https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-portal-request-historical-copiesI last paid £4 for the last transfer of a Title for a current modern property and £4 for the Title Plan. However, on some of these previously I've had a reference to an earlier 20th Century Transfer and it just
might mention the person you are looking for, or owner who shared perhaps the entry to the rear. If not it may give you a Title Number at least, to send for any historical copies to see what was recorded and if of any use.
Check the current Title Plan address matches the address location and numbering on an early 20th Century Large Scale OS Map with numbering of circa 1930, to confirm that no renumbering / renaming etc., has taken place, which sometimes happened as places grew.
Some houses might be owned by the same person, builder or local authority. Is a builder's name or house name visible besides a number, which might be found in newspapers?
Some Wills say things in detail like, I bequeath numbers 8, 10, 12, 14 and 18 Church End Road to my Gt Nephew Mr R. _____, except No.16 which I sold to Mr R Fortescue in 1928.
Or a newspaper might happen to report the Auction last week, 16 Church End Road was knocked down to Mr S. Smith of Pontypridd.
One Will, I got recently for my Family Tree said I bequeath all my Property in Trust. My Housekeeper Mrs _____ will administer the Trust for my Family, so the Will gave me absolutely sweet nothing, no family members nor property locations!
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Even the old Voters Polls or Rolls of House Owners in England only sometimes gave one 'qualifying address' to vote in that locality.
Eventually, that stopped and you did not need to own any property for the entitlement to vote and by 1930 a Voters / Electoral Register wouldn't confirm Ownership
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I was looking for Land Revenue Registers and found these which start off with Runcorn and Cheshire
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_cr=LRR&_dss=range&_ro=any&_st=adv ----------
A historian contact of mine found his older property amongst The National Land Revenue (LR) records, but I have never found one identifiable property in LR. However, I never gave it long enough to understand whether the different parts and volumes of the LR series cross referenced with each other and also because the old building being researched was owned by one of the Lords of the Manor and subject to a 'Quit Rent' and felt the Lord's records would be more helpful and they were.
Land Revenue Records
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A newpaper Sale advert before and after your relatives lived there (if it was advertised)
might sometimes confirm the owner.
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The 1910 Valuation Survey with both an OS Plan and property description should give the Owner in 1910, who can be a relative of a previous or later owner when researched, or might have left a Will, or advertised the address later (proving he or she was the owner during the 1930s), a record of which might be in a local paper, or a Sales Particular in an Archive.
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If a subsequent Owner has lodged his/her Deeds at an Archive (voluntary) they might show up on a search of all the Archives databases in the area, or in an Archive near the owner's address who made the voluntary deposit.
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Some Deeds for my Family have no Public listing, but are deposited in a Solicitors Place of Deposit and I had to go to the current location today, which had been identified from various old records, Yorkshire Property Memorial location descriptions, Street Maps / Plans, Town Surveys, Census, an old postcard and see what building stands there today, to track down who and which Section was responsible and make formal written permission to their Solicitor to see if they would allow me to make an appointment.
Even a page from an 18th Century Family Bible, showing our link to the Burton family was amongst the Family Deeds and it took a whole week to go through the two packs.
At some Archives, some Deposited Deeds are still on Handlists (not on Online Databases) and will require a reading of handlists.
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I have found Deed and Manor documents relating to various Ancestor properties for Sale at Ephemera Sellers and purchased the originals during the last 30 years.
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Sometimes one can be lucky and drop on a Family Deed but some addresses I've kept an eye out for many years off and on and never found anything. Even a Historic Land Registry enquiry failed to find the early 20th Plan used to Register the address. Only a late (fairly recent) Plan with a several L.R. Historical Registrations, with references to it being Transferred out of other Titles.
If the Owner who owned the address of interest, owned the whole block back in 1930 or other houses or land nearby, you can even find neighbours with their Deeds which mention the property / ies next door and if friendly with current Owners, sometimes they might be prepared to show a known enquirer. Many don't reply to a polite letter of introduction or the slightest bit interested in their property history, but about 10 to 20% can be later contacted verbally by knocking their F/dr (after a letter) and the odd one who knows you might help, or simply say they are private and have to respect that, or say their Deeds are in Storage and they probably are, or only have the last Transfer to them.
