A: Electorally Clyde was split across into two parts- North of Ballarto Road and South of Ballarto Road.
So if you are checking Electoral Rolls via Ancestry.com (or other sources) you first need to know where your ancestors actually lived.
If their home was south of Ballarto Road then you will have lots of difficulty in finding their name as the electoral boundaries changed often and had different names.
Not all Clyde people were enrolled for the same Polling Station/Electoral Subdivision. |  |
Properties that would eventually become Clyde are listed under Cranbourne.
Electoral District - Evelyn and Mornington, Subdistrict- Mornington C: Years and Names of Electoral Subdivisions.
1903 –1977 All Clyde listings are in the Division of Flinders
Electoral Subdivision
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Electoral Subdivision
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Year
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North of Ballarto Road
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South of Ballarto Road
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1903
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information unavailable
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Tooradin / Langwarrin
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1905-06
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Cranbourne Polling Place
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Tooradin Polling Place
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1909-27
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Dandenong
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Lang Lang
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1928-43
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Berwick
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Frankston
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1954
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Cranbourne
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Frankston
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1963-77
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South Eastern
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Hastings
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D: From 1963-1977 Clyde Voters were separated
into different electoral districts.
1977-1980
If Clyde
people lived SOUTH of Ballarto Road
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District
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Holt
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Subdivision
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Cranbourne South
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1949-1977
If Clyde
people lived NORTH of Ballarto Road
1963
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1968
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1972
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1977
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1977
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District
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Bruce
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Holt
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Holt
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Holt
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South Eastern
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Sub-division
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Berwick
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Berwick
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Berwick
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Cranbourne
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Cranbourne
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1980 -
1. Voters NORTH of
Subdivision of Cranbourne.
1980 Electoral Roll
2. Voters SOUTH of Ballarto Road were in the District of Holt,
Subdivision of Cranbourne South
Subdivision of Cranbourne South
E: To unravel the confusion it is good to know:-
a) About streets and roads
Streets and roads are listed below as they are today. Prior to early 1960’s/late 1950’s property owners did not always use street names as being their residential addresses. As the postman didn’t deliver mail to homes Clyde people would go to the Clyde Post Office to collect their mail. Besides almost every adult in the town knew where everyone else lived. Some property owners added a property name to their address eg St Germains, Pine Grove, Hiltonwood. Simply put, there was no practical need to record one’s self by using a street name.
b) Some Clyde people registered themselves as living in Cranbourne, Berwick or Tooradin. Examples of this include the Lineham family who lived on the corner of Patterson and Fisheries Road- definitely in Clyde to all of us who knew them. We understood why they registered themselves that way.
Many of us would have the postal address as c/- Clyde Post Office, via Cranbourne. When asked ”Clyde? Where is Clyde?” we often answered “Near Cranbourne” as most other people didn't know about Clyde but had heard of Cranbourne.
c) On which side of Ballarto Road lived your relatives - north or south? Ballarto Road is the dividing line between the electoral boundaries.
Streets/Roads north of Ballarto Road
Bells Road (Mel 135 H, 9)
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Pound Road (Mel 131 J,12)
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Grices Road (Mel 131 B,7)
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Railway Road (Mel 134 J,10)
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Hardys Road (Mel 135 A,3)
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Soldiers Road (Mel 131 J,12)
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McCormicks Road (Mel Key Map 14 P,15)
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Thompsons Road (Mel 131 A,11)
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Muddy Gates Lane (Mel Key Map 14 P,15)
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Tuckers Road (Mel 135 C,12)
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Oroya Grove (Mel 134 K,11)
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Twyfords Road (Mel 134 K,9)
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Pattersons Road (Mel 134 K,7)
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Valetta Street (Mel 134 K,11)
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Streets/Roads South of Ballarto Road
Bakers
Road (Mel 136 K,2)
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Manks
Road (Mel 138 H,7)
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Beechers
Road (Mel 134 J,1)
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Moores
Road (Mel 138 H,3)
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Campbells
Road (Mel 138 K, 1)
Clyde-Five Ways Road (Fisheries Road) (Mel 134 J, 1) |
Muddy
Gates Lane
(also north of Ballarto Road) (Mel 139 K,9) Ridgway Road (Mel 134 K,12) |
Derricks
Road (Mel 139 B,1)
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Tooradin
Station Road (Key Map 14 P, 16)
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Fisheries
Road (Clyde -Five Ways Road) (Mel 134 J,1)
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Yallambee
Road (Mel 135 A,12)
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Graham
Road (Mel 139 J,1)
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(Mel = Melways Street Directory)
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