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Title: Edinburgh Electoral Register
Post by: meggy1 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
Title: Re: Edinburgh Electoral Register
Post by: Hibee on Tuesday 27 March 18 15:16 BST (UK)
Prison, insanity, or elevation to the peerage spring to mind.

Hibee
Title: Re: Edinburgh Electoral Register
Post by: meggy1 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.

Meggy
Title: Re: Edinburgh Electoral Register
Post by: Hibee 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.

Hibee