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Offline chrish53

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« on: Monday 23 September 13 20:56 BST (UK) »
A little help here please. The attached is a poll book record for my Wife's relative in the 1800s. It was taken in Epworth, Lincolnshire and I have worked out the W stands for Wife does the Ch refer to children? What is the C? And what does fr stand for?
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Re: Poll Books
« Reply #1 on: Monday 23 September 13 21:47 BST (UK) »
Hi,

I think that the "W", "Ch" and "C" are the initials of the surnames of the candidates. "Fr" could mean freeholder.  :-\

Just found the candidates:  Lord Worsley, RA Christopher, Esq, and Hon. CH Cust.


Nanny Jan
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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« Reply #2 on: Monday 23 September 13 22:33 BST (UK) »
If you go to image 1659 you can see the first page of the poll book showing the names of the candidates http://goo.gl/MFCG8n
The numbers show which candidate each person voted for. In this case Thomas Gilyert gave one vote for Christopher and one for Cust.
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 24 September 13 10:22 BST (UK) »
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Re: Poll Books
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 24 September 13 20:37 BST (UK) »
Wonderful, thank you all, much appreciated.
I tried being normal once, it was the worst 5 minutes of my life!
Chris
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