I found your story and house history absolutely fascinating. I too adore history. My husbands great grandmother bought a sandstone cottage... on the type written document, which lve scrapbooked for safety, that states.. a cottage with walls of stone and a roof of iron... (not an iron roof or stone walls). The correct or old English used is so quaint and very much of its time, circa early 1930,s. Joh, Bunbury, Western Australia.
Thank you-I loved this! I am a historian, genealogist, and worked as an archaeology tech in the field and lab for 5 years. I LOVE the stories behind people, homes/land, and artifacts. I am happiest hanging out in old places, with old things, and dead people. 😊
I embarked on a journey to the past with you, and it was truly astonishing how much you uncovered about its history. Indeed, I believe you and your mother are the rightful custodians of this heritage. I am ever so grateful that you shared this story with us. It was akin to stepping into the pages of a storybook or a grand cinematic tale
Someone reccomended the movie Crimson Peak a few years back and when they went to the house i said wow that house is beauitful. Lol. Houses that are a character in your life is the best
This is quite interesting! Finding out the history of your house is fun, but can be difficult. The only thing Mum and I know about our house is that it was built in 1914, and that it is haunted. We have both seen ghostly apparitions, and they don't seem to bother me. Though Mum says that the grey lady who glares at us bothers her sometimes. We've lived in our house for forty-four years. I wonder who the original owners were? ~Janet in Canada
Its so wonderful to see the love you give to dear Rosa. I'm sure her daughters really appreciate that and these videos are probably very precious to them.
Lol, I love how you breoke the narrative up with little clips and the end bit. That was interesting...i have to rewatch to fully grasp the 1860's history. Rosa went to an extra funa fterlife from good karma 💝
Oh I'd love to find out all the info on my home. Cobb & Co had it built in 1858 with materials shipped over from England. It was the first house built in the tiny town I live in, with the stables nextdoor being built initially in 1856 in wood then knocked down and rebuilt in 1860 so the horses were more comfortable. I love that you have all the deeds. If was so interesting hearing about everyone who has lived in your home 😊 Thankyou xx
What a wonderful history! Thank you so much for sharing this… I am the same way wanting to know everything and imagining life back then etc… I don’t know how you kept it all straight 😊🙏❤️ Again, thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed this.
Love..love…love.. this video! Very intriguing…. I want to know more about the sisters who lived there during the war! Any chance of further research on them? You have a charming channel and I am so glad I found it.
I loved listening to the history of your house. The longest I've lived in one place was my last home which was for 21 years. I really felt like it was my house, loved it and thought I would live there til I died but unfortunately not due to nightmare neighbours moving in next door. Now I just see myself as someone passing through a property rather than it being mine which is a shame. I wish I loved this house as much as I loved my other house but I don't feel able to let myself become emotionally attached to bricks and mortar again after the experience I had having to leave to get peace of mind again. I love the way you really love your home like I did
Very interesting! Our old house which we have gifted to our daughter was built in the 1880s and we have given her all the old documents like you have. They’re fascinating to read ❤
Very interesting. I love history. When I was a kid in Vermont we had an old farmhouse. The lady down the road had lived in the house as a child. Mrs. King was very kindly and I spent time frequently visiting her. She showed me photos from around 1900 of the farm and herself. She was a living history book. I still remember things she told me about her life . She vividly remembered WW2.
Really enjoyed this video thank you. In my last house,one of the previous occupants made a neighbour pregnant and decided to do a runner to the Americas unfortunately choosing the Titanic to sail on 😮
Haveyou seen the 'A House in Time' series from the BBC. Each series they take one house and explore it's history, the people who lived there, show you the changes that were made to the house in it's history. It's so fascinating!
Well, here I sit...tearing up and sniffing. What a sweet memorial to everyone who lived in your 'dolls house' before you and your mum🧡 How lucky you are to have such a place.
I really enjoyed this story about the previous owners of your home! It reminded me of my big pile of old photographs inherited from my grandparents and that a huge portion of those people on them I don't know anything about.
