Hi Just thought I'd add my wee bit to this. I know you are in Australia, so you would have to find someone willing to go to Edinburgh or get someone in Edinburgh to do the lookup for you, but checking the voters roll might help. It is a tricky thing to search for names, but easy for an address. Unfortunately your Mary McNab will only be on the roll if she was over 30 and was still at the same address in 1918 (there were no rolls recorded in the war years - and women only got the right to vote in 1918 if they were over 30). You could check the address pre war as well as there may well have been a husband or father at the address and this could help. The voters rolls are in the Edinburgh room of the central library. _http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Historysphere/EdRoomGuid e/edrmdocs.html#voters_ (http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Historysphere/EdRoomGuide/edrmdocs.html#voters) Gillian White
Thank you Gillian for this information. Oh to be in a position to visit Scotland!!!! I would need to spend quite a bit of time doing all I would like to do. And then of course it would be a trip to Gloucester to research my mothers family. What a trip that would be. Regard Elaine GillyWhite@aol.com wrote: >Hi > >Just thought I'd add my wee bit to this. I know you are in Australia, so you >would have to find someone willing to go to Edinburgh or get someone in >Edinburgh to do the lookup for you, but checking the voters roll might help. It >is a tricky thing to search for names, but easy for an address. Unfortunately >your Mary McNab will only be on the roll if she was over 30 and was still at >the same address in 1918 (there were no rolls recorded in the war years - and >women only got the right to vote in 1918 if they were over 30). You could >check the address pre war as well as there may well have been a husband or >father at the address and this could help. > >The voters rolls are in the Edinburgh room of the central library. > >_http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Historysphere/EdRoomGuid >e/edrmdocs.html#voters_ >(http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Historysphere/EdRoomGuide/edrmdocs.html#voters) > > >Gillian White > > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.0 - Release Date: 31/03/2005