where I live we guessed that the time of our house being built would be to coincide with the colliery being sunk. (1874). Perhaps some local history sites might help, you can often find out little snippits that way. I suspect also that trade directories might help, not sure whether you mean stuff you can find online or by going to the archives, Perhaps the local Library might be able to help?
Julie They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........
if it is a street name, perhaps contact the local council? they should be able to help.
I know our Street was renamed, from what it usedto be called, but not sure when, All I know is that in the phone book, there are some of my neighbours with the old name and its still in the phone book today...
Julie They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........
I'm trying to confirm/disprove one of those family "myths" for OH's family.
There is a street in Whitwell known as Malthouse Row. Bolsover District Council suggests that these were either cottages for workers at the Maltkilns or the original Malthouse, and that is the line followed by the local history group.
Family legend has it that the father of a great great uncle built that row, his name being John Malthouse:(
As a starting point I need to work out when the row was built I think - but really don't know where to start.
just having a quick google.. do the census show any of the malthouse row or otherwise? I would have a look at maps of the area, (Library?) and see if they are on any of those.
Julie They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........
In the process of checking that Julie. The row is definitely there in 1881 on the census, but obviously I'm trawling through the others t osee if I can spot a "start" date
Unfortunately the enumerators in Whitwell didn't always put anythong down other than "Village":( so I'm trying to do a "walk" at the same time
Local building material is pink limestone. I did glance up this road the other night in the darkening and the houses I could see defiinitely appeared to be stone built. I must have a better look (with a camera) in full daylight
I found information about some ancestor's houses by reading local history books. Only this weekend I found that the houses my Smoothys lived in in Chelmsford were built to be cheap dwellings in 1812 (when my gt gt grandfather was born) and after being refurbished in 1818 (how tatty could they have got in 4 years!) were let to respectable tenants chosen by a committee headed by the rector. My gt gt grandfather's sister Elizabeth had the tenements as an address on her baptism record in 1820 so they must have been respectable.
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