31,000 more 1910 land tax records online

Fascinating English land tax records from the years before the First World War have been released by TheGenealogist. Researchers are now able to search 31,394 newly added records of owners and occupiers to discover their ancestors from Merton, Mitcham, Morden and the Wimbledon areas.

Each record is linked to clear scanned pages of the actual IR58 Field books, sourced from The National Archives, and the properties plotted onto large scale contemporary IR121 maps. These maps are digital copies of the ones used at the time by the Valuation Office of the Board of the Inland Revenue to locate each and every parcel of land in the survey taken in between 1910 and 1915. TheGenealogist’s versatile Map Explorer allows Diamond subscribers to view georeferenced modern and historical layers beneath the IR121 recordset map and so discover how the roads, fields and general environment has changed over the years.

House historians and family history researchers alike will appreciate the ability to unearth valuable particulars about ancestors’ homes and land from these areas of south west London. They will also be able to see how similar, or even how very different the area where their ancestors lived had been at this time when compared to the map of the area today.

Included in those records being made available today is the past and present home of the iconic tennis tournament known as the Wimbledon Championship. The researcher can discover that the present day Centre Court, home to the only Grand Slam tennis event still to be held on grass, had in 1910 been rural fields put to use as ‘grazing land’ by its owner Lady Sarah Lane.

Read TheGenealogist’s article: From Grazing Land to the Grass of Centre Court .

1851 Dublin City Census Index

TheGenealogist has also released almost 60,000 records from the 1851 Dublin City Census Index. This new release will be a great aid for those researchers with ancestors who may have been living in Ireland’s capital city on 30 March 1851, when the census was taken.

Researchers will find the index to the 1851 Dublin census to be a wonderful tool for anyone searching for people in Dublin city in the mid-19th century. It provides the names and addresses of approximately 59,000 heads of household and was compiled by Dr D.A. Chart in 1915.

The only complete surviving censuses for Ireland that exist, 1901 and 1911 (over 8 million records) can be searched via TheGenealogist’s unique search tools, allowing you to search for an ancestor using their address or keywords.

Earlier records compiled for 1813 to 1891 were destroyed at the government’s request or by the civil war in 1922. This index survived the fire and is one of the few remaining fragments of census information available for that time.