In Britain the 1918 act gave the vote to men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30, and the 1928 act extended the vote to women over the age of 21. Before 1918 only men who owned property above a certain value could vote. Jill Whitehead -----Original Message----- From: british-jewry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:british-jewry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of british-jewry-request@rootsweb.com Sent: 18 March 2008 07:02 To: british-jewry@rootsweb.com Subject: BRITISH-JEWRY Digest, Vol 3, Issue 137 If you wish to change the format of this digest please email british-jewry-admin@rootsweb.com (put digest format in the subject line) When you reply please remember to make the subject line appropriate and to snip everything but the original message body-thanks! Today's Topics: 1. How can excellence be exceeded? (Merv & Naomi Barnett) 2. Hyman and Rachel (nee Leibowitz) BERKOVITCH (Alan Booth) 3. Re: Hyman and Rachel (nee Leibowitz) BERKOVITCH (Sherry with Sky) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:14:58 +1100 From: Merv & Naomi Barnett <barnett@netspace.net.au> Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] How can excellence be exceeded? To: British Jewry <british-jewry@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <47DE44A2.3080707@netspace.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Every time the magazine comes out I give myself some time out to enjoy the offerings made available for our edification. The editorial staff have again done an excellent job - thank you so very much. It's very much appreciated (even in the Colonies). Naomi Barnett Melbourne, Australia ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:03:12 -0000 From: "Alan Booth" <alanbooth@tiscali.co.uk> Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Hyman and Rachel (nee Leibowitz) BERKOVITCH To: <BRITISH-JEWRY@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <200803171614.m2HGEIhk012923@mail.rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello BJs, Rather come to a stand still for the moment on enquiries into the lives of the above but have had some good successes so far. Could I ask when a Jewish immigrant to London in the 1900-1903 period would gain British voting rights? Was it on becoming employed, owning property or naturalization ? The answer may help me to use electoral roll records for further research. Otherwise anyone spotting Joseph Leibowitz, cobbler of Whitechapel in the 1901 and his Romanian family including Rachel Leibowitz, daughter, born 1882 - please let me know. Thanks to Duncan for sterling efforts already on this one, but looking like another case of erratic spelling of surnames by enumerators that is hiding this. Thank you regards Alan Booth ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:41:36 +0000 From: "Sherry with Sky" <SherryELanda@sky.com> Subject: Re: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Hyman and Rachel (nee Leibowitz) BERKOVITCH To: british-jewry@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <b4b3bd630803171141y19baeaf4p567f8d4df5c89c8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Could I ask when a Jewish immigrant to London in the 1900-1903 period would > gain British voting rights? > Was it on becoming employed, owning property or naturalization ? You have to be a British national to vote, so if you are not, you have to naturalise. you have to be resident in UK for a few years prior to naturalisation (I THINK it's five but am not entirely certain on that). It cost a fair bit, so a lot of people didn't bother. Have a look at the National Archives site (I am pasting a link which is long and will split in email http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/searchresults.asp?SearchInit=0& txtsearchterm=BERKOVITCH&txtfirstdate=&txtlastdate=&txtrestriction=HO&hdnsor ttype=Reference&image1.x=49&image1.y=10 ) Best Sherry ------------------------------ To contact the BRITISH-JEWRY list administrator, send an email to BRITISH-JEWRY-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the BRITISH-JEWRY mailing list, send an email to BRITISH-JEWRY@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRITISH-JEWRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of BRITISH-JEWRY Digest, Vol 3, Issue 137 *********************************************