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Registers of Electors
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Maurice | Report | 29 May 2005 01:15 |
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Does anyone know if past registers of electors are available anywhere? I am interested in lists of people living in East Grinstead in the 1960s hoping to find a Hasted there. Regards Maurice |
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Irene | Report | 29 May 2005 02:46 |
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Each Family Records Centre hold the Elec Rolls book for their Districts, County, you won't find them on line. You could always ask the records centre to do a search if you can't get there. Most are in Alpherbetical order by parish. There were a few done by address so you could see who was living in the house but not many. I've looked at Elec. Roll from 1911 I think they started before that. Not forgetting that women over 21 didn't get the vote until 1928, men about 1923. Only heads of house and people who owned property could vote to start with. Irene Irene |
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Judith | Report | 29 May 2005 07:34 |
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Irene is probably correct about very early electoral rolls being alphabetical by parish but by the 1960s they will be like present day ones, arranged by streets within each electoral ward so a search for a name but no address could take a while if the place was heavily populated. The plus side is that you would then find all those qualified to vote in the household (over 21 in the '60s) |
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Maurice | Report | 30 May 2005 19:28 |
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Thank you all for your help. I expect you were wondering how this could help me. In 1964 I visited an address in East Grinstead with my mum, we met one of my grandfathers sisters there. We cannot remember which one! She was born a Hasted but at the time she was about 85 and we think her husband had died.I have managed to collect all the marriage certs of my grandfathers sisters bar one. So I have all the names of the husbands. If I went right through the list of people living in East Grinstead I could possibly identify a name ,if it were Hasted she would be the one that did not marry. If it were any of the others it would show me which branch of the Hasteds moved to East Grinstead. Well that is the theory, Thank you all again Maurice |
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