Thank you so much I would never have found that but it looks as if you are right the R' is underlined and I read it as B' I had never heard of a sanitary district so that is my bit of information learned today. My thanks. June ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny M Benson" <genes@cedarbank.me.uk> To: <ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Birth certificate > June Lee wrote >>Can anyone tell me why in the first column of a birth certificate where >>the address of child born should be there is only a parish with BSD at >>the bottom. > > I think you will find that is actually RSD and it stands for Rural > Sanitary District. You can read about Sanitary Districts at > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_district > > Very often the registrars did not put the full address on Certificates, > but just the local area. > -- > Jenny M Benson > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message