Electoral roll

[crystal blue]

Just wondered what this meant:-

Anderson Peter Owairoa Coromandel attested by Alexander McGrigor

This is on th 1862 electoral roll - what do they mean by attested?

[Thamesite2017]

??enrolled..thinking of army application of word.
Maybe he had to vouch he was citizen??
Bye
Althea

[crystal blue]

If it was to vouch that someone was a citizen, Alexander McGrigor must have been of good standing within the community to be a position to do that! 

[Thamesite2017]

they are all the same in DSC
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=DSC18620415.2.19.4&srpos=1&e=-------10-DSC-1----2Alexander+McGrigor--
Bye
Althea

[Thamesite2017]

I meant to say
when I read the name for Coromandel, i thought it would be Alexander McGregor,owned sawmill Kennedy Bay etc..and well known in area.
Bye
Althea

lots of previous mentions on this board
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=qh6bo7lss4a0kebnuqg04d1160&action=printpage;topic=387228.0

[crystal blue]

Thanks Althea - I am still plodding away with the research on the McGregors!

[Thamesite2017]

LOL 
I didn't click to that when I posted those threads!!!
It would seem from all those other listings in the paper that the person to go on the roll needed to be enrolled by someone..like a warden
Looking a tthe list there are several men who's name is repeated, so they must have had the authority to do the enrolment

Bye
Althea