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 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. -- Brian Pears (Gateshead)

On 08/11/2015 15:41, Brian Pears via wrote: > 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 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. > > Yes there was a "D" annotation on the right hand page, that was supplied to FMP to allow them to open records of deceased people on the register. There are however various annotations on the left hand page which we can see these include date of birth, date of change of name (possibly due to marriage) and I have one on my brother's record which may be the date of a change of doctor (as he had just gone up to uni.) but could also tie in with when they were notified of a change of name for him. My mother had re-married and he was using the new surname. Cheers Guy