I have quite the different perspective of running fingers along the banisters that might be timely for Halloween (story time for anyone curious): In a previous video's comment section, I mentioned my grandmother was a psychopath. She really, really was. Not a hatchet-carrying psychopath but still, if her dentures were in, she bit. Her words could cut you in two and she would enjoy watching you die inside. She was a physical force to be reckoned with when she still had use of her legs. There is a point... Her house was originally my great-grandmother's house, and at any given time there would be at least four generations living under that roof. For most of my childhood the house felt like part of the family; I thought it had been there throughout time and would continue on with generations of my people. I thought that one day I would inherit it as my grandmother had (Mom wanting nothing to do with it). That house was the only stability I ever knew. Don't get me wrong -- it wasn't crazy old, or particularly scary looking (except during Christmas😅). It was a standard 2-story brick mid-century Colonial with giant, beautiful iron windows, in which I always lost count at how many around 23, when I mentally arrived the basement. We won't talk about the basement. The type of home that can be found all over the older suburbs of Detroit. It was a nice house definitely -- but it was no ancestral home, or even one of the mini-palaces of Grosse Pointe. Anyway, I had never felt such a complete whirlwind sense of belonging, of trauma, of deep melancholy and *ownership* as I did in that crazy home. I have been chasing that feeling like a drug ever since we lost it for 30 years now. As horrible (and occasionally wonderful) as it could be I just cannot ever get that feeling back. The world has been made of paper for me ever since. I often wonder what new residents feel in that home. Do they feel us? Do we resonate from our decades in that house? And do they get scared? Most of all, I wonder, has anyone ever found the letter I hid in the brickwork of the fireplace, behind the mantelpiece?
Absolutely great. Keep these up. You should have a series on the BBC. I’m trying to identify all the previous owners of our house, but don’t have all the feeds like you have, just the original one from 1923.
Found your ladies in the census - they were sisters. Gertrude actually worked in a cigarette office (perhaps the one previously mentioned) as a time clerk whilst her sister Freda mended hosiery. Fascinating. I have the deeds for the house where I originally grew up and found it was known as something completely different. Used to love digging up the garden though as we found loads of glass bottle or small stoneware bottles (presume there must have been a dump pit at the bottom of the garden). History is fascinating!
My paternal grandmother's house (in the Upstate of South Carolina) had been in my dad's family since the 1820's, built on the foundation of the previous house which dated to the 1770's (we could go in the attic & see one of the log walls of the 1770's house, which was joined together with pegs). When we had to sell her home after her death (in the 1990's), we cleaned out her attic & came across tax receipts from 1867, car registrations from the 1920's, my grandfather's war records from WWI, Christmas cards from the Victorian era & love letters from WWII. It was thrilling to see so much of my family's history.
