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The Common Room / Re: Poll books?
« on: Saturday 18 November 23 12:16 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Watson on Saturday 18 November 23 11:10 GMT (UK)
A number of poll books are searchable on Google Books.  For example, I see there are Hampshire ones for 1714 and 1790.  Stuart Raymond has also reprinted a number, which are retailed at affordable prices.

Thanks Watson! I must’ve missed those. I’ll look into Stuart Raymond too.

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The Common Room / Re: Poll books?
« on: Saturday 18 November 23 10:25 GMT (UK)  »
I should add that I have searched Google Books, which is where I have got the aforementioned titles from.

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The Common Room / Poll books?
« on: Saturday 18 November 23 10:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I discovered pool books yesterday, and have had great fun using Ancestry and FindMyPast to find anyone who was able to vote and for whom they voted. Some books appear only to be in local libraries far from me or are out-of-print. Does anyone happen to have a copy of or access to any of the following:

1839, West Yorkshire (looking for Hemingways in Stanley or Lofthouse, Wakefield area; or Lofthouses in the Dunsforths, Ripon area)
1859, West Yorkshire (same again)
Any Hampshire ones, say 1700 - 1872 (specifically the Alton area; looking for Streaters in Alresford, East Worldham, Farringdon)
Any Devon ones, say 1780 - 1861 (I am looking for Wyatts of Plympton St. Mary, which I could not find in the Plymouth poll books on FindMyPast)

Any help would be very greatly appreciated. Please do DM me if there are any costs involved.

Adam

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Essex / Re: Elizabeth Smith, born 1819, Orsett
« on: Wednesday 04 October 23 10:54 BST (UK)  »
I believe this Rebecca was buried in Langley on the 17th of December 1784, though.

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Essex / Re: Elizabeth Smith, born 1819, Orsett
« on: Wednesday 04 October 23 10:50 BST (UK)  »
RE this, much of Chadwell’s records are now on FreeREG, and:

John Rush, buried Chadwell, 4th of September 1817, aged 35
So
John Rush, christened Chadwell, 11th of November 1781, to Richard and Sarah;

George Rush, christened Chadwell, 7th of June 1817.

Doesn’t solve any of the mysteries about Rebecca and Benjamin’s origins sadly, nor what became of Benjamin after 1819 or a christening for Rebecca Rush (Jnr.) allegedly born c. 1807 in Enfield. I did find in Langley a single christening for a Rebecca, Rebecca Corbe, christened on the 11th of June 1780, to George and Hannah.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: ? House, Buckland Monachorum, Devon (1861 Census)
« on: Thursday 27 October 22 12:04 BST (UK)  »
I looked on Apple Maps and found an area called Broom near Crapstone and Yelverston, so not in the village of Buckland Monachorum it seems, but presumably within the parish.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: ? House, Buckland Monachorum, Devon (1861 Census)
« on: Thursday 27 October 22 11:55 BST (UK)  »
Excellent, thanks Ruskie!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / ? House, Buckland Monachorum, Devon (1861 Census)
« on: Thursday 27 October 22 11:15 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I’ve just been looking through a scan of the household of William and Mary Harding in Buckland Monachorum in 1861. I can read that their address is something ‘house’, but can’t make out the first part, other than it may be a ‘B’. Could anyone please take a look for me?

Adam

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Armed Forces / Re: Post corporal?
« on: Saturday 24 September 22 21:25 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for that Davy MacLean! Sorry for the delay; I hadn't been notified of your response.

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