A house through time…

Have you ever wondered who once lived in your house?

Do you wonder….
👉Who built it and why?
👉What were their names?
👉Their occupations?
👉How did they live their lives?

Tracing the history of your home is a fascinating and all absorbing hobby.

But where do you start?…..

Roughly speaking, house-history research can be split into two large (massive!) themes:-

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👦     The people who lived in your house.  👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

🏡The building itself.🏡

So there’s two broad questions to ask about your home…

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a) Who lived in your house? 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👧‍👦👦👧👨👩

A variety of records can be used to discover the stories of your home’s occupants – from Census Returns and 1939 Registers, to tithe apportionment records and parish records.

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b) Your house 🏘️🏚️🏡

You may be able to guess a lot about the physical building. Its building material – such as brick, flint, stone, timber-framed.

However, you will want to research other information such as when, why and who built your home. The date of your house – the era/century/decade.

Finding out information about the house itself is often the more complex of the two broad themes connected with house-histories…

Sometimes records will exist about the construction of your house. But not all the time…

Certainly, for older homes, records will be far more sketchy. You’ll need to use all sorts of detective work to pin down your house’s full story!

That’s all part of the fun!

🔎🔎Step-by-step, peeling back the layers…until you find the true story of the history of your house… 🔎🔎

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If you are fascinated about the history of your house, then you’ll be interested in my online course

🏡 If Walls Could Talk…

Uncover the secret history of your home🏡

I hope you’ll join me and take part in this fascinating course.

 

 

Post updated: April 2020 Post created: September 2019 © Kate J Cole | Essex Voices Past™ 2012-2020