I think it’s very interesting, the history of your house and how Rosa was the only married lady who lived there. My farmhouse was built in 1932 and a gal my age & her gran popped by a year or so after I bought it from the only owners other than the original. The grandmother grew up in the house and told me several interesting things about it. She was happy that someone who loves it had moved in. I have her mum’s Hoosier cabinet because the previous owners said it came with the house. It’s a work station with flour sifter and cabinets above & below an enameled work surface. I found out her mum hated the electric stove her sons bought her and refused to allow the wood burning one to be removed. She showed me where the chimney from the stove went into the wall, which I never noticed how the bead board was cut in a square before! (So unobservant!) But I did always wonder why there was a chimney in the laundry room on the opposite side of that wall. The hallway from the kitchen to downstairs bathroom always puzzled me as it was brick with an outside looking door near the WC going into a room of the house. (Originally her parent’s bedroom, now my library)I found out the hall was originally a screened in porch and the bathroom was added years later(they had an outhouse across the back yard). She said it was still cold in winter but nicer than tromping through the snow to do one’s business. My 3 fireplaces used to have coal burning stoves in front of them. Maybe one day I’ll find one to sit in front of the living room’s nonfunctioning fireplace! (I have an electric stove in front of the fireplace in the den(snug? TV viewing room on shady side of the house so with plaster walls it’s always chilly) and the library fireplace has gas log insert. That sweet lady & her grand daughter we’re going to give me some copies of photos of the house, giving me their email address, which I ended up misplacing so sadly I never got those. Well I loved your video!!!❤
I too have the beautiful original deeds for my 1865 terraced property, I know a wealthy single lady from Hexham had 3 built and rented them out, first Tenant was Joseph Trionfi, a Carter by trade. I really must spend some time looking into this more, I agree about the bannister rail, my hands following those who went before 😊
I need to get all my deeds in order!! I can’t believe your research. It is so wonderful. Also all the houses you named at the beginning from the Addams Family to Practical Magic are my favorites and inspiration, my jaw dropped. I blend it all and repurpose whatever works. Thanks so much for your charming videos❤️….I should delve more into the history of this house in the Hudson valley but it likes me and I like it . The previous owner revealed to me at closing that a 1920’s owner hung himself somewhere in the property and the original occupants thesecond owners are buried at the cemetery up the road. Probably was too much information but I have lived here happily through many absolute disasters for 30 years. It is fate.
I'm very much the same, the feeling of being in places where people have in the past, doing similar things like echos. It brings me a sort of joy and curiosity that makes me want to explore deeper into it! From worn stair cases, to smoothed down cabinets from use, its all just wonderful! I'm trying to do some research on my home which was built in the late 1890s! I just wish I had the cash to renovate it, it deserves the love and upkeep!
I've seen deeds of the house I live in, and agree it's fascinating to learn about previous owners. I also found some newspaper quips online and learned one elderly man had a lingering illness and died at home. Seems most of the owners had impoverished elderly years getting help, except for the owner just before me.
I really love your channel. I love the depth you go into to tell the history of your lovely house and home. You must be very proud of all you have achieved here. A real home it feels like a true homely home.
Thank you to the YT algorithm for recommending your channel to me. Subscribed and spending my Christmas day with your videos and my little chihuahua ❤ from Perth Western Australia.
I am so happy you have all the written info about your home!! What beautiful document. The handwriting is an art lost in time! My house was built in 1983 and the first owners were two ladies who said they were "cousins"!!! Then my husband and I bought after they just up and moved in the middle of the night!! No explanation or where they went! We have lived here ever since.
I loved this. I find house historys fascinating and intriguing. I think this house was meant to be yours and your mum's. It was Destiny. I hope you both have many happy years making memories in it. 😊
My house was built in 1949. We were very fortunate that one of our elderly neighbors has lived in their house since about 5 years after it was built the same year. She was born and raised there and so she knew everyone that has lived in our house and was able to tell us names and approximate years of the families up until ot became a rental property for about the last 10 years until we purchased it. I love knowing the history of it all- even if ours isn't that old.
Interesting video. I have the first original conveyance for my house dated 1830. Price paid was £30 which was obviously not an insignificant sum in those days.
My father was born in 1910, sadly no longer alive but his hand writing was so beautiful. It seems it was as important to have good penmanship as it was to have a good brain. My father only had a London schooling nothing fancy. I never followed in his hand writing footsteps.
I love that you know the whole history of your home! ❤ say a prayer for me, I’ve been looking for a home for a year now, getting ready to look at one right now that is seriously old…cautiously optimistic about this one!
Wow! How awesome and totally fascinating that you managed to dig up all those deeds. I love your home and the content you share, is amazing. Thank you from Australia...
I'm a lawyer and during my internship one of my favourite things to do was read old house documents. I live in Brazil so most of the documents were 100 years old maximum which for us is very very old. If I ever worked with something like that in the UK I would spend more time reading documents and researching who those people were than actually working 😂
This is fascinating. One thing I love about the UK is they have documents from the past ,they save everything. I did my ancestry and it was mostly in the UK I went back to the 1100s the documents there were amazing.❤🇺🇸
Spinster doesn't mean older than marriageable age. When the banns are read in church each Sunday for three weeks before a wedding the vicar will say the full name of the bride and then say "spinster of this parish" signifying unmarried at that point. Really enjoying your videos, your enthusiasm is infectious.
