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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Cambridgeshire => Topic started by: StanleysChesterton on Wednesday 11 July 18 11:46 BST (UK)
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I've got a photograph of a lady outside her house in ~1958-1960 and all I know is her surname and address.
Is there any way to lookup electoral rolls for about this time?
It'd be nice to be able to "publish" the photo online, perchance to reach people who have her in their tree, but with just the name "Mrs Edwards" I can't move forward with that!
The address is St Andrews Road, number 3.
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Hi
L. Edwards, 43. St Andrews Road, Cambridge
Councillor G. Edwards, 47, St Andrews Road, Cambridge
(1935 Cambridge Directory, Ancestry)
Ray
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That's probably not the person... trouble is, it's such a common name.
It's specifically number 3. She took in lodgers, one of her lodgers took the snap with his camera.
It might be an idea for me to toss it onto a local family history Facebook page.... that might also yield results from people who know who it is, but wouldn't have known the address.
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. . . . . and it may be registered as "Belle Vue" St Andrews Road
R
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Possible..
1960
Cambridge - No 1 division, polling dist p. part of East Chesterton ward.
Ethel Edwards, 3 St Andrew's Road.
There are 3 others at that address, none have the same surname.
Geoff
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Possible..
1960
Cambridge - No 1 division, polling dist p. part of East Chesterton ward.
Ethel Edwards, 3 St Andrew's Road.
There are 3 others at that address, none have the same surname.
Geoff
I'd say that's a bullseye. Exact/correct year, exact/correct address in full, exact/correct last name. I got the impression that the landlady was a sole resident, so not one of a family or sisters...
I have the phone book, but it just says "E Edwards" - and just an E is no good to man nor beast :)
Brilliant!
My money's on Ethel being a bullseye.
Cheers for that!
Re the 3 others, does one have the initials CFH?
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EDIT: I've done a bit of "research" assuming that's correct - and a lot more of what I can throw together without documentation adds up. So I am 99.99% sure that once I've done a bit more checking and cross checking, Edith will turn out to be correct (and I think it's Edith Doris Edwards and I think she died in 1963 at the current time of "just dabbling around taking a quick look with a heap of assumption). Other stuff I've discovered made it hang together more coherently too.
So thanks for the name!