1939 - what have you found?

[andrewalston]

I've been going through the register filling in things for my one-name study.

When looking at registration dates on birth certificates I have, the interval after the birth seems to average one week.

From the number of births registered in the quarter following the d.o.b. given in the 1939 Register, visits to the Registrar seem to have been getting later as the years progress. A minority of the March birth registrations from about 1890 onwards would be in the Jan-Mar quarter, for example.

It's nothing to do with the tax year - the same applies year-round.

[clairec666]

When looking at registration dates on birth certificates I have, the interval after the birth seems to average one week.

Seems fast compared to my family. I've not got many birth certificates, but they all seem to register about a month after the birth, from the 1840s to the 1920s.

[StevieSteve]

Not having confirmed entries in earlier Censuses, I found one cousin locked up in Parkhurst in the '39

Er, hooray!?

[andrewalston]

I purchased a few images in the first couple of weeks after the Register went live.

I've just noticed that entries which were blacked out when I purchased the images are now visible. My late aunt Sonia has appeared (without prompting from me), along with half a dozen others from the same sheet. Sonia died in 2000, well after the supposed cut-off date for updates of the original register.

It seems that it may be worth scanning the database periodically.

[Alan b]

When the 1939 register first came out I looked for my Granddad and he wasn't there, he died in 1995. A few weeks ago I checked again and he was there is Hampshire, someone I didn't except him to be.

[coombs]

I may have to have another gander at the 1939 register, seeing as many entries have been unlocked. Some are still elusive such as George Musgrave born 18 March 1891. I found his wife and his son in the 1939 register but not him. I did hear that he volunteered for the war even at 48 years old as he was a soldier in WW1.

[JAKnighton]

There was a family story of how my great-great grandfather was fleeced of all his valuable belongings (not that he would have had much) by a housekeeper named "Kate". He eventually kicked her out and got a new housekeeper who he married in 1943.

Lo and behold in the 1939 register there is my great-great grandfather living with a housekeeper named "Kate". Now I know her surname and date of birth so if I wanted to I can find out what became of her.

[jds1949]

I don't know if this just happened in Lancashire, but several of the entries that I have looked at have entries on the extreme right hand side - the facing page - which seem to indicate war work - ARP Warden, Auxiliary Fire Service, WVS, etc.

I didn't notice it at first, but once I spotted it I went back and checked ones I'd seen earlier and found several examples.

Useful and interesting for a family historian,

jds1949

[ScouseBoy]

I've been going through the register filling in things for my one-name study.

When looking at registration dates on birth certificates I have, the interval after the birth seems to average one week.

From the number of births registered in the quarter following the d.o.b. given in the 1939 Register, visits to the Registrar seem to have been getting later as the years progress. A minority of the March birth registrations from about 1890 onwards would be in the Jan-Mar quarter, for example.

It's nothing to do with the tax year - the same applies year-round.

          Maybe the registrars office was a substantial distance from peoples home?   maybe you had to phone up and make an appointment?         Impossible to speculate after 100 years, surely?