Genealogy Chat

When you go to the Records office do you do the look up, or do they? I'm not sure of the house number, I think it's 108 but I would like to check a few either way, can this be done? - Thanks Sam

You have to do your own looking up in a records office - unless you want to pay £18 an hour or more. I've looked at a few registers. Nicely bound volumes on the shelf at Richmond Local Studies Centre, Richmond-on-Thames, and at Westminster Archives. Camden Local Studies Centre, London, has bound volumes, but they are in a storeroom so someone has to fetch them for you. London Metropolitan Archives had very frail originals for Stoke Newington, which I had to order 3 at a time from the storeroom and use special foam wedges to protect them. I think some offices have microfilmed some registers. nell

One other point. The registers are arranged in alphabetical street order, within wards. It saves a lot of time if you know which ward you want as there aren't always guides to them in the registers. Census returns have the parliamentary wards on the top of the forms, so that can help. nell

Thank you Nell, I would rather do it myself so hopefully it's the same in Gloucester Sam

You can probably find out by googling for the records office website. I had a specific electoral roll lookup done for me at Cirencester;s Bingham Library - which solved a family mystery. They e-mailed me the answer. nell

Ok thanks for the tip. I do not actually know the ward, would they if I tell them the street? I actually live in Gloucester so it's easy for me to pop down there Sam

I have a subscription to recent electoral rolls Send me a message with the name and area and I will have a look for you

Thank you Carol but it's 1935 I'm after Sam

6(a) County and Regional Directories County 1793-1939 6(b) City and Town Directories Gloucester 1841-1974 Also variety of other directories for Cheltenham, Stroud, Forest of Dean 6(c) Telephone Directories Broken sequence from 1937 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Electoral registers and polls books 7(a) Electoral Registers Electoral lists, parliamentary and municipal, for Gloucester from 1832; partial sets for rest of county to 1937. 7(b) Poll Books From 1776 THIS IS WHAT THE COUNTY LIBRARY IN BRUNSWICK ROAD HAS ASWELL SAMMY........any trade directories for 1935 would be handy -they will have a street index and a name index,so you could double check if head of house is whom you are after....

Cheers Alter I popped to Gloucester records office this morning. I needed a look up from the local newspaper for 1977 and all these have now been moved from the library to the records office There were no electoral roll records for 1938-1944inc, a young lad there says that is because of the war, would that apply nationally? Karen, they just tell you anyone over the age of 21 initially, that is living at a specific address. It does not give the relationship to one another or anyones ages. More recently the age to vote lowered to 18yrs. Also, I think it was restricted to men only up until the mid 1900's i.e anyone eligible to vote

sammy-yes-no lekky roles during the war anywhere... voting age- women aged 30 1918-1928 included voting age -womwn aged 21 1929 onwards.... sometimes a letter s appears if on military service-this can be seen in the occasions when say someone was on national service so when it suddenly appears in a household you can assume 21 years back for birth year approx. trade directories-women widowed or single mothers can be found as head of house in index.