Genealogy Chat

I used the electoral registers combined with census records to trace the occupants of our house. If you start out with http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/ and enter your road name, you may just strike lucky. I found some documents relating to the building of our house and visited the local archive to read the documents.

Jillian,

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Estelle,

Unfortunately the Land Registry entry is not the same thing as the deeds. The deeds - which is what you really need to see- would probably have been held by solicitor who was originally responsible for the first LR registration or possibly handed back to the owner, or, worse still lost or destroyed.

However, I would still go ahead and obtain a copy of the registry, as it may have something of interest. You could always ask the solicitor who acted for your purchase for a copy or if he has anything on file which might be of interest to you.

You should have a few names on the deeds if you bought the house. That doesn't mean that they lived there though they could have rented it out.

The best bet is street directories & electoral rolls back to 1900 then census.c

Yes - Owners of Land 1873 - it shows up on Ancestry but you may need a surname.

Oh, and you might still be able to search the 1881 by address on the familysearch site for free.

Jill

You can search the 1911 census by address.

Could be worth trekking to the local library to check out old maps of the area - sometimes names show ...

Electoral rolls while you're there?

Owners of Land - can't remember the year 1873? I'll check and come back and change it if it's wrong - that may be at your local Record Office.

And some (nearly all?) of the other censuses (but don't ask me how!). There is a thread somewhere by Jonesey about searching censuses by address. Possibly on Find Ancestors board.

Jill

Hello all,

I'm currently doing well in my search of my family history. However to try something new, and seeing as I've recently moved into an old property (I imagine from the 1800's) in Southsea, Hampshire, I thought it might be interesting to find out some of the history of this house as it's very 'quirky'. Can anyone suggest how I could go about this? Would I have to pay to access such information?

Thanks in advance
Estelle