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From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] re Register of Electors.
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 11:23:50 +0000
In-Reply-To: <IFEMIJBPKBIEOGLCNKOBKEHFDAAA.Paul.Braisby@btinternet.com>


In message <>,
writes
>Merryl
>
>The electoral roll listed in the Church porch would be that for the
>(Anglican) Parochial Church Council - not the (civil) Parish Council. It's
>essentially the regular worshippers at the church: the people who have
>registered themselves as baptised and either resident in the parish or
>worshipping regularly in the parish. It entitles people to stand and vote
>for the council which with its priest runs that church. The rolls are being
>renewed now in preparation for the church annual meetings, usually in April.
>
But I recall that the electoral roll for the village in Surrey where my
parents lived in retirement used to publish the electoral roll on a
noticeboard outside the Post Office in the 1970s. My brother used to
have an (M) after his name to show he was in the Merchant Navy and so
could not be called for Jury Service. As a professional navigator, he
never understood why a cousin of ours in the Royal Navy used to take
offence when he congratulated him on joining the 'Grey Funnel Line'.
--
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

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