Hidden stories of the people who once lived in these North East houses
IF only walls could talk, what stories would they tell? The Findmypast website has seen its number of users surge over the course of the pandemic as so many people have spent the lockdown period researching their family trees, and it has recently added a new search function which allows people to find out who is recorded as living in their house when censuses were taken. Once you have a name, you can then search the site’s other records – old newspapers, maps, electoral rolls, the 193...
Source: thenorthernecho.co.uk