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Offline SUSANHORTON

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Look up please Oakdale Rd Leyton
« on: Monday 25 March 13 22:05 GMT (UK) »
I am trying to find out if my grandmother lived at 40 Oakdale Road, Leyton / Leytonstone. This would have been about 1931. If she did how long for and what other adults lived there.

My father and grandmother are no longer alive so of course I can't ask anyone. Her surname was Pullen but her first names were variable (Helena Maria) (Eleanor) (Nellie).
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Sue
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Re: Look up please Oakdale Rd Leyton
« Reply #1 on: Monday 15 April 13 17:53 BST (UK) »
Hi I am afraid I cannot look at the Electoral Rolls  :'( They are not kept at Essex Records the East Ham ones are kept at Stratford Library 3 The Grove E15 and the Leyton ones are at Waltham Forest Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH  I will try and find Bernards  middle name for you at the records :-[

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Re: Look up please Oakdale Rd Leyton
« Reply #2 on: Monday 15 April 13 20:58 BST (UK) »
Hello and thank you for trying  :), perhaps one day I shall get to vestry house and or stratford. Regards
Sue
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Re: Look up please Oakdale Rd Leyton
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 21 April 13 20:54 BST (UK) »
I had a look at Susan's thread re Bernard (who could be living so I'm not sure discussion is wise here) -- found a possibly interesting passenger record at FindMyPast (that includes a logical middle name) and sent the info on to Susan by PM.
HILL, HOARE, BOND, SIBLY, Cornwall (Devon); DENNIS, PAGE, WHITBREAD, Essex; BARNARD, CASTLE, PONTON, Wiltshire; SANKEY, HORNE, YOUNG, Kent; COWDELL, Bermondsey; COOPER, SMITH, FALLOWELL, WILLEY, Notts; CAMPION, CARTER, CRADDOCK, KENNY, Northants; LITTLER, CORNER, Leicestershire; RUSHLAND, Lincolnshire; MORRISON, Ireland; COLLINS, ?; ... MONCK?


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Re: Look up please Oakdale Rd Leyton
« Reply #4 on: Monday 22 April 13 08:50 BST (UK) »
Well Janey I do not understand why you do not share this with the Roots chat forum,just what harm it could do I cannot imagine I hate the fact that lots of records are now barred at the Essex Records because some jobsworth at another county records has suggested that it is wrong to show records like school admission books from 1917 or so,we have Ancestry and others making viewing records so much easier for people all over the world and we have others trying to stop records from being available,just look at our census and the USA ones,just why do we have a hundred years rule? in today's computer world it is far easier to find out facts about people and use them wrongly,so many use Tweeting and Facebook,both of which are open to abuse,so a record about a middle name from the 1930's is small beans.

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Re: Look up please Oakdale Rd Leyton
« Reply #5 on: Monday 22 April 13 17:47 BST (UK) »
Thank you Janey for your input and yes you were right, the possibility became a reality; I have 2 living cousins that I never knew existed. I couldn't believe it myself and whats more a descendent is living but a 20 minute car ride away from me.
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Re: Look up please Oakdale Rd Leyton
« Reply #6 on: Monday 22 April 13 19:02 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the PM! And that's a great result.

And for geno500 to update (and to let you know that the electoral roll search doesn't seem to be needed now) -- it turns out that people in question are living, and that is exactly why the rules here prohibit posting details.

Such details may be available at Ancestry and elsewhere, especially for the UK -- but that information cannot be found by internet search engines (google ...) the way posts here can. I would not want to google my mother's name (she was born in 1930 and is very much alive) and find her being talked about here or anywhere else. Or myself. Or anyone living at all, without their knowledge and consent!

(Canada has much stronger privacy protection; there is no way that anyone can access information about the birth of anyone less than 100 years ago, generally, for example. And it is a criminal offence, now, to disclose information from our electoral roll, but somehow Ancestry got hold of voters' lists from before that change, and has given access to personal info that it has absolutely no business having, in my humble opinion: names and addresses of living people, which would include myself except, I assume, that their machine transcription is so bad I can't be found. ;) )

Info about people who may be living just ought not to be discussed here.


edit re below -- oops, sorry! I was muddling the two things up, ignore me. ;)
HILL, HOARE, BOND, SIBLY, Cornwall (Devon); DENNIS, PAGE, WHITBREAD, Essex; BARNARD, CASTLE, PONTON, Wiltshire; SANKEY, HORNE, YOUNG, Kent; COWDELL, Bermondsey; COOPER, SMITH, FALLOWELL, WILLEY, Notts; CAMPION, CARTER, CRADDOCK, KENNY, Northants; LITTLER, CORNER, Leicestershire; RUSHLAND, Lincolnshire; MORRISON, Ireland; COLLINS, ?; ... MONCK?

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Re: Look up please Oakdale Rd Leyton
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 23 April 13 11:36 BST (UK) »
The 40 Oakdale Rd electoral roll  1920's 1930's is still needed as not related to the "living relative" thing but my grandmother and her husband who have passed away. I want to be certain that it was their address. Just a recap on the names that might be there "George Pullen" and Helena Maria or Eleanor or Nellie Pullen. All I know is that my dad now deseased was heading back from the states to that address and I wanted to know if it were his mums.
Thanks
Sue
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