If your family roots stretch into Devon, there’s welcome news from TheGenealogist. The site has just released the Lloyd George Domesday Survey for Devon, building the coverage.
The survey, formally known as the 1910 Valuation Office Survey, was the Edwardian government’s attempt to record every parcel of land and property in England and Wales following the Finance Act of 1910. For each property, surveyors noted the owner, occupier, a description of the building or land, its use, and assessed value — a granular snapshot of the country on the eve of the First World War.
The Devon release covers 352,478 people and organisations, linked to more than 2,500 square miles of period mapping through TheGenealogist’s MapExplorer™ tool. Rather than finding an ancestor listed against an address and being left to guess where that stood, you can plot the actual property on a historic map and compare it with the landscape today.
Devon joins the counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex and Wiltshire in this collection unique to TheGenealogist.
Find out more at thegenealogist.co.uk/lloyd-george-domesday.