Manchester Rate Books
From 1800 to 2000, the 433,105 records added bring the total to almost five million names of tax payers in the boroughs which now make up Greater Manchester.
These records usually record the following detail:
• Name of Occupier (head of household)
• Name of Owner
• Description of the property (house or business)
• Street Address/Township/Parish
• Rate to be paid (e.g. poor rate, water rate)
• Amount to paid
• Date paid or any default on payment
Every fifth year’s rate books are indexed to coincide with census years for parts of the following boroughs:
• Bolton 1916-1936
• Manchester 1706-1941
• Oldham 1841-1936
• Rochdale 1826-1921
• Stockport 1886-1921
• Tameside 1846-1936
• Trafford 1836-1931
• Wigan 1806-1936
Manchester Faces and Places
Sub-titled”an illustrated record of the social, political, and commercial life of the cotton metropolis and its environs,” the years covered are 1889-1906. Find 5,455 entries.
Greater Manchester Electoral Registers 1820-1940
Each record of the 172,404 added provides a transcription and an original image. Most of the transcriptions will include the following:
Name
Address
Location
Township
Ward
Type of record
Archive and reference
Repository
The original images could contain even more information such as, ‘nature of qualification or nature of the property rated.’ Until 1918, the right to vote was closely linked to property ownership. This detail on the registers is used to clarify whether the person owned a property or paid rent above a specific rate, making them eligible for voting.
Newspapers
New Titles
| Title | Pages Added | Date Range |
| The Tricyclist | 1,218 pages | 1884 |
| Rhyl Record & Advertiser | 6,472 pages | 1855-1869, 1874-1877 |
| Jackson’s Woolwich Journal and Army and Navy Gazette | 1,552 pages | 1877-1878, 1881-1882, 1885-1887, 1890 |
| Hednesford Advertiser | 3,024 pages | 1884-1896, 1899 |
| County Herald | 7,890 pages | 1818-1843, 1858-1860, 1862-1864 |
| Accrington Advertiser | 3,574 pages | 1889-1896, 1898-1902 |
Publications with Over 10,000 Pages Added
| Title | Pages Added | Date Range |
| Trinidad Royal Gazette | 26,206 pages | 1905-1914 |
| Leatherhead Advertiser | 26,372 pages | 2000-2001, 2003, 2005 |
| Irvine Herald | 19,890 pages | 2001-2002, 2005 |
| Horley & Gatwick Mirror | 39,972 pages | 2000-2005 |
| Gloucester Citizen | 23,190 pages | 2005 |
| Chester Chronicle (Frodsham & Helsby edition) | 40,024 pages | 2000-2004 |
| Birmingham Daily Post | 48,350 pages | 2000, 2003-2004 |
| Billericay Gazette | 39,480 pages | 2001-2005 |