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Title: Voter's List
Post by: shearg on Wednesday 22 February 17 16:24 GMT (UK)

I'm trying to find a Great Aunt's, Eva Beatrice MILSON, address in 1945 in Goxhill and wondered if she would be on this Voter's list. Any help appreciated. On the 1911 census they were living in Hull so that census doesn't help me and I'm not sure how else to find her. She died in 1947.

shearg

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: rosie99 on Wednesday 22 February 17 16:36 GMT (UK)

Electoral registers that are not online are only searchable by address. 

The free index for the 1939 register has her in Holderness R.D. - Yorkshire (East Riding)

The death certificate would give an address for her in 1947

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: KGarrad on Wednesday 22 February 17 16:36 GMT (UK)

What address is given on the Death Certificate?

Also, I think the first Electoral Register after WW2 was 1946?

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: shearg on Wednesday 22 February 17 16:41 GMT (UK)

Her death certificate gave "North End, Goxhill" as her address but no house number or name. She died at Brigg. Would the 1946 list give the actual house number or is North End the closest address I can get?

shearg

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: rosie99 on Wednesday 22 February 17 16:59 GMT (UK)

Funeral notice only gives address as Goxhill - funeral at Goxhill Church - widow of John

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: Itterbysearch on Wednesday 22 February 17 19:08 GMT (UK)

North End, Goxhill, will be the closest you will get.    I was born in North End, Goxhill, and I do not have a closer address.

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: shearg on Wednesday 22 February 17 22:47 GMT (UK)

Thanks for all your help. Is there any thing else I could check to see if I could find a house number. I was told she sold candy out of her house so is there anything to do with a business license?

shearg

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: Geoff-E on Thursday 23 February 17 08:19 GMT (UK)

Looking at the 1939 register, they were not numbered but - apart from farms and "named" houses - simply labelled "North End".

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: rosie99 on Thursday 23 February 17 08:23 GMT (UK)

I would doubt she needed a licence for selling candy from home.  She was possibly just making sweets and selling them to the local children.  She would have been 70 in 1945.

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: Redroger on Thursday 23 February 17 10:46 GMT (UK)

Someone (possibly me) is confused here. Remember that there is a Goxhill in historic Lincolnshire, near Grimsby, and there is also a settlement of the same name in East Yorkshire.

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: Geoff-E on Thursday 23 February 17 11:45 GMT (UK)

Quote from: Redroger on Thursday 23 February 17 10:46 GMT (UK)

Someone (possibly me) is confused here. Remember that there is a Goxhill in historic Lincolnshire, near Grimsby, and there is also a settlement of the same name in East Yorkshire.

While this is true, the one in Yorks is little more than a hamlet and doesn't have an area of North End.

Here is a map of the Lincs Goxhill http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=510605&Y=421610&A=Y&Z=120

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: Redroger on Thursday 23 February 17 11:57 GMT (UK)

Thanks for clarification Geoff.

Title: Re: Voter's List
Post by: shearg on Thursday 23 February 17 17:21 GMT (UK)

Thanks again everyone for all your help.

shearg