R.D. - Rural District U.S.D. - Urban Sanitary District U.D. - Urban District All of these acronyms refer to the type of sub-division of government services but someone from England could explain it much better than I. You have rural districts, urban districts and boroughs in Hampshire as the basic governing unit. For instance Andover is both a borough and a rural district. That surprised me as I thought that Andover would be a borough and have an Urban district but perhaps the Urban district is part of the borough in that case (already regional government in place). >From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sanitary_district Sanitary Districts were established in England and Wales in 1875 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures: Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodiesRural sanitary districts in the remaining rural areas of poor law unions. Each district was governed by a sanitary authority and was responsible for various public health matters such as providing clean drinking water, sewers, street cleaning, and clearing slum housing. In England and Wales, both rural and urban sanitary districts were replaced in 1894 by the Local Government Act 1894 by the more general rural districts and urban districts. A similar reform was carried out in Ireland in 1899 by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. Elizabeth (Blake) Kipp, PLCGS Guild of one-name studies #4600 - LAMBDEN, PINCOMBE and SIDERFIN Webpage: http://ca.geocities.com/[email protected]/ ----- Original Message ---- From: Marcia Huelin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 2:51:43 AM Subject: [HAM] Query re abbreviations Could sks familiar with British death certificates help me with the following abbreviations listed at the bottom of the when and where column on death certificates.Would appreciate any help with this. R.D. U.D. U.S.D. At one time or another I have had these abbreviations listed. Thanking you, Regards, Marcia Huelin For FREE online parish register transcriptions visit the Hampshire OPC at www.knightroots.co.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