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Could 1953317 possibly be a service number for the Royal Engineers? thanks all

Thank you to all who took the time to answered my query, very interesting and helpful.

Thanks all for the replies. The entry is for a man, 27 years old when the 1939 Register was taken and not yet in the military. His wife's name is...

Good tip , I also sometimes put Mr instead of the first name.

My uncle (a lieutenant in the army but home on leave was on the 1939), don't go thinking all forces personnel would not be shown on the register some...

Thanks for all of that! I had the birth dates for the sisters, but not when they were registered. And yes, sorry, I was just giving forenames and...

Little tip for Adam in view of Chrissie's post & Val's reply :) perhaps "John Hinson Pepper and his wife Eliza" would have clarified the surname of...

Hi Donna and welcome to FTF:) If you read Elaine....Spain message to Pol #5, it applies to your message too, i.e Pol hasn't been on the site for a...

Ah, thanks Val, I understand now. Hinson sounded like a surname, so I misunderstood.

Chrissie from what I found the father was John Hinson Pepper.

Dear Scattysally: I have been searching for information on Henry Holbrow who married Caroline Forsdike at St. Bride's Church, London for a long...

I'm a bit confused. If his father was Hinson and his mother Pepper is his name Frank Hinson (not Pepper) or was he born out of wedlock?

No luck with finding Frank's pob. I note that altho twins Mabel and Minnie were b 23/08/1871, their births were not registered until 25/06/1872. The...

John King was born in 1776, so it's not impossible! Thanks.

Possible but Warminster Ancestry Wilts CofE Deaths and Burials Susannah King b abt 1791 aged 32 Burial 19/02/1823 St Denys and St Lawrence...

It reads like a cross-reference to me. If it was a male, could it be to do with a man later entering the military? When the register was compiled,...

Is this the record of a woman whose surname has been altered to her new married name? It would help if we could see the whole line. I think the...

Jay, 1864 was when statutory birth and death registration started in Ireland. I think the authorities at that time just saw it as anomalous that...

Thanks!