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London Electoral Registers
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Kense | Report | 5 Feb 2013 22:18 |
No Julie, it is the electoral roll images that I am referring to. I am assuming you are using Ancestry. Because they used OCR to do the transcriptions there are a lot of errors. Poor typeface and dirt marks on the original can cause many people to be missed. |
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Julie | Report | 5 Feb 2013 19:32 |
Hi, I have seen the actual images for the 1901 & 1911 census entries, granted the 1901 entry took a bit of finding as the patients at the London Asylum are identified by initials not full names, although birth places, ages & former occupations are shown. As my ancestor was not a Londoner by birth & had a uncommon occupation I am convinced I have his entry in 1901. |
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Kense | Report | 5 Feb 2013 18:38 |
Julie, did you look at the images of the electoral roll or were you relying on the transcribed results of searching for him in 1901 $ 1911? |
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Julie | Report | 5 Feb 2013 18:26 |
Thanks for the response, I have only just discovered this information so haven't gone down the certificate route yet. However, Uxbridge would be the right regn district for the London Asylum, but the wrong one for the electoral register address. |
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Jonesey | Report | 5 Feb 2013 17:32 |
I suppose the first question to be answered is did he actually own the property? |
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Julie | Report | 5 Feb 2013 17:20 |
I have traced a relative who has entries for most years between 1884 & his death in 1914. However, on the 1901 & 1911 census, where there are no London electoral register entries, he was actually resident in the London County Lunatic Asylum. His wife is listed as "head" on the census data. I am unclear whether the ownership of the property in which the family lived would have given him the right to be on the electoral register even if he didn't reside there - can anyone clarify? It seems rather too much of a co-incidence that the 2 years without electoral register entries are the census years. I have my suspicions that my relative was in the asylum from at least 1901 to 1914, especially as his death regn is at Uxbridge |