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Re: Camping/gites/B&B

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Originally Posted by EuroTrash (Post 11747846)

Come and look at mine... but then it was built in the 1600s.
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How do you know? It may be obvious from the building methods but while trying to trace the history of our house in Normandy I got stymied at the Revolution.

Architectural evidence, especially in the outhouses, suggests it's much older but there are no records that I can so far find.

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11749538)

I spend quite a long time researching after I first moved in and tracked down useful snippets from various sources, including the online departmental archives. Can't remember what I found where now, but I did find a number of dated cadastrale plans / street plans showing the individual buildings, and also one dated image of the street. It probably helps that there's a very large and elegant manor house, built around the same date, 3 doors away at the end of the ruelle (the ruelle was probably a row of workers' cottages), clearly the manor house was important locally and attracted a fair bit of attention, so this bit of town is better documented than most parts.

Re: Camping/gites/B&B

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Originally Posted by EuroTrash (Post 11749770)

Thanks for that ET. Our place is immediately next door to the local church and I'm told that our back garden was originally a graveyard. I'm convinced (but cannot document) that the outhouses were at one time associated with the church and graveyard. The main part of the house is "younger" but was certainly there in 1795. I'd love to trace it back further when I have the time.

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11750205)

Get yer spade out and and get any remains you find carbon dated, obviously don't do this if the ex is in the back garden....:lol:

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Originally Posted by Chatter Static (Post 11750271)

Get yer spade out and and get any remains you find carbon dated, obviously don't do this if the ex is in the back garden....:lol:

I don't have an ex but the OH can help with the excavation I suppose.

She's good at shovelling shit.

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Would old maps help? When doing the Tree for people (I do Genealogy too lol) I try to find really old maps of areas...It sometimes helps with families that have stayed in one area and house, If the house was still there in say 1660, there is a chance the family might be......Old Maps might help in giving you an approximate date of your house ;)