MyHeritage adds England, Kent Electoral Registers, 1570-1907

New to MyHeritage are 4,678,564 records for Kent up to 1907. As voting rights were extended with the Reform Acts of 1867 and 1884, the collection is predominantly for the latter period.

These are transcripts giving name, record type, year and residence. There are no images.

The record type is either voter registration, burgess rolls or jury lists. Residence can be the parish or sometimes just the county (Kent).

Although for the period before receiving the vote on a par with men, under some conditions, women could vote and are found in Burgess Rolls, including nearly 2,500 Marys in this collection.

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