About Electoral Registers for Ireland 1832-38

In Ireland during this period the electorate consisted of £10 freeholders and leaseholders (ie those owning or leasing property with an annual value of at least £10), £20 leaseholders and freeholders, £50 freeholders, plus, in towns, cities and boroughs, freemen or paid-up members of a trade guild.

The usefulness of these lists of the electorate, especially for the towns and cities in Ireland, cannot be over-emphasised. Only a handful of postal and/or street directories exists for that period for the majority of the towns and villages of Ireland, other than Dublin and Belfast, so the list of voters provided by the Select Committee greatly adds to the available material on urban residents.

The electoral lists provide the names of all those eligible to vote in rural districts of the 32 counties of Ireland, and the names, addresses and voting qualifications for those residing in the borough towns of Ireland which returned Members of Parliament, such as Sligo, Clonmel, Cashel, Dungannon, Lisburn, Enniskillen.

The most voluminous portions of the lists detail the electorate of the City of Dublin. These lists provide, street-by-street, the names, addresses and voting qualifications of Dublin's electorate. This is perhaps the most comprehensive and useful list of Dublin's residents prior to the first complete surviving Population Census for the City (1901).

The lists provide the names of all persons eligible to vote by dint of their membership of one of the trades guilds or as a freeman of the City. The Dublin list, in essence, names all the various guild members and freemen residing in the city in 1832 and in the case of the trades guilds (which include doctors, merchants and smiths, etc.) the name of the father or name of the master craftsman of each is also provided.

Also included is a list of individuals brought to the attention of the Select Committee as fictitious voters, with the evidence brought against them, together with a summary of the Select Committee's findings - which in some cases resulted in individuals being struck from the Electoral Register. In other cases those gathering evidence for the committee applauded landlords and land owners for increasing the electorate amongst the tenantry of their property.

Source	Year
'Waste and Poor' Cork city	1838
£10 Householders in Cork city	1837
£10 Householders in Cork city not registered	1838
£10 Householders in Cork city struck out	1838
Aldermen, Burgess & Freemen since 1831	1837
Applications for Excise Licences	1838
Applications to be Registered	1837
Assistant and Deputy Assistant Barristers since 1833	1837
Borough of Armagh elections	1837
Borough of Carlow elections	1837
Borough of Cashel elections	1837
Borough of Clonmel elections	1837
Borough of Coleraine elections	1837
Borough of Downpatrick elections	1837
Borough of Ennis elections	1837
Borough of Portarlington elections	1837
Borough of Sligo elections	1837
Borough of Tralee elections	1837
Borough of Wexford elections	1837
City of Waterford elections	1837
Cork city elections	1837
County Cork elections	1837
County Kerry elections	1837
County Louth elections	1837
County of Clare elections	1837
County Roscommon elections	1837
County Sligo elections	1837
County Tipperary elections	1837
Excise Licences since 1832	1838
Freemen admitted since 1831	1837
Freemen admitted since 1831	1838
Freemen of the guilds or corporations of Dublin city	1837
Freemen registered in Dublin city since 1832	1832
Freemen registered in Dublin city since 1832	1837
Houses & occupiers in Clonmel	1837
Houses & occupiers in Drogheda	1837
Houses & occupiers in Dundalk	1837
Houses which return Members to serve in Parliament	1837
List of £50 freeholders in Dublin city	1837
List of Freeholders for Co. Fermanagh	1832
Londonderry city elections	1837
Names of persons etc. in 1828	1837
New list of £10 Householders Cork city	1838
New valuations of voters with unvalued property or unregistered 1832-37	1838
Non-resident freemen in Cork city in 1837	1838
Persons applyinf for or receiving excise licences for the sale of spirits since 1832	1838
Persons applyinf for or receiving excise licences for the sale of spirits since 1837	1838
Persons Registered as householders in Cork city 1830-37	1838
Persons registered as marksmen	1837
Persons registered as marksmen	1838
Queen's County elections	1837
Register of Marksmen	1837
Registered voters in unvalued property Cork city 1832-37	1838
Rentcharges registered since 1832	1837
Rentcharges registered since 1832	1838
Return of Voters for Cork city	1838
Returned "Poor" by Churchwardens or Grand Jury	1838
Town of Carrickfergus elections	1837
Town of Galway elections	1837
Voters & Excise Licences	1837
Voters and Excise licences	1837
Voters for Dublin city registered in 1832	1837
Voters for Dublin city registered in 1833	1833
Voters for Dublin city registered in 1834	1834
Voters for Dublin city registered in 1835	1835
Voters for Dublin city registered in 1836	1836
Voters in Cork city exempt from rates 1832-37	1838
Voters registered since 1832	1837

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