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Huddersfield Absent Voters List

The Huddersfield A.V.L was indexed by J.R. Ellam.
The database contains 14,000 Names.

What Are Absent Voters List.
An Act of Parliament of 6 February 1918 allowed service men to register so that they could vote in their home constituency. Men had to apply to be put on the absent voters list.
A deadline of 18 August 1918 was set and a list compiled from applications up to this date was published on 15 October 1918. A second opportunity to register was offered and a deadline was set at 18 February 1919.
The list resulting from applications received during this second wave was published on 15 April 1919. The absent voters lists were prepared by the local Electoral Register and they were published twice a year, as were the general electoral registers. This pattern continued for a little while after the end of the First World War.
The Absent Voters Lists were published as separate volumes to the main electoral registers, held at Huddersfield Local History Library.
The Absent Voters Lists are of great interest to military historians and genealogists because they include more information that is usually recorded in the general electoral registers. In addition to the name and home address of an individual, they often include regiment or corps, regimental number, rank, battalion, battery (for artillery units), company or other unit number (for other corps units).

Kirklees War Graves

Researched by J.R. Ellam.

This is a list of WW1 & WW2 Graves in Kirklees Church Yards & Cemetery's,

Kirklees Roll of Honour

This is a list of Soldiers who died from the Kirklees area during World War One; all the Names are from the War Memorials in the Kirklees area.
This is an ongoing Project.
Links:

Roll of Honour
War Memorial Trust
Kirklees War Memorials

Institutions:

This database holds records for Workhouses, Poor Houses, Asylums, and Prisons from the whole of Yorkshire. It also contains Carlisle Gaol.

Parish Records

BAPTISMS

Upper Heaton St John's the Evangelist 1846 to 1859

MARRIAGES

BURIALS

Kirkheaton Laneside Cemetery 1890 to 1908
Roberttown All Saints 1845 to 1951
Battyeford (Mirfield) Christ Church/Kings Christ 1840 to 1950
Hartshead St Peter's 1813 to 1823
Huddersfield Holy Trinity 1819 to 1947

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