House History

We've had a lovely weekend, not doing an awful lot until this morning, as we had Katherine visiting us, and it's been a marvellous reason to sit around, chat, and drink a lot of tea and coffee. We also made use of Katherine's considerable social history knowledge, and made some real progress working out some aspects of the house's history. We looked back at the census records from 1841 to 1911, and managed, eventually, to pick out the house, and find out something of who was living here until a century ago. More on that when I've had a chance to pull it together, but we're hoping to fill in some of the next period, from 1911 until about 1970, when we once again have some idea of who's lived here. As the census data won't (all) be released until I'm nearly 90, we'll have to resort to other methods, I think.