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Burston : 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 = 32 from 124504
ID	Name	Year	Home Parish	View
	Qualification
3217	ABON Frederick	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; near the road to Scole, Burston
3219	BALLS James	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold cottages and land; Back Lane, Burston
3218	BALLS James Robert	1873	Hopton, Suffolk	-
	Copyhold house and land; Audley End, Burston; occupied by Bryant and Hall; to vote at Harleston
3220	BOULTON William	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold Cottage; near the Church, Burston
3221	CADGE John	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Burston Hall, Burston
3222	CARTER Willioam	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; near Crown Green, Burston
3223	COLCHESTER Jophn	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Burston and Diss, Heywood and Tibenham
3224	COOPER William	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold rent-charge issuing out of freehold house, mill and land; on Mill Green, Burston; Richard Symonds
3225	DIXON Zachariah	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Hospital Farm, Burston
3246	EVERETT Robert	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; land and buildings; near Gissing Road, Burston
3226	FISHER Joseph	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Mill Green, Burston
3227	FRERE Henry Temple	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold glebe and rent-charge; Rectory and rent-charges over lands of R. Scales and others
3228	GILL Frederick Gurner	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house and land; near road to Scole; Burston
3229	GOODERHAM William	1873	Rickinghall Superior, Suffolk	-
	Freehold Land; Thelton Fields; Burston
3247	HERN Edward	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; land and buildings; near the Church, Burston
3230	HERN John	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Market Lane, Burston
3231	KERRY Joseph	1873	Wickhampton, Norfolk	-
	Freehold land; Horns Lane, Burston
3232	KING Charles William	1873	Thorpe St. Andrew, Norfolk	-
	Freehold cottage; near the railway, Burston; to vote at Norwich
3233	LING Jabez	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house and land; near the Church, Burston
3234	MARTIN Richard	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house and land; occupied by himself
3248	PRENTICE Richard	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£12 rated occupier; land and buildings; near road to Scole, Burston
3235	SANDY John	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house and land; on the road to Scole, Burston
3236	SAUNDERS Richard	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold cottage; occupied by Simpson
3237	SCALES Robert	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house and land; occupied by himself
3239	SELF James	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Burston, Diss Heywood
3238	SELF John	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	£50 occupier; Bridge Green, Burston
3241	SIMONDS Richard	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house, mill and land; Mill Green, Burston
3240	SMITH Alfred Fowler	1873	Thetford, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house and land; near the railway, Burston; to vote at Thetford
3242	TACON Joseph	1873	Ubberstone, Suffolk	-
	Freehold land; Mill Green, Burston
3243	WELTON Robert	1873	Burston, Norfolk	-
	Freehold house and land; Culfer Farm, Burston
3244	WOOD Edward Negua	1873	Woodbridge, Suffolk	-
	Moiety of freehold land; near road to Scole, Burston
3245	WOOD John	1873	Melton, Suffolk	-
	Moiety of freehold land; near road to Scole, Burston
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