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Edinburgh Electoral Register
« on: Tuesday 27 March 18 14:53 BST (UK) »
Good Afternoon. I have been looking at the electoral registers in Edinburgh in the 1930s and discovered my grandfather is listed in 1935 on a "Persons No Longer Qualified as Electors" list. Anyone know what this means please? I know he was away at sea - did that mean he wasn't able to vote even though he obviously had a home in Edinburgh?

Appreciate any thoughts!
Meggy
Stanners, Bell, Ramsay, Kerr, Scougall, Gibb, Archibald, Todd, Laird Johnston, Cosgrove, Robertson.

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Re: Edinburgh Electoral Register
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 27 March 18 15:16 BST (UK) »
Prison, insanity, or elevation to the peerage spring to mind.

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Midlothian: Adam(s), Meikle/Muckle
Leith: Bridges
Edinburgh: Brown
Prestonpans: Bird, Inglis
Fife: Wemyss
Orkney: Brock
Ireland: Sweeney

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Re: Edinburgh Electoral Register
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 27 March 18 15:22 BST (UK) »
Well two of those suggestions could be likely!! :) Actually, I'm wondering if it simply meant that he had moved out of one district therefore no longer on that district's list? I have found a whole family in the same year who are on both lists, (Newly Qualified to Vote) but at different addresses.

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Stanners, Bell, Ramsay, Kerr, Scougall, Gibb, Archibald, Todd, Laird Johnston, Cosgrove, Robertson.

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Re: Edinburgh Electoral Register
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 27 March 18 15:25 BST (UK) »
I'm guessing, but would a name not be removed from the register, rather than left on and marked "no longer qualified"?  Somebody will know.

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Midlothian: Adam(s), Meikle/Muckle
Leith: Bridges
Edinburgh: Brown
Prestonpans: Bird, Inglis
Fife: Wemyss
Orkney: Brock
Ireland: Sweeney