I have received several further emails all saying the same as the one I forwarded to the List on Good Friday so I decided not to bore you all with them, but yesterday I received two more. One saying: >>According to our records, your enquiry NIC-43916-XRQZ6 has been resolved >>and we have now closed our enquiry log.<< And the other said: >>In response to your recent 1939 Register application please see the >>attached document.<< Which was a letter from the NHS Information Centre saying "A search has been carried out in the 1939 register and I can confirm the following:" And it then proceeds to give the details of the three people living at the same address as my grandmother in 1939. The address is given as "2 Broad Lane Sodbury R. D." with no explanation of what RD means, nor any mention of the fact that it was in Yate. My grandmother's name, Marion RUBERY (just one forename, not her whole name - she had three forenames) and DOB 26 Nov 1877 (correct) are given and her Marital status is given as "married" and her occupation as "Domestic duties". So far nothing really new for me there. The interesting thing was the two other people living at the same address, who may have been lodgers, although no relationship is given. They are: William HODGSON, born 29 Sep 1914 (a nice birthday present for him?!), Single, Turner Robert LEIGHTON, born 7 Sep 1882, Single, General labourer William HODGSON died in the Bristol RD in Sep 1994 and he may have been the one married to Margaret B JOHNSTON Mar 1942 Bristol. There are quite a few possibilities for his birth, none local to Bristol. The marriage seems to have produced two children, one registered in Bristol in Dec 1944 (Michael C, married BRIMBLE Sep 1968 Kingswood) and another in Kingswood in Mar 1948 (Jennifer S, married DOEY Sep 1965 Kingswood ) As to Robert LEIGHTON there are three of them of around the right age listed in the 1911 census, two of whom are already married. The third is working on a farm in Wales and said to have been born in "Yorkshire". I can match the two married ones with births in the GRO index matching the places they are said to be born, but I cannot match this one, neither can I find any definite sighting of him after 1939. I'd be very interested to know if anyone has any connection or knowledge of any of these people. At least it came just in time for my evening class on "Census" on Monday! Kind regards Polly

RD in the context you cite usually means rural district, ie the area outside the boundaries of the town which will be identified as UD for urban district. Sometimes you will find RSD for rural sanitary district. You will often find these initials in the first column of birth and death certificates and on census returns HB --- On Sat, 17/4/10, Polly Rubery <polly@rowberry.org> wrote: > From: Polly Rubery <polly@rowberry.org> > Subject: [B&D] Final update on 1939 Register request - Marion RUBERY with William HODGSON & Robert LEIGHTON > To: bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com > Date: Saturday, 17 April, 2010, 9:57 > I have received several further > emails all saying the same as the one I > forwarded to the List on Good Friday so I decided not to > bore you all with > them, but yesterday I received two more.  One saying: > > >>According to our records, your enquiry  > NIC-43916-XRQZ6  has been resolved > >>and we have now closed our enquiry log.<< > > And the other said: > > >>In response to your recent 1939 Register > application please see the > >>attached document.<< > > Which was a letter from the NHS Information Centre saying > > "A search has been carried out in the 1939 register and I > can confirm the > following:" > > And it then proceeds to give the details of the three > people living at the > same address as my grandmother in 1939.  The address > is given as "2 Broad > Lane Sodbury R. D." with no explanation of what RD means, > nor any mention of > the fact that it was in Yate. > > My grandmother's name, Marion RUBERY (just one forename, > not her whole > name - she had three forenames) and DOB 26 Nov 1877 > (correct) are given and > her Marital status is given as "married" and her occupation > as "Domestic > duties".  So far nothing really new for me there. > > The interesting thing was the two other people living at > the same address, > who may have been lodgers, although no relationship is > given.  They are: > > William HODGSON, born 29 Sep 1914 (a nice birthday present > for him?!), > Single, Turner > Robert LEIGHTON, born 7 Sep 1882, Single, General labourer > > William HODGSON died in the Bristol RD in Sep 1994 and he > may have been the > one married to Margaret B JOHNSTON Mar 1942 Bristol.  > There are quite a few > possibilities for his birth, none local to Bristol.  > The marriage seems to > have produced two children, one registered in Bristol in > Dec 1944 (Michael > C, married BRIMBLE Sep 1968 Kingswood) and another in > Kingswood in Mar 1948 > (Jennifer S, married DOEY Sep 1965 Kingswood ) > > As to Robert LEIGHTON there are three of them of around the > right age listed > in the 1911 census, two of whom are already married.  > The third is working > on a farm in Wales and said to have been born in > "Yorkshire".  I can match > the two married ones with births in the GRO index matching > the places they > are said to be born, but I cannot match this one, neither > can I find any > definite sighting of him after 1939. > > I'd be very interested to know if anyone has any connection > or knowledge of > any of these people. > > At least it came just in time for my evening class on > "Census" on Monday! > Kind regards > Polly > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message >

Hi Hilary Thanks for your thoughts, but I think that in this case it probably stands for Sodbury Registration District as this was the basis that the Enumeration was organised on, and not on the basis of the council districts - which is what Rural and Urban Districts would have referred to at that point. But it does illustrate the fact that they should give some guidance as to what it does mean - also as Adrian said it would be nice to have some indication if there were other people at the address whose details they cannot divulge because they do not know them to be dead. I found it most frustrating that I was asked to complete a survey and the only answers were already given, none of which were really apposite in this case, and there was no-where one could add comments or suggestions. Kind regards Polly

<<snipped>> "A search has been carried out in the 1939 register and I can confirm the following:" And it then proceeds to give the details of the three people living at the same address as my grandmother in 1939. <<snipped>> Seems like I was wrong in expecting them to suppress details of other people living at the same address. Looking again at the application form, it states "Data will be provided ... only where the individual is now recorded as deceased". Presumably, therefore, the Register contained the data that those other 2 are now dead - and so I wonder what it would say if anyone else were there who is still alive (or rather - not recorded as dead) - would it say "and X others"? Or just not mention them at all? (Which from a security viewpoint is what it should do) Anyone seen any examples of mentions of still living people? Adrian B