lol 1939 Register - if you know enough...

[Merry]

I couldn't find my maternal grandparents who moved house around the time the register was taken. I found their old house and new house, but they didn't seem to be living at either of those places. So, for 12 hours or so I gave up.....

Today is a new day, so I thought I'd try another tack.... These are the facts I was working with....

Grandfather, Walter Henry Clark b 1 Apr 1888 male married occ interior designer/architect/civilian worker for the army
Grandmother, Winifred May Harriet Clark b 8 Nov 1892, but generally lied about her age, losing up to four years, female married, occ housewife

They had two children both of whom were still alive in 1991 so their records should be closed. If they were living near to either of their two possible addresses then I needed to look at either Hoddesdon in Herts or Swindon in Wiltshire.

Today I chose to begin with my grandfather's dob with male and married (too many results) so also added occ architect as that was the only job he held qualifications in, though it wasn't the job he was doing in 1939. There were six matches, one in Hoddesdon, so I investigated that and found the following people living in the same household:

Brian J Redshaw 1888 (has Walter's dob and occ)
Joyce A Pavitt (Redhsaw) 1895 (has my gran's birthday but wrong year as expected)
Kate Pallett 1924 (has my mum's dob even though she is still living. Her name isn't Kate or anything similar)

There's one closed record which I bet has matching dob for my aunt who died in 2005.

So, I wasn't going to purchase this record because all I wanted to know was whether my gran lied about her age on it. Now I want to purchase it to see what sort of **** ** has been made!! (and I wonder when they think mum died?!!!)

The name Brian Redshaw doesn't seem to exist until the 1920s, so I don't know where they got that name from. I feel like fmp are trying really hard to extract my money!!!

My grandfather was mildly dyslexic - a fact he used to joke he kept hidden with poor handwriting, but it wasn't that bad!