What a wonderful video. We have managed to find a small amount of information about our small 1893 Victorian here in the Midwest of the United States. I don't now how records are kept in GB but we're able to trace owners and more information through old tax records, phone books, census records, cemetery records and newspaper articles. We also have a historical center here in town that's a wealth of information. I'm thinking that the two women that lived in your house might have had quite a bit more information about them in the records I mentioned above. It can be a bit tedious but finding someone who is obsessed with the history of your area might help. Does your house by any chance have occasional 'visitors' from its past? Would love to hear about it if you do. Looking forward to your next video.
I am quite a bit jealous of your house and it's history. I'm in the USA (Olympia WA.) Our house was built in 1978 and we bought it from the original owners in 2008. We should have the mortgage paid off in another 16 years or so... The housing markets sure do change over the centuries, don't they?
I found this so interesting. I live in a house that was built in 1926 and I’ve been here for 43 years. I would love to know the history and all about the previous owners. I’ve never actually seen our deeds as they are being stored with our Solicitor. How did you find out so much history?
I think this is a very special story. One suggestion though, you might want to take better care of old papers by wearing cotton gloves and store them somewhere safe.
Death was very common then, in fact it wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution then antibiotics in the early twentieth century that people started to live longer, that along with inoculations and the welfare state. My father lost two siblings in the early 1940s that would have lived if jabs and antibiotics had been available/ available to the working class.
you should look into the fact that there were many spinsters back in the day, because of the many fallen soldiers. the book singled out by virginia nicholson tells the sad fate of a whole generation in more detail
Thank you. I love old houses! Can I be bold and make a suggestion? A microphone would be lovely. You could talk more softly and it would make the audio as cosy as the visuals?
How absolutely glorious! Thank you for telling us the story of your home! I love hearing people's stories; hearing one about their home is even more enthralling! 🫖💮🐰
I found your story and house history absolutely fascinating. I too adore history. My husbands great grandmother bought a sandstone cottage... on the type written document, which lve scrapbooked for safety, that states.. a cottage with walls of stone and a roof of iron... (not an iron roof or stone walls). The correct or old English used is so quaint and very much of its time, circa early 1930,s. Joh, Bunbury, Western Australia.
It's so cool that you were able to get all the original deeds for your home.
Thank you-I loved this! I am a historian, genealogist, and worked as an archaeology tech in the field and lab for 5 years. I LOVE the stories behind people, homes/land, and artifacts. I am happiest hanging out in old places, with old things, and dead people. 😊
I embarked on a journey to the past with you, and it was truly astonishing how much you uncovered about its history. Indeed, I believe you and your mother are the rightful custodians of this heritage. I am ever so grateful that you shared this story with us. It was akin to stepping into the pages of a storybook or a grand cinematic tale
Old houses are so cool! They are places full of memories and stories.
Someone reccomended the movie Crimson Peak a few years back and when they went to the house i said wow that house is beauitful. Lol. Houses that are a character in your life is the best
This is quite interesting! Finding out the history of your house is fun, but can be difficult. The only thing Mum and I know about our house is that it was built in 1914, and that it is haunted. We have both seen ghostly apparitions, and they don't seem to bother me. Though Mum says that the grey lady who glares at us bothers her sometimes. We've lived in our house for forty-four years. I wonder who the original owners were? ~Janet in Canada
I loved the video, thank you!
Its so wonderful to see the love you give to dear Rosa. I'm sure her daughters really appreciate that and these videos are probably very precious to them.
My house is 16th century and i just feel a connection with it, its comforting 💕 but it does have its spook's at times xxx
This was interesting, really enjoyed it.
