I’ve done genealogy for years. The “h” stands for head of household and the “r” is resident. Stanley being the head of the house and Madelyn, the wife, is residing in his house. You have to remember the times back then.
Whether they actually lived there, I don’t know as I wasn’t there. However, I doubt very much the bouncing bundle ever spent a day there.
thanks, that’s what I recall being told about the directory entries. ‘h’ is for head of household and ‘r’ is for resident, and it’s fairly obvious, because if all those entries with an ‘r’ were to stand for ‘rear’ then Honolulu would be full of little bungalows...every residential property would have one.
I’ve done genealogy for years, too, and sometimes the “h” means homeowner and the “r” means renter. It depends upon the system used by the publisher or creator of the records. Sometimes, “r” means rear.