I have been told that you can find out the history of old places. How would I go about it?
2007-10-16 03:47:10 · 8 answers · asked by Just me again 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Depends how old it is an whether you live in a listed, historically relevant building... they don't keep records like that of just any old house. And there isn't a website called peoplewhodiedinyourhouse.com
You could find out who lived in your house and died WHILE they lived there.... but it would be virtually impossible to find out who actually physically died INSIDE the house. Unless you suspect some grusome murder happend there that might be reported in old newspapers or something.
I'm guessing you think someone must have died there? Maybe no one ever has?
2007-10-16 03:58:14 · answer #1 · answered by juicy_satsuma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on how old your house is. Assuming it is of some antiquity you need to find out when it was built, then you can look through Kelly's Directory for the area which should list the inhabitants. If, between one edition and the next, a name disappears then that person might have died. But equally, they might have moved away. You could only check by searching local papers in case there was a death notice. Death Certificates, incidentally, are not kept by the County Council. The Land Registry is unlikely to be much help. The property register tends only to show the current owner and, in any event, the information it has (if any) will only date from the time the title to the house was first registered., which outside London is likely to be during the last 3 or 4 decades of the 20th century (I was a solicitor). The County Council archives department may have details about the history of the house and its surroundings, if the house is old, but finding out exactly who died in the property is something of a massive task.
2007-10-16 05:34:42 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First find a list of all the people that have owned the house before you did. The Land Registery will be useful here.
Armed with these names, then go to the census records for your area (you can do this on-line at the National Archives for free, but the latest census is dated 1901).
Then you need to check death certificates, which will probably be held at your County Council offices - contact them and they are normally quite helpful.
Only by checking the actual death certificate will you be able to find out the actual place of death and therefore if someone has died in your house.
2007-10-16 04:11:18 · answer #3 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bought land some time ago, and the land registry deeds showed the various owners going back a long, long time. It could be the same for your house. Start there, with the land registry. If you get names you can check against published censuses (last one released is 1901). Your local council may also be some help. If you have to pay council taxes, they would surely have a record of who the previous owners were, who were paying back then. None of this will tell you who might have died there, but if you started with some basic information, you could then check local graveyards, perhaps church records. And if you do a yahoo or google check for those names, you may even find something there. Ask if your library has local newspapers from long ago on microfilm - if someone died, there may be something in the news or obituaries of the period. Good luck !!
2016-03-13 08:58:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-31 05:35:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you can find out if anyone died there, as place of death is usually only found on the death certificate, but if you go to ancestry.co.uk you can search under the Phone Books (under Directories and Member Lists) for your House No and Street and you'll be able to find the names of the people of who lived in your house and when.
In order to find out if they died *while* living there though you'd have to cross reference with the Census of that year.
2007-10-16 04:01:54 · answer #6 · answered by †®€Åç∫€ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask the relators or look up old newspapers.
2007-10-16 03:54:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
See - https://tr.im/BackgroundSearch
2016-12-01 10:21:04 · answer #8 · answered by cyndi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