Genealogy Chat

20 odd years ago, we bought our first property, a flat in Walthamstow. At the time I was working as a daily Nanny in Wellington Road, Bow. It transpired that the woman who we were buying the flat off of worked as a teacher in Wellington Road, Bow. Whats really weird is four months ago I found my ggguncle on the 1891 census living in Wellington Road, Bow.

My family lived in the same street for 110 years. They were there in 1851 and only moved out when it became a car park in the late 1950s.

When I started this tree I believed all my ancestors had lived in London. When I got to the 1851 census in Stepney I found my GGFx2 had lived down the road from me in Norfolk where I have lived 20 years. So my ancestors would have walked past my door! I can now go down to the churchyard and see my GGF and GGMx4 headstones. So near and I had no idea.

Theresa I know the feeling, i rang someone in uk who i thought i knew from the 50's he's lived for 30 years in the same street as i did almost opposite our old house & to make it worse when i was visiting in 1976 he was there how bizarre! John.

I know how you feel Theresa. My dad's mother died in Portsmouth when he was 3 and younger brother was less than a year old. In later life my uncle moved to Southampton and was thrilled when I obtained a copy of their mother's birth certificate and we found that she was born just along the road from his then home.

wow. you are walking in your ancestors shoes! It is a small world !

Hi All Today i recieved a certificate for my grandads sister and the address they had for her was in the same street that my family moved to in 1980. They lived a no 5 we lived at 44. And they say its a small world. Theresa. x