Going by several entries in records etc and also on documents seen the favourite is what Charani has stated Onwards, but there are several cases where I find "no onw" so that one has me puzzled! Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] Question on birth registration index Harold Murray wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if someone can tell me what the (date Onw) means? > Example: > District: Portsmouth (1900 Onw) > > This has had me perplexed for a while. I would have said that it meant Onwards. Where did you see the abbreviation? -- Charani (UK) ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 000723-0, 03/11/2007 Tested on: 3/12/2007 2:14:02 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2007 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com