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From: Jenny M Benson <>
Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Birth certificate
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:18:54 +0100
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June Lee wrote
>Can anyone tell me why in the first column of a birth certificate where
>the address of child born should be there is only a parish with BSD at
>the bottom.

I think you will find that is actually RSD and it stands for Rural
Sanitary District. You can read about Sanitary Districts at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_district

Very often the registrars did not put the full address on Certificates,
but just the local area.
--
Jenny M Benson

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