Stockport Absent Voters 1918

[stuart rowles]

I have just found a list of all the surviving Absent Voters Lists which includes Stockport.

Does anyone how I might get access to it.

I am looking for the name ROWLES.

[AndrewSid]

Can you post where you found the list or suggestion of its existence? The access varies from easily found online to buried in country records offices.

Andy 

Edited 3 July , 2022 by AndrewSid

[Matlock1418]

1 hour ago, stuart rowles said:

I have just found a list of all the surviving Absent Voters Lists which includes Stockport.

Does anyone how I might get access to it.

AVL in the Stockport area recently came up in another thread.

I think @Hywyn might perhaps be able to help you / enlighten us all.

I suspect [it seems he got an image off] Find My Past

Good luck.

M

Edited 3 July , 2022 by Matlock1418
corrected member

[Hywyn]

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/298360-george-william-malpas-royal-welsh-fusiliers-no-46268/#comment-3125970

This is the one I quoted the other day which is from the Cheshire County AVL's , Knutsford Division. I had initially viewed them at Cheshire Archives, Chester years ago. It looks like all those at the Archives are now on FMP. However, Stockport Division was not amongst them and may be deposited elsewhere. The one I quoted  is in Hazel Grove and seems to be at the extremity of the Knutsford Div and may very well be regarded as being in Stockport nowadays. I'm not up on the geographics of north Cheshire though.

[Hywyn]

Stockport Heritage Library
Absent Voters Lists for Stockport for 1918-1925 only. Stockport town only, not surrounding area (i.e. not Bredbury, Romiley, etc.).

 

from

https://www.tameside.gov.uk/LocalStudiesandArchives/Absent-Voters-Lists-at-Tameside-Local-Studies-and

 

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

That's a good find Hywyn.

[stuart rowles]

This is the list I found on-line.

[Matlock1418]

2 minutes ago, stuart rowles said:

This is the list I found on-line.

Thanks for posting your AVL source = always interesting to see sources. 

M

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

OK.

But it's incomplete, it doesn't list any of the 10 or so Welsh AVLs that survive.
Here is Chris Baker's compilation on the Long Long Trail, OK, he doesn't list Stockport...
(Don't forget to look at the FMP  list he links to):

http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/how-to-research-a-soldier/finding-soldiers-through-the-1918-absent-voters-lists/

 

Edited 3 July , 2022 by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr

[Matlock1418]

20 minutes ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said:

OK.

But it's incomplete,

Yes, it may be.

The main point of my post above was the emphasis on the identification of the source, and thanking for it [All too often interesting and important posts are made here on GWF and no source attributed]

Just saying ... sources are valuable and I personally would hope more frequently provided here on GWF. 

Just saying ... as it is so often mentioned/criticised? here on GWF that Ancestry family trees and the like don't have sources - I think we need to try and avoid that lack of attribution here.

Just saying ... I was identifying my gratitude and providing my thanks.

M

[BillyH]

This may also be worth a look. It is a free resource  but as I understand it it is being compiled by volunteers and is not yet complete. There are two Rowles listed.

http://databases.cheshirearchives.org.uk/Cosocius.Ww1Archive.Internet/#:~:text=The 1918 and 1919 Absent,battalion and regiment) or ship.

BillyH.

Edited 3 July , 2022 by BillyH

[stuart rowles]

Thanks everyone.

The full list was a delight to get. How very useful they are.

Stuart

[Ray Tomlinson]

Probably going back nearly twenty years, but I remember finding the absent votors list for South Reddish (just NE of Stockport town centre) and that would have been in the Stockport Heritage Library. Has anybody tried asking them?

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

2 hours ago, Ray Tomlinson said:

Has anybody tried asking them?

I don't think so.

As you seem to be familiar with the area, I wonder if you could liaise with Stockport Heritage Library, and establish what coverage they have.

Any AVL is another valuable addition to the knowledge base.

[Ray Tomlinson]

I’ve asked them. Let’s see if we get a reply!

R

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

2 hours ago, Ray Tomlinson said:

I’ve asked them. Let’s see if we get a reply!

R

[Ray Tomlinson]

One month on, just as expected - no reply.