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Title: Rochdale electoral roll lookup please 1978
Post by: Jo Blake on Monday 02 September 24 16:22 BST (UK)
Hi, would someone mind looking up the electoral roll for 1978 and/or a year either side I am looking for the forenames of the Hayes family who lived on Mizzy Road Rochdale possibly number 4.
Many thanks in anticipation
Title: Re: Rochdale electoral roll lookup please 1978
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 02 September 24 16:31 BST (UK)
What you want is the Burgess Rolls?
Held by Rochdale Local Studies and Archive
Title: Re: Rochdale electoral roll lookup please 1978
Post by: Jo Blake on Monday 02 September 24 16:32 BST (UK)
Oh Ive not heard of them can you explain to me what they are please?
Title: Re: Rochdale electoral roll lookup please 1978
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 02 September 24 16:37 BST (UK)
Historical Burgess Rolls/Electoral registers:
Pre 1974 registers for Rochdale can be viewed at Rochdale Local Studies, for Heywood at Heywood Library and for Middleton at Middleton Library.

Burgess rolls – lists of people entitled to vote in local government elections. Burgess means someone who is an inhabitant of a town or borough and has full rights of citizenship.

May be available on FindMyPast.
Title: Re: Rochdale electoral roll lookup please 1978
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 02 September 24 20:00 BST (UK)
Are any of the residents likely to still be alive?  Rootschat has a strict no living persons policy.  If any were only in their early/late 20's at that time they would only have been born in the late 1940's or early 1950's so could not be named here.

Problem with the ER's - they don't show ages