Genealogy Chat

Is it possible to get the house numbers and streets in certain areas in England from the past?
I would love to walk the streets my ancestors lived on, but a bit hard from Australia.
I have found that many of the same family lived next to, or very near each other, and I would like to map where they were. I have also found families with the same surname living what appears to be nearby, but without knowing the distance and relevance, it is hard to chase down all of them.
Thanks

Have you had a look on Google Maps?
You can type in an address and view the streets there.
Some of the towns may have been re developed, but you might be lucky with some addresses.

http://maps.google.co.uk/

Gwyn

Wendy,

It is certainly possible to purchase copies of old maps for most areas. Just Google the name of the town + old map and you should get some results.

I am pretty certain however that none will show house numbers. Depending upon the size of the town house numbers may not even been used back then. Also as an area developed the street/road name may have changed and indeed it was not unknown for house numbers to be changed as well as new properties were built on land between existing properties.

For example Pot House Lane, Sheffield was renamed Coleridge Rd, Sheffield between 1881 and 1891.

Thankyou both. I have just reloaded google world and taking a look now, though one of the streets in question is now offices etc. The reason I would like to look at the street numbers is because it appears my great grandfather, his father, his brothers, their inlaws etc all lived on the same street, or what I have discovered to be the next street along. What;s more, they seemed to have house hopped over the years. The possible parent/s of a illegitimate ancestor may have lived in the same street, and working out where they were located might solve some mysteries.
:-D

Wendy
I think house-hopping was not uncommon for some families.

One of my extended families can be found in at least 6 different houses in a Portsmouth street, within just a few years.

Gwyn

I would agree about house hopping - sometimes large families and not enough bedrooms so they split the family up. Hubbies Uncle lived with his grandparents once the younger ones started to arrive - parents, 8 children, grannie & a boarder in a 2 x 2 up and 2 down terrace houses!

Check electoral roll books and you can find out where people lived in between census books!

Hello Wendy,

You can try downloading ''Google Earth '' useing the following link :-

http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html

You can then look at the street view of most existing addresses in UK and I belive even some in Australia

If you can letme know the names of some of the streets you're looking for I will try to get some old photographs from the available web site here

Regards John

Thankyou John.
The street/s I am particularly interested in are Ely Place (renamed Eele I believe), and Digby st. Mile End (Homerton/Hackney/Bethnal Green) (also Queen st)
I know that many of the family lived at no. 2, 3, 5 Ely Place, and also at Digby st over many census records.
My interest is that in 1851, the possible parents of my GGgrandfather may have been living down one end of the street at 32 Ely Place, while the rest of the family were at 2 Ely Place, and some on Digby. I am presuming Digby was very close as it came up as the next address on the census records I have.

Hi Wendy, did you know that when you find a census record you can click the arrows at the top of the screen and it takes you to the next record in that street.

Linda :-)

Check out these old maps they show the streets and business that were there. The Godfrey Edition - Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Index

Hope this helps

Yes Linda ty, but unfortunately, BMD doesn't have the census, and I'm not a paid up member of ancestry:(
TY Lydia.