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From: George Brander <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Fw: A query...
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:54:48 +0100
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Fran

The SUEC 246/2 on the bracelet is most likely the wartime National Identity
Number. If this is so the SUEC represents the district or area, the 246 is
the schedule line number used by the enumerator and the 2 after the slash
indicates that this person was second in the household. In most instances
/1 is the father or head of household, /2 is the mother and /3, /4 , etc
are the children. Of course all households were not like that.

In my case my number was SUHT 81/7 as I was the seventh in the household at
time of registration, coming after my grandparents, father and mother and
two older sisters. The SUHT indicated that part of Aberdeen where we lived
at the time of registration in 1939 which was Orchard Street.. I have never
been able to find out the codes for the different parts of the country but
the SU on the bracelet suggests to me that Mary Mearns was possibly
registered in Aberdeen or Aberdeenshire and the /2 indicates that she was
second in the household.

Hope this is of assistance

regards
George.



On 15 January 2012 07:46, Ronald and Laura Bozzay <> wrote:

> This site has a list of possible meanings:
> http://www.acronymgeek.com/SUEC
>
> This book on the etmology of the Scottish language uses SUEC as part of a
> description for plant life
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=9w8oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA413&lpg=PA413&dq=%22suec%22+abbreviation&source=bl&ots=2PJqpbsdJw&sig=Hx7pIdI0DDoH2TOGvanEzR6IPCQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Gm0ST771G-O-2AXFpZGECg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBDgo#v=onepage&q=%22suec%22%20abbreviation&f=false
>
> Seems to be short form for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornus_suecica with
> suecica being the Fauna meaning Swedish .... there are many kinds of
> suecica with Cornus being just one type of plant. There are also junipers
> and algea with this same description. So perhaps the numbers indicate a
> specific type of plant.
>
> http://www.acronymgeek.com/WBTA has 18 possible meanins of WBTA
>
> There was a women's group in England called the British Women's Temperance
> Association dedicated to halting the use of alchohol... Maybe a loca
> group called itself Women's B (for the city, town or area) Temperance
> Association but that is just a guess...
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Laura
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: Fran and Dave <>
> >To:
> >Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 7:21 PM
> >Subject: [ABERDEEN] Fw: A query...
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Fran and Dave
> >To:
> >Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:53 AM
> >Subject: A query...
> >
> >
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I have what looks like an I.D. bracelet. It's small, silver, and has an
> oval face that has "Mary Mearns, SUEC 246/2" engraved on it. Has anyone any
> idea what this might have been for? ID during the war years, perhaps? Also,
> I have a pin that is oval-shaped with an anchor through a red heart in the
> center, surrounded by a white border on which is written "Total
> Abstinence", and then four letters WBTA at the center and the points of the
> pin. Again, anyone have any idea what this might represent?
> >Many thanks for any help at all.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Fran Hastie
> >15641
> >
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George Brander
Torre de la Horadada
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