Have you visited the Family Home ?

[sallysmum]

Only really just started the genealogy bug so haven't had chance to visit any homes yet (first trek is planned for next weekend) but one very kind roots chatter photographed G grandmother's house for me - I'm Cheshire based and the house in question is South Wales - one of those spine tingling moments to see the house where she lived and gave birth to her first child.  Thanks Suein 10b!
Sallysmum

[kerryb]

Sadly because most of my ancestors were Ag Labs they lived in unknown cottages on farms, many of which were probably temporary dwellings and no longer exist.

I live in hope though

Kerry

[AngelFish]

You're not alone there Kerry.  Mine were mostly ag labs too.  Either that, or the houses have been demolished.

[Mobo]

GPS = Geographic Positioning System, a small, hand-held, electronic device which permits accuarate spatial location of points on the earth's surface by triangulation of signals received from satellites orbiting the earth. 

 

R i i i i i g h t !!

Thanks Erato

 

[GRACELAND]

Yep same here ""Mine were mostly ag labs too.  Either that, or the houses have been demolished.))

I found on of mine in a Village Called Downton on The Rock Hereford /Shrop border it was suppose to be on the common ,, in fact there was a few bits of stone , Should i call in Time Team 

[Mobo]

 

Just two years ago, I was flabbergasted to discover that my BUCKLEY's actually came from a village called Siddington, just 4 miles up the road from where I live.   You can imagine the excitement the first time I drove there to find the old house and look inside the church. 

I thought it would be an easy thing because on the 1841 & 1851 census, Jonathan BUCKLEY (a farmer) was living at Simpson's Brow, and on the 1861 Census at Simpsons Bank.  Sadly it wasn't to be as no-body who lives there now, knows where Simpsons Brow was and could only guess at it's location. 

Just the same there were plenty of BUCKLEYs in the church yard, and it was great to go inside the church and reflect on all the ancestors who'd been there before me.

 

[GordonD]

Grew up in Lanarkshire where most of my ancestors are to be found. Pretty sure none of the buildings remain though. The building where my gran lived as a girl was on the site of the clinic where my brothers and I had all our checkups with the health visitor when we were young.  Definitely know that the miners' cottages over in New Monkland are no more. A lot of the places they were from were often only a few rows of cottages round the village of Lonriggend. Lonriggend the only place still on the map. Can remembering visiting Sumerlee Heritage Park in Coatbridge as a child and they have miner's cottages that have been built according to the conditions of one in the area by decade in the 19th century. I think another visit would be worthwhile to give a visual as to where John, etc lived at the time.(The housing reports that have found on where they lived would give a good comparison as to whether they had better/worse conditions than those shown).

Haven't been able to visit the places in Dumfries where some are to be found yet. Many of the other places in West Central Scotland but not realising had people from there.
As for visiting the where all the Irish were from: I would if only they had left more clues so that I know where to visit!

Gordon

[Gadget]

Some of those ancestral seats that I referred to were the homes of 'ag labs'. I was lucky that the actual name of the houses were on various documents. Many of them were still standing. Sadly they have mostly been gentrified/holiday-homed.
 
Still I took the photos and told them about my ancestors. I expect it would have been a topic of conversation over dinner 

Gadget

[CarolBurns]

Beautiful church Mobo

My Welsh family homes are still there - well most of them are. Mainly in the small villages though one has been changed to a shop which, apparently I used to visit with my Great Uncle Owen when I was very little

Carol