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1856 Electoral Register
« on: Monday 19 April 21 11:21 BST (UK) »
Can someone please explain this electoral register?
Does it mean that Henry Dyson owned property at Church Street, Mile End New Town?
Bell: Dumfriesshire
Drewell: London
Dyson: London/Leeds
Hooker: London
Hyslop: Ayrshire
Lodge: Middlesex
Manson: Ayrshire
Palmer: Dumfriesshire
Pittuck: Suffolk
Quarm: Devon
Rumble/Rumbold: Wiltshire
Stockwell: London

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Re: 1856 Electoral Register
« Reply #1 on: Monday 19 April 21 20:41 BST (UK) »
Yes. He qualified for a vote in Mile End New Town because he owned a Freehold House at 74 Church Street, even though he lived in Hoxton.

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Re: 1856 Electoral Register
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 07:16 BST (UK) »
Thank you :)
Bell: Dumfriesshire
Drewell: London
Dyson: London/Leeds
Hooker: London
Hyslop: Ayrshire
Lodge: Middlesex
Manson: Ayrshire
Palmer: Dumfriesshire
Pittuck: Suffolk
Quarm: Devon
Rumble/Rumbold: Wiltshire
Stockwell: London