HODDY ~~~~~~~ Birth, Marriages and Deaths ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ from ~~~~~ St. Catherine's House, London ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INTRODUCTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here are all the records of HODDY which my Father has extracted from St. Catherine's House. I hope that they may be of use to other researchers. The three main files are in comma de-limited format. This format should hopefully make it easy to import the information into a wide selection of database programs, spreadsheets and word-processors. All the records in all of the files are indexed on YEAR+QUARTER. If anyone is interested in the information but finds this format confusing, then they are welcome to contact me at the addresses given at the end of this document and I will do my best to send them these files in the format of their choice. The files contain a little information additional to that found in the indexes at St. Catherine's House. This additional information is the result of some of our own researches. It would have been possible to include a little more information but we could not have guaranteed it's accuracy. Where the information has been included, we have ensured that it is supported in other sources, e.g. census, parish registers, wills etc.. Nearly all of the extra information relates to individuals registered in the County of Suffolk, the main focus of our Family History interests. Not included in the St. Catherines House indexes, is mention of the county in which each registration district lies. We have added this to our records so that the records may be searched more effectively. However, it was no mean task to find out exactly where some of the registration districts (RDs) were, or indeed still are and a little of this may be inaccurate! Unfortunately, my Father didn't recognise the significance of the reference number associated with each record in the indexes and so didn't record them. They are significant because they can be used to locate unknown RDs in relation to those districts where the location is known. Thanks goes to Rosemary Lockie for pointing out this important piece of information and for allowing me to include amongst these files a copy of her useful file CHAPMAN, which is a list of counties and their associated Chapman tri-graph. In the files, I have used the Chapman tri-graph to designate each county. If you know all the Chapman codes then you may be surprised to see the inclusion of LON for London instead of LDN. This because I have classified part of some of the RDs as belonging to London (Greater) rather than splitting London up into Middlesex, Surrey etc. I've found this to be less confusing. THE FILES ~~~~~~~~~ Field names are not found in the *.CSV files but are included here for reference. Also, I've included the length of the fields as they are, more-or-less, in my original .dbf files. This is so that you may set the field lengths in your own applications and avoid truncating the my fields when they are imported. You may find though that you can safely reduce the size of some of these fields. BIRTH.CSV - Contains records of births of HODDY in England and Wales from 1838 - 1954 and is constructed as follows: field length description ~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ DATE 4 Year in which registration was made. QUARTER 1 Quarter in which registration was made. FIRST_NAME 30 Registered first-name. MOTHER 30 Mother's maiden name (see note below). DISTRICT 20 Registration District. COUNTY 3 County in which the RD lies. Note - During 1911, the mother's maiden name began to be added to the indexes. Where we have additional information we have included the mother's maiden name in those records for entries prior to this date. Sometimes we have only the mother's first name, and when this is the case, the name is enclosed in brackets. When the mother was unmarried, we have included the mothers full-name. MARRIAGE.CSV - Contains records of marriages of HODDY in England and Wales from 1837 - 1940 and is constructed as follows: field length description ~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ DATE 4 Year in which registration was made. QUARTER 1 Quarter in which registration was made. FIRST_NAME 30 Registered first-name. SPOUSE 12 Spouse's surname (see note below). DISTRICT 20 Registration District. COUNTY 3 County in which the RD lies. Note - The spouse's surname began to be recorded in the indexes during 1911. Entries in that field for records prior to that year result from our own researches. DEATH.CSV - Contains records of deaths of HODDY in England and Wales from 1837 - 1950 and is constructed as follows: field length description ~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ DATE 4 Year in which registration was made. QUARTER 1 Quarter in which registration was made. FIRST_NAME 30 Registered first-name. AGE 3 Recorded age at death (see note below). DISTRICT 20 Registration District. COUNTY 3 County in which the RD lies. Note - Age at death began to be recorded in the indexes during 1866. Again, entries in this field prior to this time are the result of our own researches. It is prudent to be sceptical of the accuracy of the age recorded here. We have some evidence that the relatives (or whoever registered the death) of many of these individuals recorded, were unaware of the correct age of the newly deceased! MISC_HOD.TXT - contains a few entries from the indexes where there is a similar sounding surname. Some of my ancestors have used different spellings of the surname though there are few in this file who are. This file is in plain ascii and contains birth, marriages and deaths and is indexed on YEAR+QUARTER. FINALLY ~~~~~~~ I am always very pleased to contact other researchers who have an interest in HODDY. Sadly, there have so far been very few. Perhaps these files will be of use to researchers who are interested in the names of the spouses who married HODDYs. I hope so, and please don't hesitate to contact me at the addresses below if you think I may be of help. Please feel free to copy these files and distribute them unchanged to any other researchers who may be interested. Tim Hoddy 70 Gwelfor Dunvant Swansea SA2 7QJ UK Telephone : +44-1792-205704 FidoNet : (2:253/188.20) INTERNET : tim@yacc.demon.co.uk or John Hoddy 17 Eleanor Way Brentwood Essex CM14 5AQ UK Telephone : +44-1277-230344 Many thanks to my father who must have spent many hours wading through all the books at St. Catherines House. I'm glad I didn't have to do it! Thanks too to Rosemary Lockie who first suggested I make these files available on her BBS "Wishful Thinking" in Cheltenham, UK (2:253/188). She's been a big help to me, starting me off with comms and fixing things for me when I still run into difficulties. 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