Genealogy Chat

Hi

Just wondered if anyone can tell me what year the electoral rolls began again after the war. Reason I ask is that I cannot find out what happend to my great grandmother after the 1924. I have been unable to find a new marriage for her or a death.

Her name was Elizabeth Sims (nee Ringwood), she was last living in Billericay Essex in 1924 when she had her youngest daughter. Her husband died in 1966 in Essex and the death was registered by one of their daughters.

My aunt thinks that she may of died in childbirth or after her youngest child (1924).

I dont recall her bing around when I was little at my nans house and she was never mentioned. Unfortunately my nan is no longer wiith us for me to ask.

Any suggestions would be very welcome

Thanks
Tracie.

Hi Amanda

Yeah I did look at that, but I have a child born to her in 1924 (Ihave purchased the cert) and I also have her birth cert she was born in 1887 in Ireland.

Not sure where to turn to next lol

Tracie

Tracie
is it possible she returned to Ireland and died there?
Have you checked out the electoral registers for the last known address.
She may not have had a vote in her own right but might have had the right to vote through her husband.
You can search the electoral registers in local libraries.
Good Luck
Von

Hi Tracie

My history is useless, but if your grandmother was on the 1924 electoral roll she was one of only a small number of women entitled to vote. Or do you mean you know she was alive because of the birth of her child in 1924?

Most women could not vote until 1928, and most didn't bother to get registered then.

It is possible she was in a care home and nobody wanted to talk about it.

Is the child born 1924 still alive? Could you ask him/her, or a child of him/her about their mother/grandmother?

Hi Von and Madmeg

I know she was alive in 1924 because of her having a child, sadly that child died in 1928. Her father had passed away in Ireland by the time she married in 1908 and I am waiting on a death cert for who I hope is her mother, and she had also gone by 1924. Do all libraries have the electoral registers?
When her husband died he was living with one of his daughters (well his death was registered there), and she was never mentioned and I have been unable to find any mention of the funeral in the papers.

Thanks for your help

Tracie.

Electoral Rolls are normally held by the main reference / archive library for the area concerned.

If you don't have an address then old Electoral Rolls won't help as they can not be searched by name. They can only tell you who was registered for a specified address.

You can only search recent Rolls by name through one of the commercial sites offering such a service, for which you have to pay..

Tracie
Have you considered this one?
Deaths
Mar Quarter 1926
Sims Jane E age 36 Billericay 4a 627
Von

Is this a duplicate posting? Didn't we have a Billericay just a couple of days ago? I feel so frustrated that new people are not being properly advised on how to post messages. It waste's our time, but even worse, it wastes theirs.

Am I right?