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Topic: colville sq. which electoral district 1932? (Read 570 times)
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bykerlads
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Am researching on A****y 's London Electoral Rolls, trying to match an address to the records-
Can anyone tell me which ward/district Colville Square was in ?
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Valda
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Hi
Using Google maps the only Colville Square which appears today in London is in the modern borough of Kensington and Chelsea - then considering where it is on a modern map - in the metropolitan of Kensington not the metropolitan borough of Chelsea. Wards/polling districts and parliamentary constituencies like registration districts and London boroughs change overtime with the changes in population. Without having a ward map of the time period - which Kensington and Chelsea local studies library will have, that question would be much more difficult to answer.
Kensington and Chelsea local studies library
http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/az/az.asp?searchletter=&orgid=2112
This also presumes the Colville Square on a modern map of London was the only Colville Square. A square is less likely to have had duplicate with the same name somewhere else in London whereas with streets and roads that is more likely.
Regards
Valda
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dawnsh
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I've looked in my 1937 street atlas and there is only 1 Coville Square, in W11 Notting Hill Gate.
Looking at the Kensington & Chelsea site, they do have election ward maps and the street is currently in (4) Colville Ward.
http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/councilanddemocracy/thecouncil/councillors/findyourcouncillor.aspx
http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/councilanddemocracy/wards/colville.aspx
There are more wards now than there used to be due to population growth so I started going through the er's and found the street in Pembridge Ward L, so if you browse County = Kensington and Chelsea, select Parliamentary Division = Kensington, select 1932 and go to image 446.
You can also browse through, go forward 30 pages at a time and look at the tops of the pages to see which ward you are in, the streets are in alphabetical order. Cross referencing with the modern ward maps helps.
It's good fun to see where everyone was but you can now appreciate the problems faced when doing ER searches.
Dawn
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bykerlads
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Thanks, dawn.
Am probably being a bit of a dope here but do I understand that it's possible to look through the 1932 er's via the web-sites you kindly quoted?
If so, could you help me out? I had a look at the sites but I couldn't quite see where to begin.
Thanks again for any light you can shed.
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bykerlads
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Thanks, dawn.
I've managed to master the technique on Ancestry but then realised, looking more closely at my notes that the Colville Square I'm looking for was in Bayswater.
Or at least that's what it says on the birth cert. that I'm using as a source of info. Though the registration district is Kensington South.
I'm unfamiliar with London-does this make any sense to you?
The lady I'm seeking isn't on the ER in 1931 or 32 at the Colville Sq address in Kensington, so I'm unsure where to go now.
( the birth was at St Mary Abbotts, mother was married but no father named on cert. All a bit of a puzzle, but a last ditch attempt on our part to find out about the family of a man now 80, who as an evacuee lost touch with his family in WW2)
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bykerlads
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Thanks, dawn.
St Mary Abbotts was also a hospital, formerly a workhouse.
It might be that the mother was under 21, which would explain her not being on the ER.
On the birth cert. she is a domestic servant, so maybe moved around or was working at the address in Colville Sq.
Perhaps she just "made up " her address for registration purposes.
It's highly unlikely that she's still alive today, indeed she was assumed lost in the blitz, but I'm not sure if I should give her name on-line?
Am going to have another look at the er's, later in the 30's by which time she would be over 21, though possibly married again.
All a bit tricky really.
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bykerlads
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Thanks, Dawn, we did look in the CWGC records but with no luck- guess I'll just keep pegging away at it.
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