TheGenealogist releases over 260,000 individuals in a new selection of Poll Book records
TheGenealogist has just released over 260,000 records into its ever growing Poll Book Record Collection. This useful resource for family historians can be used to find the address of an ancestor's residence from the period before and after the census records. The newly released Poll Books range from 1747 to 1930 and join records that also cover periods between the census years.
The release allows researchers to:
- Find ancestors who had the vote
- Discover where ancestors were registered to cast their ballot
- See the nature of their qualification to vote, such as owning rateable property
- Search Poll Books that range from 1747 to the 1930s
The records cover 36 different registers of people who were entitled to vote and covers constituencies situated in Bath, Devon, Hampshire, Hertford, Kent, Lincolnshire, London, Monmouthshire, Northumberland, Rutland, Scotland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk and Surrey.
They join the millions of electoral resources on TheGenealogist which include Electoral registers, Voters Lists and Absentee Voters.
Read TheGenealogist’s article at:
https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2020/poll-books-and-electoral-rolls-used-to-locate-ancestors-address-1296/
COMMENT: From what I can see, the 'Scotland' collection is actually one book for Edinburgh! It's the Street List of Electors of the City of Edinburgh from 1854, available in the site's 'Polls and Electoral Rolls Searchable Books' database (rather than the similarly sounding 'Poll Books' database, which has no Scottish records). Certainly handy if you have ancestors in the capital in the mid-19th century!
(With thanks to Nick Thorne)
Chris
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