Lol, I love how you breoke the narrative up with little clips and the end bit. That was interesting...i have to rewatch to fully grasp the 1860's history. Rosa went to an extra funa fterlife from good karma 💝
I love old houses and the things of every day life, and to know their stories is even better.
Oh I'd love to find out all the info on my home. Cobb & Co had it built in 1858 with materials shipped over from England. It was the first house built in the tiny town I live in, with the stables nextdoor being built initially in 1856 in wood then knocked down and rebuilt in 1860 so the horses were more comfortable.
I love that you have all the deeds. If was so interesting hearing about everyone who has lived in your home 😊 Thankyou xx
Love old homes and their history Hannah😊
I love hearing about the personal histories of old houses! Congratulations on being the next chapter in your house's story!
What a wonderful history! Thank you so much for sharing this… I am the same way wanting to know everything and imagining life back then etc… I don’t know how you kept it all straight 😊🙏❤️ Again, thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed this.
What a wonderful story your home has, and you tell it so well. Thankyou for sharing this, I really enjoyed it xxx
That was fascinating. So many lives, history, celebrations and sorrows all under one roof. I wonder what the spirit of the house has seen .
Love..love…love.. this video! Very intriguing…. I want to know more about the sisters who lived there during the war! Any chance of further research on them? You have a charming channel and I am so glad I found it.
Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for sharing ❤
I loved listening to the history of your house. The longest I've lived in one place was my last home which was for 21 years. I really felt like it was my house, loved it and thought I would live there til I died but unfortunately not due to nightmare neighbours moving in next door. Now I just see myself as someone passing through a property rather than it being mine which is a shame. I wish I loved this house as much as I loved my other house but I don't feel able to let myself become emotionally attached to bricks and mortar again after the experience I had having to leave to get peace of mind again. I love the way you really love your home like I did
Very interesting! Our old house which we have gifted to our daughter was built in the 1880s and we have given her all the old documents like you have. They’re fascinating to read ❤
Very interesting. I love history. When I was a kid in Vermont we had an old farmhouse. The lady down the road had lived in the house as a child. Mrs. King was very kindly and I spent time frequently visiting her. She showed me photos from around 1900 of the farm and herself. She was a living history book. I still remember things she told me about her life . She vividly remembered WW2.
Really enjoyed this video thank you. In my last house,one of the previous occupants made a neighbour pregnant and decided to do a runner to the Americas unfortunately choosing the Titanic to sail on 😮
My ex husband used to take mini submarines down to the Titanic, it's fascinating.
Haveyou seen the 'A House in Time' series from the BBC. Each series they take one house and explore it's history, the people who lived there, show you the changes that were made to the house in it's history. It's so fascinating!
Definitely recommend a house in time to anyone who enjoys this video (great viewing again Hannah ❤)
I love your channel, it is so interesting. I love old homes and old knick knacks and commodities.
Well, here I sit...tearing up and sniffing. What a sweet memorial to everyone who lived in your 'dolls house' before you and your mum🧡 How lucky you are to have such a place.
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❤ this was so enjoyable and loved the history makes me think I will do the same.
Thankyou
This was so cool!!! How exciting to know all this history about your lovely home ❤
I really enjoyed this story about the previous owners of your home! It reminded me of my big pile of old photographs inherited from my grandparents and that a huge portion of those people on them I don't know anything about.
Love your home
I really enjoyed this! I also have looked into the past of my house but only had to go back to the 1980s. Love these old stories!
Deeds are fascinating to me.
There are stories there.
This snippet of lives through paperwork.❤
Pride of place. ✨️
I have quite the different perspective of running fingers along the banisters that might be timely for Halloween (story time for anyone curious):
In a previous video's comment section, I mentioned my grandmother was a psychopath. She really, really was. Not a hatchet-carrying psychopath but still, if her dentures were in, she bit. Her words could cut you in two and she would enjoy watching you die inside. She was a physical force to be reckoned with when she still had use of her legs. There is a point...
