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Offline peakoverload

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Electoral Registers Question
« on: Saturday 08 January 22 20:03 GMT (UK) »
I'm trying to trace the history of the house I grew up in and it's not helped by the fact that the road it is on has had three different names and the house 3 different numbers.

I did find that in 1911 a William Eric Leigh Jenkinson b 1881 was living there at the then 65 Church Road, Upper Norwood. From other information I have been given but haven't confirmed, I believe he was living there until 1928 so I expected to find him on the 1921 Census. However, from what I can find, neither he, his wife Mabel Winifred Jenkinson b1887 or indeed the house at 65 Church Road is listed in the 1921 census.

However I have found both he and his wife on the electoral registers for 1919 to 1923.

It shows them being in the polling district of Farringdon Without (s) and has them listed under New Bridge Street. However it then has in brackets (abode 65 Church Road, Upper Norwood)

The full line therefore reads:

Polling District of Farringdon Without (S)
New Bridge Street
S3463 BP O Jenkinson, William Eric Leigh 15 (Adobe - 65 Church Road, Upper Norwood)

Why would they be on the electoral roll for Farringdon if they lived in Upper Norwood? Is this a case of them having a second home and Church Road wasn't their primary residence and so they just happened to not be there when the 1921 census was taken? Also does anyone know what the letters BP and O indicate?
Johnson: London & Maidstone
Foster: Essex
Leach: London
Jennings, Camberwell, London
Gray: South London
Dashwood: London
Mason: Maidstone & London
Neville/Stiff: Hampshire & USA

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Re: Electoral Registers Question
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 08 January 22 20:36 GMT (UK) »
Last question first.

https://www.electoralregisters.org.uk/codes

So looks like upper Norwood was a business address
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Re: Electoral Registers Question
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 09 January 22 19:52 GMT (UK) »
The address search can be really picky 'road' or 'rd', 'street' or 'st'. In earlier census if a street starts part way down a page I've seen them ignored completely and the street isn't indexed at all. They are there but it's a trawl image by image to find them, usually in conjunction with a street directory to find the adjacent street names.
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