Addendum to 1939 Register Entry

[PeterProg]

I know that the Register was used for many years after its original creation, being updated for changes of name and moves to new areas etc.

I am interested in this entry - pictured in this post - where a three-digit Code has been added to the existing Register entry directly above the addition of 'Louise' to the original named entry.  I believe that this is an Area Code and reflects the family in question's move to a new location from the address that they were at in Folkestone at the time the Register was compiled.

This Area Code is difficult to read.  My best guess is 'EHA', which is the code for Eastbourne in East Sussex, but are there any other suggestions?

[Andy J2022]

I don't think it's a district code. In my experience these are usually written on the left hand side near the address or schedule number. I think it is more likely to be Ella as the FindMyPast transcriber has recorded it. Why the additional names were added is a different question. I can find no other results for the couple with this surname, such as electoral register entries.

[hanes teulu]

Is this Emily?
Death Registration
Emily Brodie, age 74, Jun Qtr 1956, Henley, 6b 793

Probate

[hanes teulu]

Electoral Roll 1929
North Ward - Henley on Thames
Address - 44 Hart Street

Brodie Bartholomew
Brodie Emily Louise
Smith Jane

Bartholomew must be 21 or over - so age does not fit '39 Registration of Bartholomew Webb Brudie/Brodie.

[PeterProg]

That is indeed Emily.  Her forenames were certainly Emily Louise, but there was never any 'Ella' associated with her name.

I know where they were in the first years after the War and then Henley after that.  It is this 'EHA' that has me intrigued as a pointer to a possible Eastbourne location at some point during the War years.  But if not an Area Code, and it is certainly not 'Ella', what else might it be?

[Andy J2022]

Well whoever added Louise to her forenames also added the amendment above her date of birth, even though from her death details which hanes teulu provided, 1882 appears to be the correct year of birth. And the words following which refer to the date 29 Jun 1946 are also in the same ink. Do you have any idea of the significance of that date?

[PeterProg]

To my eyes, there are two sets of amendments, clearly written in two different hands at two different times. 

The birthdate was amended at the same time that the date 29-6-48 was added along with the 1939 Register Area Code DYD, which corresponds to Henley.  So this amendment occurred in 1948 at Henley, probably associated with the advent of the new NHS.

The author of the other changes - the addition of Louise and what might be 'EHA' above it - was using a different pen, with a noticeably thicker nib.  I have assumed this amendment pre-dates the 1948 amendments, but cannot be sure of course. 

So I'm still left with the question of the meaning of this 'EHA' annotation, if indeed it is EHA and whether it is an Area Code.