New Series - A House through Time

[josey]

OK, need to catch up on iplayer 

[Siamese Girl]

Well I'm struggling to find any of them pre or post what happened. The girls mother, Alice Adelaide(sic) Brown died June quarter 1887 Liverpool aged 35, which means Alfred Robinson's wife Ann and his mistress Alice were both much the same age.



Carole

[sallyyorks]

I'm afraid that the situation was certainly not understood outside Lancashire, and has been ignored in history books. For example, the BBC's timeline of Victorian Britain (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/victorianbritain_timeline_noflash.shtml) has only 3 events in first half of the 1860s - a Post Office Savings scheme, the death of Prince Albert, and the linking of education funding to test results. Another online timeline at https://timelines.ws/countries/GB_E_1860_1910.HTML tells a little of how the American Civil War impinged on the political classes, but nothing of the effects on Lancashire. These are typical of the attitudes of the vast majority of history books.

Ag Labs in the south of England still toiled in the fields and received the same wages as before. A few better-off chaps bought tickets to cross the Atlantic for the sake of adventure.

Lancashire starved.

The worst hit town during the cotton famine was Stalybridge, which was in Cheshire.

[bykerlads]

A really good programme.
At last something worth watching on mainstream TV!
Wonder if we will be told anything more about the current occupants? Probably not but quite interesting to know who they are, what they do, where they get their money from.
A bit nosey of me, perhaps?

[AntonyMMM]

Just caught up on this and found it very interesting. Shows just how much of a story you can put together by looking at all the records available.

Contained more examples of useful genealogy work than most episodes of WDYTYA.

[Mowsehowse]

Wonder if we will be told anything more about the current occupants? Probably not but quite interesting to know who they are, what they do, where they get their money from.
A bit nosey of me, perhaps?

Well that depends on if they are trying to get easy celebrity status or not, as per the current fashion!! (See this mornings news.)

I am quite enjoying the series though I agree with all the -ve comments I
also feel that it "contained more examples of useful genealogy work than most episodes of WDYTYA" as AntonyMMM says.

[Mowsehowse]

Also, may I add, I was delighted to get some long shots of that gorgeous synagogue! 

[andrewalston]

I'm surprised that few people have commented on the good use of genealogical resources to find out about the lives of the people who lived in the house.

We saw censuses, BMD certificates, newspapers, directories, wills and other records being accessed to put the stories together.

Isn't this is something that we are all trying to do?

We ought to be congratulate the makers.

[Familysearch]

Anyone else recognise the man who explained things at the synagogue? He has been on Heir Hunters.