1939.....amazing what you cannot find

[Mean_genie]

Like the census, the 1939 Register records where someone was on a single night. It was taken on a Friday, so people in hotels and boarding houses may be visiting for the weekend.

[Siamese Girl]

Like the census, the 1939 Register records where someone was on a single night. It was taken on a Friday, so people in hotels and boarding houses may be visiting for the weekend.

My family can only have been there for a few months at most. I suppose people who moved were officially recorded by other means like National identity cards. What I found interesting is that the 1939 census was updated. My husband's grandfather died in North Africa in 1941 and his grandmother re-married in 1943 and the date of her 2nd marriage and change of name is recorded on the census (but not her and her new husband's deaths when their house was hit by a flying bomb in 1944).

BTW the transcribers managed to read Chila and Turuham  as their surnames instead of Child and Turnham.

Carole

[rosie99]

My family can only have been there for a few months at most. I suppose people who moved were officially recorded by other means like National identity cards. What I found interesting is that the 1939 census was updated.

It was not a census but a register and was used to produce identity cards. ID cards had spaces for change of address

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Registration_Act_1939

[Mean_genie]

Changes of address were noted on Identity Cards, and recorded locally, but not in the National Register. If someone moved to another district you might see the three-letter code for the new district, but not always. You won't normally see deaths recorded on the Register, the 'D-Codes' were usually on the closed part of the right-hand page, although they are occasionally seen on the left-hand page.

[rosie99]

I have just 'unlocked' my mothers record and it does not give her married name.  Her sisters records have the amendment though.

[clairec666]

I have just 'unlocked' my mothers record and it does not give her married name.  Her sisters records have the amendment though.

I found the same for one relative who I'm certain married. In the majority of cases I've found the married name entered later.

[Mean_genie]

Up to 1952 it was a legal requirement to notify all changes of name or address, but after National Registration ended it was a matter for the NHS. If a woman didn't notify her doctor of her change of name, or the doctor didn't pass the information, no-one would be prosecuted as a result. I have one case where a woman married in 1944, and again in 1958, but only the 1944 married name appears in the Register. If your mother married after 1952, and her sisters married earlier, that might be the answer. If not, bang goes my theory!

[rosie99]

My parents married in January 1944, it was their only marriage.  Both of them were in the Forces at the time, their records have the marriage showing on them.

Rosie

[rayz1948]

I have just psted the same thing only there are 4 name changes on the page it seems strange that when they marry the name should have been backdated