1939 register

[wotty]

In the 1939 register, my ancestor Kathleen Meehan is shown as living with her parents in Darlington. The entry also shows her later married name of Phipps. However, to the left of her name, in the column where the schedule number is, is (the date?) 13 8 42 and below that the letters XJDM. It looks as if the M may have been written in a different hand to the other letters.
My question is, what are these dates and letters likely to mean?

[Ruskie]

First thought - is that her date of marriage?

[giggsycat]

Hi Ruskie

The marriage to Phipps was 1947 

Giggsy

[wotty]

I may be about to answer my own question  The letters XJD relate to Barry in South Wales which is where she settled with her husband - as far as I know though, she didn't move there until after their marriage in 1947. So what's that other date about?

[Ruskie]

I'll think pass on making any more guesses. 

[groom]

I was reading the other day that the dates refer to when name changes were recorded for the NHS register or for issuing new identity cards and therefore aren't always dates of marriages. However that can't be right in this case, as they are before the marriage. Could they have lived together before the marriage and she taken his name?

[wotty]

I was wondering that too, groom. Maybe she went down there to work and that's how they met - rather than them meeting in the north east, as I had always believed. I'll have to keep digging 

[groom]

1942 was war time, so perhaps she was doing some sort of war work? Their marriage certificate might give some clue - an address, perhaps.

[wotty]

Good thinking there, groom. I know the place and date of the wedding and had assumed that her address would be that of her parents and that his would be down south wales somewhere (because according to family they met at a dance when he was at Catterick garrison during the war). They were my favourite aunt and uncle - should have listened when they were still alive! Got to spend some more money now, then