is anyone good at ancestry/census records?

[ElizabethMedora]

I seem incapable of making this site work! On the 1911 census website I can find the record for my house, but would need to pay to see the entry. I have a subscription for ancestry.co.uk but cannot find the entry for my house?! Anyone any good at this?

[WestmorlandSausage]

are you logged in?

[ElizabethMedora]

yes! There doesn't seem to be a function to search by address - not one that works for me anyway. I am turning up 2000+ records...

[MrsCosmopilite]

I don't think I'm still subscribed but could it be that your street has been renamed post WW2?

[juneybean]

Having just ended my 2 week trial there was definitely an option to search by address on the 1911 census

[MrsCosmopilite]

I think you need the 'advanced' or 'further search details' bit. You can then put the town/city in and the street name as a keyword?

[ivykaty44]

1911 census is more difficult to search by street but it can be done
You need though to go bsvpck to 1901 and list the names of people in the same street and the search for those same names in 1911 to see if any are still living in the street

Once there you should be able to navigate your way back kwards and fowards

[ElizabethMedora]

I very much doubt it, it has the same name as the park and street that are on it, name pre-dates the war - also I can find it on the 1911 census website, I just want to find it on ancestry so I don't have to pay twice!

When I go to the census/electoral rolls page, I can only search by name/lived in/family member etc - I just simply want to enter an address?

[ElizabethMedora]

House wasn't built until 1904...

[ElizabethMedora]

I'm on the advanced search - filled in sub-registration district, registration district and street name, I'm getting 7.5 million results

[ParsingFlatly]

Hmm, I haven't tried a search by address on Ancestry.

Looking at it, have you ticked the "Exact" box beside the street name?

7.5 million results is obviously reyther more than exists (in fact it sounds like every household in the country).

Would also second working from the 1901 census.

[Hulababy]

I can't see an address street search tbh.
You need to know the enumeration district I think

[juneybean]

search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1708

Try this...

It's the summary book, then when you find the address you'll find the head of the family and then be able to look up on 1911 census for his family.

[ivykaty44]

Tbh if your doing house history go to the county archive and look at the 1910 Domesday books they are a great source of info for house history

A tax scedual put together of all properties in England and Wales in 1910 including who owned the house, who lived in it the rateable value and how many rooms etc along with a map if your lucky

Also use the second edition is map from 1905 as this should shoe your house

[ElizabethMedora]

Thanks so much everyone for your help - juneybean I used your link & found it! Alfred, Maud and their two small children, William & Winifred. No servant, which surprises me - maybe they had a daily who came in. ivykaty I will try that next!

[juneybean]

Glad you found it!

I looked up mine the other week (which was also built in 1904) and it was a two up two down with husband, wife, two kids and two lodgers living in it where did they put them all?!

[juneybean]

Also I just found a good map site which if you zoom in to where you want to see it lists the available maps down the side:

www.oldmapsonline.org/#bbox=-110.00061,-51.981497,119.921265,72.001067&q=&datefrom=1000&dateto=2010

[ElizabethMedora]

yes, in trawling through the records trying to find my house I found neighbouring houses with 8+ people living in them!

Results for my house seems quite tame - in fact very like us, family of 4! Interested to note that it lists 7 rooms which is useful to know as I always wondered if the outrigger was a later addition.

What spurred me into looking it up was DC's school celebrating its centenary, & wondering whether there was a child living in our house that might have attended the school when it was founded - looks like little William & Winifred would have been just the right age!