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lisaking

lisaking Report 30 Dec 2009 19:05

I wonder if there is any way of finding who lived in a house hold after the 1911 censes.
Hope someone can give me some info .
it was a mining village so would there have been some rent records held .

GeordieCath

GeordieCath Report 30 Dec 2009 19:10

You could try electoral reg .
I often ring North Shields library to look up for me and they are only too happy to do this .

grannyfranny

grannyfranny Report 30 Dec 2009 20:00

Another useful library source is Slaters Directory, a bit like the modern Yellow Pages, but not always indexed so you have to do a lot of looking.