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depends what source you are looking at...i use FindMyPast and there is an option to simply "search by address".You could post the details,,,i could look it up for you?   

FindMyPast ?  Sorry, new to all this

Hiya guys,

Another newbie here.  My Uncle Charlie was recently a subject on Heir Hunters. He changed his name to Karl Franz Eduardo von Eudeni.  I was on the programme ( aired in July 09 ) His past is very sketchy and I wanted to trace our history back even further ( Cullum ) I know that my recently found Cousin Ron has traced our history back to 1810, but I wanted to know is it worth me paying out for Ancestry.co.uk to try and go back further? Also, on that site or Genes Re-united, can you search for more than one branch of the family ie : Mothers side?
Many thanks

Steve

Have you asked for them?  Maybe they don't just dish them out

Linda

Good idea.................  just as another aside, most of the paperwork / photos shown in the programme were given to the film company by me.  They came into my possession when my Dad died last year.

Thank you Mother - it should have read that Charlie put on old gramaphone records of Ivor Novello, learnt the words, then sang them.  This is another avenue to his ability and of course, others that contacted Savant Syndrome.

sing them.
After his illness subsided, he went to Paignton as a camp entertainer, then travelled throughout the UK, then, after changing his name to Baron Carl Franz EduardHiya guys, sorry for the delay in replying and thank you for all of your comments.
Thank you to Neil too for a good insight into the background of the making of the programme.  As Neil said, it was Hoopers that carried out the investigation regarding my Uncle Charlie.  My filming took place in mid March of this year and lasted about 2 1/2 hours.  I would love to say that there were Directors, Producers, film crew etc etc here, but, two really pleasant young ladies from Flame TV carried out the task and may I say, how really professional they were. As it happens, my Mum was asked to do the filming, but declined, so yours truly had to do it.

As the programme stated, Charlie died in 1994 and was somewhat of an enigma.
He appeared to have gone AWOL from about 1957 ish and the family lost contact with him. He served his time during the second world war and just after that, he contacted Meningitis.  This, his parents were told, would either leave him brain dead, or brilliant - the latter won.  My Dad, who would have loved to have been on the programme, but unfortunately died in December last year, said that Charlie would put on old gramaphone records of Ivor Novello at full volume, learn the words, then  Von Eudeni, to Europe, singing mainly Opera.   When his singing days were over, he worked for the Lord Chancellors office in the House of Commons for Lord Dougals Frank KG.  He worked there for approx 14 years, untill he was forced to retire in 1988 due to ill health.
His Dad fought in the Boar War and first world war, but due to Mustard gas poisoning, was unable to take and maintain a full time job on his return to civvy street. This is when he began his new career as a street musician. Some might say that this is where Charlie might have gained his love of music before his illness, but that is not the case, he wasn't that interested.  By all accounts, he was a loner and as stated before, an enigma.