How to find out all the people who lived and died in your house?

Question

is there anyway of finding out who died in your house and how they died years and years ago, i live in the uk and my house is owned out right.

thanks

Answer 1

turn the lights off sit still and say in a soft voice  IS THEAR ANY BODY HEAR  ?    and iff no one ans one one died in yous house ok

Answer 2

I bought land some time ago, and the land registry deeds showed the various owners going back a long, long time.  It could be the same for your house.  Start there, with the land registry. If you get names you can check against published censuses (last one released is 1901).  Your local council may also be some help.  If you have to pay council taxes, they would surely have a record of who the previous owners were, who were paying back then.  None of this will tell you who might have died there, but if you started with some basic information, you could then check local graveyards, perhaps church records.  And if you do a yahoo or google check for those names, you may even find something there.  Ask if your library has local newspapers from long ago on microfilm  -  if someone died, there may be something in the  news or obituaries of the period.

Good luck !!

Answer 3

Finding out who lived in the house - Know approximately the age of the house. If it is fairly new, say 30 years or less, it is likely only very few people will have ever lived there, maybe even only one before you. If it is old, it will be hard to find out.

The land registry will have a record of that house and who has bought and sold it since it was built. They won't have a record of who died there.

Your local registrar records births, marriages and deaths. Any deaths in your house will be recorded there, but finding anything out here may be difficult (they will search by name and date of death, rather than by place of death.) You would have to know the names of those you suspect died during their time in your home, and buy their death certificates. You will most likely find people often die in hospital rather than at home. Chances are nobody ever died there if it is fairly new.

Find out from neigbours who lived in your street a long time who was there before.

But I have to ask, why on earth would you want to know all this?

Answer 4

You could trace through old directories of your town and trace the people who sed to live there that way and then look up data on each one to see where they died.  You could also trace through the deed records on the house, but remember, that just because someone owned a house doesn't mean that they themselves lived in it.  Also remember that at any time, someone could have had a sick relative stay with them who might have passed  in the house.  These people are ones that you would never be able to identify through directories or deed records.  Good luck and I hopethat you find what you are looking for.

Answer 5

go to the local libruary and ask for the electoral roll

i did it for my house as i had to prove i lived here

you can find out who  lived there not sure about died in the house

Answer 6

I would have thought the best way to find out is ask the neighbours. The estate agent that dealt with the house sale would know a little bit about the history of the house as well. I think I would ask at the estate agents first thing in the morning, good luck I hope this helps

Answer 7

If your house is owned outright then the deeds should be in safe keeping somewhere. Usually people have a safe box, or keep them at the bank for safe keeping in order that they don't get lost.

On the deeds it will have all of the previous owners of the property, and the original land owners. From this information you will be able to search local directories, and electoral rolls to find out more info.However, this will not list children.

Answer 8

My house was built in the 1960s.  I checked the deeds recently and it does include the contract between the builder and the first person to buy the house which was for something like £3000 I think, which gave his name and address.  I know they were there until at least the late 1970s as when we lifted the carpets once to fit a new one, one of the owners children had thoughtfully left their name and date written on one of the floorboards (!).  I also know the name of the man who came after them and before us in the 1980s, as he was made bankrupt and repossessed.  For several years after, we still got letters from debt companies chasing the guy.  Our 75-year old neighbour was able to tell us a lot about the history of the close as she had lived here since it was built as well some 40 years ago, and seeing as we are only the third family here (with some 25yrs residence now), there is not a lot of history for us to draw on.  It's a pretty boring area really!

If your house was built outside of living memory in Edwardian or Victorian times or earlier then you will be best visiting the local library and checking copies of the old electoral roll.  Most go back well into the mid-Victorian era at least before any gaps in years, and since they are arranged by address, it is usually a simple task to look up a certain road for a certain year or years and get some idea of when a family were first recorded at an address and the last year which they disappeared from an address and who replaced them.  The only problem with this method is that Victorian house numbers weren't as fixed as they are today and changed quite regularly.  Many people find their families recorded at one house number on one census and then apparently a few doors down on the next census, when in reality they haven't moved at all, just the house number was changed!  Even my grandad in the early 1900s was never sure if he lived at number one or number seven!  Early house numbering can be somewhat confusing and random to say the least!

Answer 9

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Answer 10

You could try the registers of your local Church (may be in local studies library) although addresses will probably not be shown, if you know family names from deeds you may be able to identify.

Also try archives of any local newspapers (may be in library). You will need patience for that, it takes me about four hours to do a year.