Welcome to Jen's Pages

• The outline , so far, may consist of…
• Name of house
• Date of building
• All the census years,
• The inhabitants
• Their occupations
• Photographs?
• Their religion - from places they were married in, or buried in
• Any war service, service records, or war memorials
  
• What sort of clothes did they wear
• How would the house have been cared for
• When did running water, electricity, trains, buses and so on come to the neighbourhood?

Just start with the facts–vital dates and places, places you’ve found the building in such as censuses and directories, the occupations of the inhabitants

• Historical events that took place and may have affected them–anything you have on record and any other facts
• Chronological order - fill in as much as you can.
• Anything in local history records
• Any famous people live there
• Any journals or diaries - what did they eat, what did they wear, what were the names of the fields

Here is a list of useful links - some you may find less useful than others !

QUICKLINKS

Timelines
Architecture
Electoral Lists
Trade Directories etc
Land Registration
Other Pages

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TIMELINES
http://www.history.uk.com/timeline/index.php [very poor for Welsh interests]
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Wales history timeline
http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wales/timeline/
http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wales/timeline/tl18.html

Religion in Wales timeline
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/religion/sites/timeline/

Wales History Timeline (various)
http://www.walesone.com/editorial/history_timeline/index.htm

http://www.welshdragon.net/resources/Historical/wales_timeline2.shtml

http://www.welshdragon.net/resources/Historical/wales_timeline3.shtml

Technology Timeline back to quicklinks list

http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/timeline5.html

Natural history of Wales – timeline

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/nature/sites/naturalhistoryofwales/pages/ttest.shtml

Agricultural Statistics 1908 - Cardiganshire

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CGN/AgStats.html

Architecture back to quicklinks list

http://www.britainexpress.com/architecture/

EXCELLENT SITE, and in Welsh…

http://www.s4c.co.uk/04wal/e_house_p47h2.shtml

http://www.s4c.co.uk/04wal/e_house_p28h2.shtml

http://www.s4c.co.uk/tycymreig/e_index.shtml

and this one, with papers on preservation concepts and techniques, including paper by Greg Stephenson..

http://www.civictrustwales.org/tradmat/pdf/conserving_screen.pdf

Other Links...
Thoughts from:-http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVhistoryfamily.htm

Annotated photographs of local buildings and streets
Drawings or paintings
Maps
Visual Timeline

Electoral Lists back to quicklinks list
To work out who lived in your house before you, it’s possible to use electoral lists to trace the names of every eligible voter from the present day backwards. Voter or electoral lists are usually stored at your nearest main branch library, local study centre, county archive or British Library (London) and can be used in sequence to work back, year after year, to compile a list of all previous occupants who were qualified to vote.

You need to know which Parliamentary constituency and ward your house falls in, bearing in mind these will have altered over time. Modern lists are usually arranged by street name, and then by house name or number; earlier lists don’t provide as much information but with a bit of luck and perseverance you should be in a position to get back to at least the Second World War period. Before this date, the records are harder to use, but there are other sources around to help you.

Trade and Street Directories    back to quicklinks list
Annual publications listing principal tradesmen in towns and cities were produced from the late eighteenth century onwards, which often included principal citizens, farmers and gentry. By the nineteenth century, more and more houses were included in the records, until residential street directories started to appear, particularly from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century onwards. The early directories are often listed alphabetically, but they are increasingly arranged by street name and house number; this makes it easier to find your property in the lists. As with other sequential sources, such as electoral lists, it is often easier to work back in time, so start with the most recent records. These can usually be found at the nearest main library, local studies centre or county archive.

Land Registry    back to quicklinks list
If you can’t find any historic records about your house on modern maps, or in electoral lists and street directories, you should apply online to the Land Registry to see if you can get the registered title plan and associated abstract of title. This will show the extent of the property in question, and list the former owners or occupiers. The cost is minimal - £4 per plan, plus £4 for the abstract of title. Failing this, you can try to get hold of your title deeds from your mortgage supplier, but the chances are that access will be refused, or granted for a fee.

www.landregistry.gov.uk/

SOME OTHER PAGES which might be useful..
http://www.walesgenweb.com/ and http://www.genealogytoday.com/

1910 VALUATION OFFICE SURVEY
http://archifdy-ceredigion.org.uk/schedules-js.html

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LIFE ON THE LAND
http://digidol.llgc.org.uk/METS/XAM00001/ardd?locale=en

[FANTASTIC SITE... only brief comments, but could be very helpful]

MANORS
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/

DETAILED HISTORICAL INFO by search…
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp

POOR LAW UNION (INFO) - FANTASTIC INFO HERE
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/

Some HISTORY INFO:
BRITISH HISTORY ONLINE SEARCH - useful for "fishing trips"
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/search.asp?query1=

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A useful article on community history and house history by Nick Barratt   
is NOT currently available - so we will have to try later perhaps [Sunday 30/11/08]    http://www.thefamilyhistoryproject.co.uk/articles.php?id=5