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Essex / Re: Ilford electoral roll 1945-6
« on: Monday 12 April 10 21:01 BST (UK)  »
I've looked into availability of electoral rolls generally and it seems possible that they could be available in 1936/7 and 1945/6 ... so I'm still hoping.  Very hard for me to get a research day in London!

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Essex / Re: Ilford electoral roll 1945-6
« on: Thursday 08 April 10 22:27 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Flownthenest - this is the right WHO.

I have his birth and death certificates as well as details of two marriages (I'm descended from the first one) but am trying to untangle his love life in the middle. We believe he had two children by another woman some time between about 1940 and 1945, which is why I'm after the electoral roll details as I haven't got her name.

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Essex / Re: Ilford electoral roll 1945-6
« on: Saturday 27 February 10 00:36 GMT (UK)  »
Unfortunately this reference kindly supplied isn't the right WHO . Age and profession not right - mine was a grocer so reserved occupation, dob 1905, this one dob approx 1914 and a soldier ... so would be grateful if anyone could  do the census lookup for me.

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Essex / Re: Ilford electoral roll 1945-6
« on: Tuesday 09 February 10 20:28 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you so much - what an amazingly quick response and a lesson that sometimes the solutions really are the obvious ones even if it doesn't look that way.  I'd missed this on ancestry searches ... the results and relevances work in strange ways sometimes, but have now found it there too.

... and now to look for some children while I wait for the certificate to arrive.

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Essex / Ilford electoral roll 1945-6
« on: Tuesday 09 February 10 01:15 GMT (UK)  »
Is there anyone out there able to do a lookup on the above for me? I would like to know who was living at 13 Ryecroft Avenue, Ilford, in 1945-6 as it could help to solve a longstanding family mystery.

My grandfather, William Henry Osborne (a provisions merchant assistant) lived there with his wife, who died in 1937, and their son (my father). We believe that sometime between 1939-45 WHO had children (two boys?) with a second partner - my father remembers cleaning the pram! Soon after the end of the war, WHO moved to Strood where he lodged with a third lady (Myra Martha Carter), who later became his wife . (Both of them died around 1978-80)

I am trying to find out the name of the mystery second lady (first name may have been Mary) - according to my father she stayed at 13 Ryecroft Avenue after WHO moved out ... but we have no idea whether or not they married.  Any help gratefully received as Essex records are a long way away from where I live.

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