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Roydon : 1873 Electoral Register

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Electoral Registers have been a legal requirement since 1832, listing everyone who was eligible to vote in national and local elections. They record the names of people who registered to vote. However, just as today, not everyone who was eligible to vote registered.
The lists created annually were of people who were eligible to vote and include their reason for eligibility, such as their residence or ownership of a property. Until 1918, the right to vote was closely linked to property ownership. The details in the registers may vary slightly, but in most you will find a combination of the following information; name, address or abode, nature of qualification or a description of property, name and description and residence of landlord or other person to whom rent is paid, and occasionally occupation or age.
They are arranged by electoral division, polling district and then alphabetically, either by street or by voter, and they were published for national elections from 1832 onwards. No registers were compiled at all between 1916-17 and 1940-44. There are separate volumes for each electoral division per year or half year and the period during which each register was effective varied.
The format of each register can vary depending on the constituency or the year of the register, The normal arrangement is in address order; ie: within the register for each polling district, streets are listed in alphabetical order and properties within them are listed in sequence which is not always the same as in numerical order. Remote rural areas are not susceptible to a street arrangement of the registers and in such cases voters are normally listed in alphabetical order of surname within the smallest unit of local administration - parish, community or townland.
Over time electoral divisions changed boundaries. Norfolk was divided into different electoral division arrangements; in 1845 just two areas, East and West; other changes in 1869, 1886, 1918, 1949, and 1971; from 1974 onwards, 7 divisions, North Norfolk, Breckland, Broadland, South Norfolk, Great Yarmouth Borough, King's Lynn West Norfolk Borough and Norwich City.
Further information:

Records found = 36 from 124353
ID	Name	Year	Home Parish	View
	Qualification
40643	ALDRICH Robert	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Freehold land and factory; Shelfanger Road, Roydon
40642	ALDRIDGE Frederick	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Freehold cottages; by the Parsonage Green, Roydon
40644	BISHOP Charles	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Freehold cottages and land; near The Fen, Roydon
40645	BROOK Calver John	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house; Brewhouse Green, Roydon
40646	BURNELL Edward	1873	Chappel, Essex	-
	Freehold house and land; Snow Street, Roydon, to vote at Norwich
40665	BURROWS Frederick	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; mill, house and land; Shelfanger Road, Roydon
40666	CARTER Samuel	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; house and garden; Banyards Green, Roydon
40647	CASTON Hugh Charles	1873	Bloomsbury, London	-
	Freehold cottages and land; on The Fen, Roydon
40667	CLARKE George Adams	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; house and land, Old Parsonage, Roydon
40668	CLARKE James	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; house and land, near Roydon Green, Roydon
40669	CRICK Arthur	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; house and land, Brewers Green, Roydon
40648	DAY John Barham	1873	Salisbury, Wiltshire	-
	Moiety of freehold cottages and gardens; Brewers Green, Roydon
40649	DAY William	1873	Woodyeates, Dorsetshire	-
	Moiety of freehold cottages and gardens; Brewers Green, Roydon
40650	FRERE George Edward	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house and lands; Brewhouse Green, Roydon
40651	GIRLING Richard	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Blue Pump Farm, Roydon
40652	GOODRICH William	1873	Palgrave, Suffolk	-
	Freehold land; near Wortham Ling, Roydon
40670	GOODRICH William	1873	Wortham, Suffolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; land, by Worthing Ling, Roydon
40671	HART Henry	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; barn and land, Darrow Lane, Roydon
40672	HERN Benjamin	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; barn and land, Tothington, Roydon
40653	HOSE Thomas Charles	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house and land; The Rectory, Roydon
40654	KEMP Richard	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Darrow Farm, Roydon
40655	LEEDER James	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house and land; near The Fen, Roydon
40656	MUSKETT Charles	1873	Bressingham, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house; Brewhouse Green, Roydon
40673	ORFORD Thomas	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; house and land, Parsonage Green, Roydon
40657	POACHER John	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house; Bressingham Road, Roydon
40674	REEVE Absalom	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; house and land, White Hart Inn, by the Church, Roydon
40675	RIX William	1873	Palgrave, Suffolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; land, by the Potash, Roydon
40658	SAUNDERS William	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Black Boards Farm, Roydon
40659	SCOTT Henry	1873	Bromley, Middlesex	-
	Freehold cottages and gardens, Brewers Green, Roydon
40676	TAYLOR Thomas Lombe	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; land, Diss Road, Roydon
40660	TROUGHTON George	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	House and land as occupier; Roydon Grove Farm, Roydon
40661	TUCK John Johnson	1873	Earlham, Norwich, Norfolk	-
	Freehold and copyhold land, near Wortham Ling, Roydon
40662	WEBSDALE Robert	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Snow Street, Roydon
40664	WOODROW Samuel	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	Copyhold house and land; Bressingham Road, Roydon
40677	WOODROW Samuel	1873	Roydon, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; house and land, Bressingham Road, Roydon
40663	WOODS Searles Valentine	1873	South Weald, Essex	-
	Freehold land; Shelfanger Road, Roydon
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