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Re: History of a house
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 20 July 19 19:43 BST (UK) »
Because I thought I was on the Llansannan site.
However, where I live in Anglesey, The local archives have all the House Rates back to 1745. I have used these to find all the houses in my parish to this point and beyond. In 1608 every house /field was taxed. these can be found in the Public Record Office. Also, there was the Tithe Rate Assessments  in 1910 and the Tithe Rates abt 1840. also you can find closer to date on the 1939 Register. Best of luck, however if you are in Llansannan, Denbighshire I am researching that area.

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« Reply #10 on: Saturday 20 July 19 19:52 BST (UK) »
To answer the Answer given on the land Registry this was introduced in 1925, so if you have them on 1911, try getting onto the other censuses 1901 down to 1841. Use the name in 1911 to go backwards.

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Re: History of a house
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 21 July 19 15:58 BST (UK) »
Sometimes you can find clues from tracing the property on old maps if you can find it:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15&lat=50.4375&lon=-3.5639&layers=6&right=BingHyb

If you look through older maps you may find when the house appears so you can narrow down the time frame in which it was built or when the surrounding land was subdivided etc. The local libraries or archives sometimes hold town plans which might contain more detail.

If you believe you have found the address in the 1911 census you may be able to trace it back through earlier censuses.

This might be stating the obvious, but have you googled the address?

Yes, but I just get recent sale listings for flats in the property, or houses in the same road!
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?