Electoral List descriptions query

[taramcdsmall]

I'm confused again ~

It says that if you were a lodger you could vote once you'd met the age requirement.

But, that still rules out wives of those responsible for the rent ~

also sons and daughters whom had met the age requirements yet still lived with their parents.

Plus it excludes men and women whose yearly rent was less than £4.

UGH I must be reading this wrong.

Tara

[hallmark]

 if you were a lodger you could vote once you'd met the age requirement.... and didn't have a vote elsewhere, if one owned a house in Cavan, and didn't live there he couldn't get a vote there! non inhabitant!

[taramcdsmall]

Hallmark

My point is re the average man ~

For example I have a family member whom met the age requirement AND the inhabitant householder requirement ie paying £4 rent~

So he IS on the voter list !

His wife, whom met the age requirement is NOT on the list

His children, some of whom still lived with him and met the age requirement are NOT on the list.

It's just interesting to see the criteria to be able to vote or not, as the case may be !

Tara

[hallmark]

...nothing about dependents of voting age!!   grrrr...

[taramcdsmall]

I'm amazed at how many people then didn't qualify to vote based moreso on WHOM they were living with or on the amount of rent that they were paying.

It doesn't make sense to me that a lodger could vote but not someone whom was responsible for paying the rent themselves, no matter how little.

Oh Politics 

Tara

[hallmark]

Looking forward to synopsis  heheheee....

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1898/en/act/pub/0037/print.html

[taramcdsmall]

UGH

Scratch my example ~

My example was for an ancestor whom RENTED

BUT the 'inhabitant freeholder' had to OWN the property

SO WHY and or HOW did my ancestor fit the criteria 

Back to square one 

Tara

[taramcdsmall]

If you rented a couple of rooms in a house were you classed as a LEASEHOLDER ?

Tara

[hallmark]

An inhabitant householder was a person who owned and lived in a residential house with a rateable valuation of £4 yearly.

Rateable valuation was a calculation of the amount of rental which could be obtained annually on any premises.

Rated Occupiers and Inhabitant Householders were entitled to vote in local elections and in parliamentary elections.

A person who had a separate business premises and a separate residential house in different electoral areas was entitled to two votes in local elections.

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So one of yours was Rated Occupier!!  Lived in house with qualifying Rates!
Maybe the owner did too....