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If you have a mortgage on your home, your mortgage company's solicitors may have sent you the deed bundle and this should have the history of ownership and any plans, boundary maps etc included. In recent years these deed bundles have been sent to the mortgagee as the building societies/banks etc have no storage facility. i would make enquiries about the bundle relating to your property.
Other sources you could look at in your local library, depending on the age of your house, would be the electroal rolls, (printed versions are kept divided into wards and so u need to know your ward)
Town directories, these were pulished at local, county and national level and give the name and address of householders, these were published by local town newspapers, and at county and national level by Slaters, Pigots and Kellys.
You could also look at the Census 1911,1901,then back every ten years until 1841, before then the 31,21,11 and o1 census is extant in some counties but the information is less informative and based on the head of house.
The Land Tax assessments 1980s to 1830ish will show who owned and who tenanted a property.
The Tithe maps of the mid 1800s would show a similar thing, the owners and tenants and the usage and size of land and property.
As I say it depends how early your house was used as a dwelling
all the above should be available in your local studies library.
Other sources you could look at in your local library, depending on the age of your house, would be the electroal rolls, (printed versions are kept divided into wards and so u need to know your ward)
Town directories, these were pulished at local, county and national level and give the name and address of householders, these were published by local town newspapers, and at county and national level by Slaters, Pigots and Kellys.
You could also look at the Census 1911,1901,then back every ten years until 1841, before then the 31,21,11 and o1 census is extant in some counties but the information is less informative and based on the head of house.
The Land Tax assessments 1980s to 1830ish will show who owned and who tenanted a property.
The Tithe maps of the mid 1800s would show a similar thing, the owners and tenants and the usage and size of land and property.
As I say it depends how early your house was used as a dwelling
all the above should be available in your local studies library.
Not an answer to your question but just a comment on the demise of the bundles of deeds. I used to work in a bank and at one time my job was to perfect legal mortgages over properties. In the early days this would involve trying to trace through the title deeds to ensure the customer had a good title. The bundles often contained wills and I remember one will in particular. It was already a few hundred years old and amongst the items left was 'my hunting bow....'
I often think there should be a depositary for these old documents which can be a rich source of history.
I often think there should be a depositary for these old documents which can be a rich source of history.
thank you.i live in a coucil house,who i rent from my local council.I have lived here for 2 years.
I am curious to know as i think a baby may have died in my house,i hear him crying quiet often and it's not my son.Other people have heard the baby cry aswell.I havn't a clue how to find that out, so i thought if i could find out who lived here then something might lead me on from there.
I am curious to know as i think a baby may have died in my house,i hear him crying quiet often and it's not my son.Other people have heard the baby cry aswell.I havn't a clue how to find that out, so i thought if i could find out who lived here then something might lead me on from there.
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