Genealogy Chat

I've not seen this mentioned on here - or it may have been deleted for mentioning the "A" word ;-)

"A" now has the London Electoral Rolls 1835 - 1965 (although it is not complete so expect gaps) :-D

Thanks Rob....Off to hunt!

Chris

I have been immersed in them ;-)

:-) :-) :-)

These give some interesting information about the history of electoral registers

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/69B5A855-1D6F-4FB8-B0BE-25D1BCCF63C3/0/LH_LMA_electoralreg.PDF

http://www.census-archives.com/record-collections/electoral-register-records.html

There are quite a lot of transcription errors due to OCR but the electoral rolls are a very useful sorce.

Where do you find them? Been looking through the card indexes but haven't come across them!
Give me a clue!!

From Home Page

Right of screen

Record Collections then under More Collections select Card Catalogue

Then under Ancestry Database Card Catalogue – type in London Electoral

Then Select -
London, England, Electoral Registers, 1835-1965 




OR on Home Page
Look under What's Happening at Ancestry – towards the bottom of the box is View all new records
Unfortunately this does not seem to be working at the moment

Cheers GlitterBaby!! :-D

As I posted in the London rootsweb mailing list:

I am finding people with less difficulty if, knowing their ages already and therefore knowing when the woman would be able to vote, I put the wife's name such as Jessie Harrison instead of Frank Harrison - in 1918 there was an "a" next to great-uncle Frank's name, and I said to myself absent voter, he was away at war.

Once you find a person, such as I found great-great-uncle Francis McCusker, (not a common name, and I knew where he was from his census and death record), and the parliamentary division was Hornsey and the county or borough was Haringey, I could then find him by putting his name and the areas, and there he was in nine years - I didn't mind that one gave his initial as L and others had the surname not quite spelled correctly because I know that it is him :-)

Nobody has mentioned that the full information is not available to Essentials members, only the more expensive Premium and Worldwide subscriptions.

An iteresting data base!
Ken - having WW, may be we hadn't realised they could not be accessed by Essential Subscribers. No doubt GR memebers would be only too pleased to help...........on seperate thread.

Does anyone know what the abbreviations are next to the names?

Looking at a couple of my post 1900 ones, there are

O
R
NM
Dw

and in one instance ~J after a name.

The letters indicate the qualification for voting
(before universal suffrage)
O by Occupation
R by Residence
NM naval or Military
HO or Dw qualification through husband
B or BP by Business premises
RW, BW and OW as R, B and O but for women

The list is on one of the early pages (about 3 or 4) for each set of images.

Maybe....?

O......owner
R......resident

J...liable for jury service ?

Gwyn

Thanks :-)

"Nobody has mentioned that the full information is not available to Essentials members, only the more expensive Premium and Worldwide subscriptions."

I had forgotten to mention that. We have Premium mainly for the London parish registers.

The letters before a person's name can be found at the beginning of a district and in electoral registration websites :-)

It is worth reading the associated blogs.

hi

does anyone know what the letter J after some peoples name means
, and is there a way of searching by address if you have it, i have my great grandparents address is 1911 from the census in kentish town but cant seem to find them on the electoral anywhere?

thanks :-S

kidsnpets - the J seems to appear post-war (although someone may correct me) and is related to jury service.
As for missing people, it could be that their address is not yet been added, or it could be so mangled by the OCR process that you wouldn't recognise it or individuals are missed completely.(had some real mares with some of mine!!)
PM me some names and your expected address and I'll take a look.

It's possible that the missing people didn't qualify for the electoral roll. All men didn't get the right to vote until 1919.

Missing people could be down to the bad transcription. I found a lot of people listed on the originals but not transcribed.

Despite this, the Electoral Rolls have already solved a couple of long standing queries for me.