 122/12067
this looks like it was added later

Anyone know what that means ?
volunteer police constable maybe or similar ?

Thanks

[dawnsh]

I have just picked this snippet up from FindMyPast regarding transcription errors

On the transcription pages there is an error report button. If you're on the transcript preview can you please email the errors to support@findmypast.co.uk. Thanks

So you don't have to buy the record to be able to report mistranscription and would suggest adding the reference number from the free preview as well.

[dawnsh]

Hi Steph

If the question hasn't been answered it may be because no-one here knows.

Maybe try contacting FindMyPast

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/help/contact

they have a 'live chat' facility during uk office hours which could mean an almost immediate answer.

[iolaus]

And found an error already (though in their defense it may well have been my great grandmother messing up her birthdate) she was born 24 March 1884, they have (from the glitch shown on here as haven't paid to view the original) it as 24 Mar 1885

[carol8353]

My uncle born 1933 died 1978, is on there with the correct date of birth but with the year of 1936.
So how could they have matched his death up with his birth in the past?

[andycand]

Hi Carol

The Register was a working document and was updated until c1991. In theory if a person died the letter "D" was recorded on the Register and that is what Findmypast would have used to unredact a person who was born less than 100 years ago. Whilst no doubt some errors would have been made by Findmypast in transcribing the records I suspect the majority of the issues people have raised relate to the accuracy of the updates made by civil servants over the 50 year period. Where they advised a person was deceased? Was it recorded against the correct period? Without actually seeing that part of the record we really don't know.

Andy
 

[MattD30]

Hi

I am hoping someone can suggest some ideas to help me locate my grandmother in the register. Her name was Constance Glady Rook and she was born on in July 1919. She married my grandfather William John Donovan in Stepney in 1937, however on the marriage certificate she has taken 3 years of her age (saying she is 21) and called herself Mary Constance Rook. On my father's birth certificate she is down as Constance Gladys Donovan (nee Rook) and yet on the birth certificate of my uncle (born 1940) she is named as Mary Constance Donovan. On a family tree drawn up when I saw born we have her surname as Brook (provided by her or misheard by someone) but her birth certificate clearly says Rook/Rooke. She died in 1992 and all through my life and my dad's life we've only known her as Constance (or Constance Gladys), never Mary. I have tried a number of combinations: Constance, Constance Gladys, Gladys, Gladys Constance, Constance G, Mary Constance, Constance Mary, Mary C, etc and been unble to find her. William appears to be in Stepney although the register has his year of birth incorrectly as 1908 rather than 1907. Can anyone suggest any tips?

Matt

[ReadyDale]

Hi

I am hoping someone can suggest some ideas to help me locate my grandmother in the register. Her name was Constance Glady Rook and she was born on in July 1919. She married my grandfather William John Donovan in Stepney in 1937, however on the marriage certificate she has taken 3 years of her age (saying she is 21) and called herself Mary Constance Rook. On my father's birth certificate she is down as Constance Gladys Donovan (nee Rook) and yet on the birth certificate of my uncle (born 1940) she is named as Mary Constance Donovan. On a family tree drawn up when I saw born we have her surname as Brook (provided by her or misheard by someone) but her birth certificate clearly says Rook/Rooke. She died in 1992 and all through my life and my dad's life we've only known her as Constance (or Constance Gladys), never Mary. I have tried a number of combinations: Constance, Constance Gladys, Gladys, Gladys Constance, Constance G, Mary Constance, Constance Mary, Mary C, etc and been unble to find her. William appears to be in Stepney although the register has his year of birth incorrectly as 1908 rather than 1907. Can anyone suggest any tips?

Matt

As your grandmother was born after 1915 and died after 1991, she will be redacted in the register, so will not show in searches.
Assuming the 1908 William in Stepney you mention is the correct one, I can see he is the only one in the household, so she is not hiding there.
Apart from your uncle, you don't say when any other children were born. If any were born in or before 1939, it is quite possible that your granmother and the children had been evacuated, so may be somewhere you don't expect, but owing to her being redacted, she will be very hard to find.
Sorry