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Surname: SMITH

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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.
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Records found = 20 from 128125
ID	Name	Year	Home Parish	View
	Qualification
14970	SMITH Arthur Harbord	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Ownership Electors - Parliamentary and Parochial Electors : Living in: Church Street, Diss; Qualification: Freehold house and land; Place: Church Street
15832	SMITH Arthur Harbord	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division Three : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Church Street
13369	SMITH Edmund	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Living in Diss, Norfolk; qualification: Freehold and copyhold land; place: Heywood
15833	SMITH Frances	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division Three : Living in: Diss; Qualification: House; Place: The Entry
15517	SMITH Fred Charles	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Walcot Green
15518	SMITH George	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Park Fields Entry
15519	SMITH George Henry	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Church Street
14971	SMITH George King	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Ownership Electors - Parliamentary and Parochial Electors : Living in: 39, Fonnereau Road, Ipswich; Qualification: Share of freehold tenement; Place: Church Street
15834	SMITH Hannah	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division Three : Living in: Diss; Qualification: House; Place: Shelfanger Road
15520	SMITH Harry	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Mission Road
15521	SMITH Harry	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house (successive); Place: Walcot Green and Burston Road
15522	SMITH Harry	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Frenze Lane
15524	SMITH Harry (jun.)	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Land and tenement (joint); Place: Walcot Green
15523	SMITH Harry (sen.)	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Land and tenement (joint); Place: Walcot Green
15525	SMITH Jesse	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: 2, Stanley Terrace
15891	SMITH John	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Lodgers List : Living in: Bedroom, first floor, furnished; In: St. Nicholas Street; Owner: Abel Hart, St. Nicholas Street
15526	SMITH Joseph	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Walcot Green
15527	SMITH Thomas	1912	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Occupational Voters (other than lodgers) - Division One : Living in: Diss; Qualification: Dwelling house; Place: Denmark Street
13370	SMITH Thomas William	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Living in Diss, Norfolk; qualification: Freehold and copyhold land; place: Heywood
13443	SMITH William	1873	Diss, Norfolk	-
	Living in Diss, Norfolk; qualification: £12 rated occupier, House and Land; place: Church Street
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