Her house was originally my great-grandmother's house, and at any given time there would be at least four generations living under that roof. For most of my childhood the house felt like part of the family; I thought it had been there throughout time and would continue on with generations of my people. I thought that one day I would inherit it as my grandmother had (Mom wanting nothing to do with it). That house was the only stability I ever knew.
Don't get me wrong -- it wasn't crazy old, or particularly scary looking (except during Christmas😅). It was a standard 2-story brick mid-century Colonial with giant, beautiful iron windows, in which I always lost count at how many around 23, when I mentally arrived the basement. We won't talk about the basement. The type of home that can be found all over the older suburbs of Detroit. It was a nice house definitely -- but it was no ancestral home, or even one of the mini-palaces of Grosse Pointe.
Anyway, I had never felt such a complete whirlwind sense of belonging, of trauma, of deep melancholy and *ownership* as I did in that crazy home. I have been chasing that feeling like a drug ever since we lost it for 30 years now. As horrible (and occasionally wonderful) as it could be I just cannot ever get that feeling back. The world has been made of paper for me ever since.
I often wonder what new residents feel in that home. Do they feel us? Do we resonate from our decades in that house? And do they get scared? Most of all, I wonder, has anyone ever found the letter I hid in the brickwork of the fireplace, behind the mantelpiece?
Yes this was very interesting. Thank you for sharing. A house has a family tree, just likes it's owners. Your videos are just lovely.
What a fascinating video I loved it x
I love the history surrounding your house, very interesting thank you for sharing ❤
Absolutely great. Keep these up. You should have a series on the BBC. I’m trying to identify all the previous owners of our house, but don’t have all the feeds like you have, just the original one from 1923.
wow how Exciting 👏👏👏🌺🌺
Found your ladies in the census - they were sisters. Gertrude actually worked in a cigarette office (perhaps the one previously mentioned) as a time clerk whilst her sister Freda mended hosiery. Fascinating. I have the deeds for the house where I originally grew up and found it was known as something completely different. Used to love digging up the garden though as we found loads of glass bottle or small stoneware bottles (presume there must have been a dump pit at the bottom of the garden). History is fascinating!
The scary tales always have a grain of truth in them, looking at history is always fascinating
My paternal grandmother's house (in the Upstate of South Carolina) had been in my dad's family since the 1820's, built on the foundation of the previous house which dated to the 1770's (we could go in the attic & see one of the log walls of the 1770's house, which was joined together with pegs). When we had to sell her home after her death (in the 1990's), we cleaned out her attic & came across tax receipts from 1867, car registrations from the 1920's, my grandfather's war records from WWI, Christmas cards from the Victorian era & love letters from WWII. It was thrilling to see so much of my family's history.
It is a lovely house.
This is an amazing video thank you so much for the share
I think it’s very interesting, the history of your house and how Rosa was the only married lady who lived there. My farmhouse was built in 1932 and a gal my age & her gran popped by a year or so after I bought it from the only owners other than the original. The grandmother grew up in the house and told me several interesting things about it. She was happy that someone who loves it had moved in. I have her mum’s Hoosier cabinet because the previous owners said it came with the house. It’s a work station with flour sifter and cabinets above & below an enameled work surface. I found out her mum hated the electric stove her sons bought her and refused to allow the wood burning one to be removed. She showed me where the chimney from the stove went into the wall, which I never noticed how the bead board was cut in a square before! (So unobservant!) But I did always wonder why there was a chimney in the laundry room on the opposite side of that wall. The hallway from the kitchen to downstairs bathroom always puzzled me as it was brick with an outside looking door near the WC going into a room of the house. (Originally her parent’s bedroom, now my library)I found out the hall was originally a screened in porch and the bathroom was added years later(they had an outhouse across the back yard). She said it was still cold in winter but nicer than tromping through the snow to do one’s business. My 3 fireplaces used to have coal burning stoves in front of them. Maybe one day I’ll find one to sit in front of the living room’s nonfunctioning fireplace! (I have an electric stove in front of the fireplace in the den(snug? TV viewing room on shady side of the house so with plaster walls it’s always chilly) and the library fireplace has gas log insert. That sweet lady & her grand daughter we’re going to give me some copies of photos of the house, giving me their email address, which I ended up misplacing so sadly I never got those. Well I loved your video!!!❤
Great video! Very interesting.
