Find house owner?

[Emm]

I am wanting to find out who owned a particular house in 1911.
Can anyone please tell me how I go about doing this?
Thank you.
 

[coombs]

Hi

Electoral registers for your local area will be a start. Where are we talking about?

Ben

[snowball]

Hi - if you don't get the answer you need from house deeds, the electoral roll or the 1911 census entry then you can try the more complex records of the Valuation Office Survey, 1910 to 1915 - kept at the National Archives  - which distinguishes between residency and ownership: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=102&j=1
Regards
Rob

[coombs]

Ratebooks are also good.

[Emm]

Never heard of Rate books, before.
 

The property was a cottage at Normanby, North Yorkshire (now Cleveland).
My maternal grandparents lived there - on the 1911 census.

I was born at the house which my grandfather had built.
But, between the cottage and the house, I have been informed that the family lived in a council house.
I am interested in finding out why.
All I can think of, is that the cottage was to be demolished, and they had to live somewhere until the house was built.

Thank you all for your help.

Oh my goodness, snowball. Just looked at your link. Completely double dutch to me, I am afraid.
 

[coombs]

Ratebooks show people who paid the rates on the properties. Although it can be hit and miss as often the landlord or owner paid the rents if your ancestor was just a tenant. If your ancestor owned the property or was the landlord/chief occupier then he is likely to appear on the ratebooks.

Ratebooks can be a substitute for electoral registers.

[Redroger]

Not just me then with National Archive Guides. However, when there I find that the staff are usually helpful, so it's worth a trip.

[newburychap]

The Valuation Survey records at TNA are very easy to use. They come in two parts:

1. Index Maps/Plans - OS Maps marked up to show boundaries of each property and annotated with a reference number for each property.

2. Field Books - books (thousands of them) each containing the information on 100 properties.  The reference on the map relates to entries in these books.  Information will include, at the least, the address, owner and value of the property. Tenants are often given, some have quite detailed descriptions of the property.

The TNA leaflet gives the record series containing the cataloge series for the plans and field books.

The survey was done ca 1911 following the introduction of a new tax on the rise in value of land - introduced in the 1910 Budget by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George.  Hence, the survey is sometimes known as the Lloyd George Domesday. 

A second source is the local copies in county record offices.  These differ in that there is less room to fit in the information. They consist of the properties in tabular form (the field books have two pages per property) as far as I can tell they were drawn up locally (probably from ratebooks) at the start of the survey. So they can differ from the field books which are the end result of the survey.

[newburychap]

The start of a Field Book entry and a segment from a map/plan.