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Mary Jane Barnett - Glasgow *****completed****
« on: Monday 18 June 18 19:42 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone I have come across this note in some family belongings, however I don’t know where to start in trying to trace this relative. I looked at a couple of Scottish census I can’t seem to find her. Any ideas how I could track her?
Keenan (Co. Antrim Ireland - Scotland)
McCart (Co. Antrim Ireland - Scotland)
McMullan (Ballymoney Co. Antrim)
Westwood (Kingswinford)
Bray (Colwell, Herefordshire)
Stanley (London)
Moss-Smith (Altrincham and surrounds)

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Re: Mary Jane Barnett - Glasgow
« Reply #1 on: Monday 18 June 18 19:51 BST (UK) »

Any date on the envelope or note?

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Re: Mary Jane Barnett - Glasgow
« Reply #2 on: Monday 18 June 18 19:53 BST (UK) »
Do you have any rough idea of a date? Can you discern any sort of postmark?

 If so -- you may be able to look at electoral registers for that[/b] address. That should show who was living there - head of house anyway if it was before women obtained the vote!
 
The old Electoral Registers for Glasgow -- may be in the local library -- but I am not sure about that.

Just a thought.

(Edit -- sorry didn't mean all that to be in bold type -- I'm not shouting honestly!)
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Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Southern Ireland, Scotland.

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Re: Mary Jane Barnett - Glasgow
« Reply #3 on: Monday 18 June 18 19:57 BST (UK) »
Hey all thanks for your replies I’d hazard a guess at early 20th century. I’m in Ireland so are electoral rolls on scotlandspeople?
Keenan (Co. Antrim Ireland - Scotland)
McCart (Co. Antrim Ireland - Scotland)
McMullan (Ballymoney Co. Antrim)
Westwood (Kingswinford)
Bray (Colwell, Herefordshire)
Stanley (London)
Moss-Smith (Altrincham and surrounds)


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Re: Mary Jane Barnett - Glasgow
« Reply #4 on: Monday 18 June 18 20:09 BST (UK) »
I have just 'googled' Electoral Rolls, Scotland --- it seems that there are Glasgow ones on the Ancestry website - searchable by name.

https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61020

You would need to have a subscription though.
Places of interest;
Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Southern Ireland, Scotland.

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Re: Mary Jane Barnett - Glasgow
« Reply #5 on: Monday 18 June 18 20:46 BST (UK) »
I have found her thank you so much 👍
Keenan (Co. Antrim Ireland - Scotland)
McCart (Co. Antrim Ireland - Scotland)
McMullan (Ballymoney Co. Antrim)
Westwood (Kingswinford)
Bray (Colwell, Herefordshire)
Stanley (London)
Moss-Smith (Altrincham and surrounds)

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Re: Mary Jane Barnett - Glasgow *****completed****
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 19 June 18 10:20 BST (UK) »
Really pleased for you.
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Re: Mary Jane Barnett - Glasgow
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 19 June 18 10:47 BST (UK) »
I have just 'googled' Electoral Rolls, Scotland --- it seems that there are Glasgow ones on the Ancestry website - searchable by name.
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61020
You would need to have a subscription though.
You can search many of the Electoral Rolls for Scotland at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk free of charge without having a subscription to Ancestry.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Mary Jane Barnett - Glasgow *****completed****
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 19 June 18 11:04 BST (UK) »
Thank you Forfarian -- I did look on Scotland's People, but couldn't actually see any Electoral Rolls. That is useful to know and I will search more thoroughly next time -- did notice a 'Search by Place' -- and looked at that section -- but didn't really understand it.

Must try harder next time.
Places of interest;
Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Southern Ireland, Scotland.