I too have the beautiful original deeds for my 1865 terraced property, I know a wealthy single lady from Hexham had 3 built and rented them out, first Tenant was Joseph Trionfi, a Carter by trade. I really must spend some time looking into this more, I agree about the bannister rail, my hands following those who went before 😊
Oh Hannah you must write the story of how you and your mum came to own your beautiful house and keep it with the deeds.
I need to get all my deeds in order!! I can’t believe your research. It is so wonderful. Also all the houses you named at the beginning from the Addams Family to Practical Magic are my favorites and inspiration, my jaw dropped. I blend it all and repurpose whatever works. Thanks so much for your charming videos❤️….I should delve more into the history of this house in the Hudson valley but it likes me and I like it . The previous owner revealed to me at closing that a 1920’s owner hung himself somewhere in the property and the original occupants thesecond owners are buried at the cemetery up the road. Probably was too much information but I have lived here happily through many absolute disasters for 30 years. It is fate.
I'm very much the same, the feeling of being in places where people have in the past, doing similar things like echos. It brings me a sort of joy and curiosity that makes me want to explore deeper into it! From worn stair cases, to smoothed down cabinets from use, its all just wonderful! I'm trying to do some research on my home which was built in the late 1890s! I just wish I had the cash to renovate it, it deserves the love and upkeep!
Your enthusiasm is very inspiring ❤ And, your comment that you went into a career in death is rather intriguing 😊 Loving your posts.
Fascinating. Thank you.
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I've seen deeds of the house I live in, and agree it's fascinating to learn about previous owners. I also found some newspaper quips online and learned one elderly man had a lingering illness and died at home. Seems most of the owners had impoverished elderly years getting help, except for the owner just before me.
Loved this brilliant video. Thank you so much. ❤
This was a really good video! I love the history of houses!
I really love your channel. I love the depth you go into to tell the history of your lovely house and home. You must be very proud of all you have achieved here. A real home it feels like a true homely home.
Thank you to the YT algorithm for recommending your channel to me. Subscribed and spending my Christmas day with your videos and my little chihuahua ❤ from Perth Western Australia.
I am so happy you have all the written info about your home!! What beautiful document. The handwriting is an art lost in time! My house was built in 1983 and the first owners were two ladies who said they were "cousins"!!! Then my husband and I bought after they just up and moved in the middle of the night!! No explanation or where they went! We have lived here ever since.
I loved this. I find house historys fascinating and intriguing. I think this house was meant to be yours and your mum's. It was Destiny. I hope you both have many happy years making memories in it. 😊
I dream about living in a historic home. ❤
My house was built in 1949. We were very fortunate that one of our elderly neighbors has lived in their house since about 5 years after it was built the same year. She was born and raised there and so she knew everyone that has lived in our house and was able to tell us names and approximate years of the families up until ot became a rental property for about the last 10 years until we purchased it. I love knowing the history of it all- even if ours isn't that old.
Interesting video. I have the first original conveyance for my house dated 1830. Price paid was £30 which was obviously not an insignificant sum in those days.
My father was born in 1910, sadly no longer alive but his hand writing was so beautiful. It seems it was as important to have good penmanship as it was to have a good brain. My father only had a London schooling nothing fancy. I never followed in his hand writing footsteps.
“I don’t know if anyone will find this video interesting…?” I did!
Totally shouted at my screen, "Are you freaking kidding me?" Seriously, WHO wouldn't find this fascinating??
How interesting. I'd love to do this with the house i grew up in x
Interesting history. I think about the people that worked the allotments. They grew things to pay rent. Once the allotment was gone so were they.
