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Heather

Heather Report 9 Feb 2010 17:27

This is a wonderful site and for the past decade I sort of use it madly and then forget about it for a while :) You could read the stuff all day on there, contemporary writing, records etc. from year dot.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Default.aspx

Alan

Alan Report 9 Feb 2010 19:31

Thanks for reminding me Heather, you're right !......do forget these great sites.

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 9 Feb 2010 19:56

A great site for 'putting meat on the bones'.

Can't remember the exact details from memory but the family story had a non direct ancestor owning the land on which a famous London store stands.

Thanks to the censuses and BHO I was able to confirm that he was a tenant of a property that stood on land that is now a side entrance to the famous store!

Amazing what you can find!

Chris

Researching:
Avatar...My darling Dad. 1931-2019 'Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 'A brickwall is a problem that you haven't solved yet' Dave Annal http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/brick-walls-and-lost-ancestors/

Heather

Heather Report 10 Feb 2010 10:54

Wonderful site. I went there yesterday as a cousin had found some 18th century papers referring to our ancestor, who was a cloth merchant, working from the "Cows Face in Cheapside". He thought it must be some sort of pub :) Quick scoot round British History online showed it was a guildhall type building firstly used by leather guild and then by the mercers. Amazing details on there.