On 2015-11-09 17:28:12 +0000, Tickettyboo said: > On 2015-11-09 15:51:44 +0000, Brian Pears said: > >> There has been some speculation as to whether there could be some >> annotation indicating death on the part of the right hand page of >> the 1939 Register which we cannot see. Sometimes enumerators make >> errors and put things in the wrong columns, and I'm wondering if >> that's what's happened in a case I've come across. >> >> The entry in question is that of a Mabel CROWDY of 2 Grove Road, >> Willesden DOB 29 July 1900, an Invoice Filing Clerk Ref >> RG101/0981C/005/15. In the first column on the right hand page >> there is a red asterisk followed by the annotation "D250-3 14665" >> in green ink. >> >> Checking in FreeBMD I find that a Mabel CROWDY age 64 had her death >> registered in the second quarter (Apr/May/Jun) 1965. Ref Q2 1965 St >> Pancras 5d 886. >> >> This led me to speculate that the "14665" part of the annotation >> could, in fact, be her DOB 14/6/65 ? Yes, I'm aware that such a >> contraction could lead to ambiguities (eg 21248) but that aside, it >> is certainly possible that deaths that were known to whoever kept >> these registers were normally marked in some such way in another >> column on the right hand page. >> >> Of course, if I was really keen, I could obtain Mabel's death >> certificate to see if she did in fact die on the 14th June. However >> I'm not willing to part with a tenner just to satisfy my curiosity. > > > Always more than one way to skin a cat :-) > Deceased Online, free search. Mabel CROWDY 1965 > gives > West London Crematorium (Kensington) > cremated on 18th June 1965 > date of death 14th June 1965 > > Was she one of your family? or just someone on the same page as one of > yours where you spotted the date? Sorry, slippery fingeritis meant I sent that without saying I have a sub and looked up the details. She was a widow, death registered St Pancras and the name of the person requesting cremation was Dudley G CROWDY (NSR) Not too sure what the NSR means but other entries have things like wife, niece, son so perhaps 'no stated relationship' ? - but that's just me guessing. -- Tickettyboo