I love that you know the whole history of your home! ❤ say a prayer for me, I’ve been looking for a home for a year now, getting ready to look at one right now that is seriously old…cautiously optimistic about this one!
Wow! How awesome and totally fascinating that you managed to dig up all those deeds. I love your home and the content you share, is amazing. Thank you from Australia...
Reading the deeds to my old house: Ghosts of the past...
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Omg I wondered why I felt a massive connection and need to watch you! You’re about 7/8 miles away from me if my calculations are correct ❤
Oh I love the dancing ! I thought I was the only one lively-happy-woman to do so. I am 63.
Awesome thank u
I'm a lawyer and during my internship one of my favourite things to do was read old house documents. I live in Brazil so most of the documents were 100 years old maximum which for us is very very old. If I ever worked with something like that in the UK I would spend more time reading documents and researching who those people were than actually working 😂
This is fascinating. One thing I love about the UK is they have documents from the past ,they save everything. I did my ancestry and it was mostly in the UK I went back to the 1100s the documents there were amazing.❤🇺🇸
Spinster doesn't mean older than marriageable age. When the banns are read in church each Sunday for three weeks before a wedding the vicar will say the full name of the bride and then say "spinster of this parish" signifying unmarried at that point. Really enjoying your videos, your enthusiasm is infectious.
Really interesting 🙂
How do you get hold of your houses old deeds?
What a wonderful video. We have managed to find a small amount of information about our small 1893 Victorian here in the Midwest of the United States. I don't now how records are kept in GB but we're able to trace owners and more information through old tax records, phone books, census records, cemetery records and newspaper articles. We also have a historical center here in town that's a wealth of information. I'm thinking that the two women that lived in your house might have had quite a bit more information about them in the records I mentioned above. It can be a bit tedious but finding someone who is obsessed with the history of your area might help. Does your house by any chance have occasional 'visitors' from its past? Would love to hear about it if you do. Looking forward to your next video.
My house is built in 1910 and when I bought it, i got a pack of documents like this! In 2019 I was the first new owner since 1964 😱
I'm in Derbyshire, very similar time my house was built..and I have all the Deeds too. 😊
I am quite a bit jealous of your house and it's history. I'm in the USA (Olympia WA.) Our house was built in 1978 and we bought it from the original owners in 2008. We should have the mortgage paid off in another 16 years or so...
The housing markets sure do change over the centuries, don't they?
I found this so interesting. I live in a house that was built in 1926 and I’ve been here for 43 years. I would love to know the history and all about the previous owners. I’ve never actually seen our deeds as they are being stored with our Solicitor. How did you find out so much history?
I think this is a very special story. One suggestion though, you might want to take better care of old papers by wearing cotton gloves and store them somewhere safe.
Death was very common then, in fact it wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution then antibiotics in the early twentieth century that people started to live longer, that along with inoculations and the welfare state. My father lost two siblings in the early 1940s that would have lived if jabs and antibiotics had been available/ available to the working class.
you should look into the fact that there were many spinsters back in the day, because of the many fallen soldiers. the book singled out by virginia nicholson tells the sad fate of a whole generation in more detail
How did you get these deeds? I want to do this for my house. Where do I go?
Thank you. I love old houses!
Can I be bold and make a suggestion? A microphone would be lovely. You could talk more softly and it would make the audio as cosy as the visuals?
I also only love period homes and furniture.
I love your videos SO MUCH!! They give me such a warm, cozy, homey (homely) feeling ❤️
I had a thought they could have just said they had the same last name
Please film a video living in 1940 WW2 with war rations just do one day 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I think I read somewhere that Esquire meant an educated gentleman ie. To a standard of higher education or degree.
a separate microphone would have made it easier to hear you.
Easy enough to hear
Agree; I could hear it just fine.
How absolutely glorious! Thank you for telling us the story of your home! I love hearing people's stories; hearing one about their home is even more enthralling! 🫖💮🐰