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London Electoral Rolls

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 15 Aug 2018 17:02

May be it was just tiredness, but I just couldn’t ‘see it’ at all :-0
Anyway, it seems it’s not the person I was looking for as her husband wasn’t shown.

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ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 15 Aug 2018 11:59

Usually the house number is correct , and also the page you're taken to - so usually not too hard to find the person even though the street name is often wrong.

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Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 15 Aug 2018 08:31

Thank you so much. You’ve more patience than I.

Hadn’t heard the prisoner theory before now - the other suggestion was that the scans were computer read.

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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 15 Aug 2018 07:07

Lots of the addresses are way out on the London electoral rolls on Ancestry

I always look at the actual page and do an amendement if the transcription is wrong

Seem to remember reading somewhere the transcribing was given to prisoners in jail and they just didn't want to do it so made lots of errors .deliberate or not who knows!!!

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Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

greyghost

greyghost Report 15 Aug 2018 01:05

Mary E Stubbs appears to be at 49 Willersley Avenue - page 57 of 360. Right hand column of the same page that you're taken to for her, except not Rosebery Ave !!

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 15 Aug 2018 00:56

Ancestry

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 15 Aug 2018 00:05

was this on ancestry or FMP?

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 14 Aug 2018 22:51

Found this transcript, but can't find on the image. Can anyone spot it please & give the (correct) address?

Name: Mary E Stubbs
Year: 1964
County or Borough: Chislehurst
Ward or Division/Constituency: Bexley
Street address: 49 Rosebery Avenue
Reference Number: LCC/PER/B/2896

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