How to find who lived in your house before you?

blackstar

Hello all,
I am just wondering if anyone knows how I can find out who lived in my house before I lived in it? It's changed hands a few times so just interested in going back maybe 10 or 20 years?  This is for Scotland.
Thanks all

theartfullodger

Ask neighbours, postie, local pub/newsagents.  See what names come on mail .. Often names of deeds (renting or bought it??).

You might find something that puts you off living there....

bouicca21

Electoral roll?

eddddy

Asking neighbours is usually a good bet.

Are you just curious? Or do you want to do something like trace a previous occupant?

And do you mean "lived in" your house (i.e. the occupants) or do you mean owned your house?

jimbog

Try 192.com

user1977

If you mean owned it, it’s easy while a property is/was in the Sasine register, and much harder since it went into the Land Register. Roughly whereabouts is the property and when did you (and previous owners) buy?

YoungBlueEyes

Find your nearest old-fashioned hardware store and/or olde worlde pub, of the variety where the customers don't have a full set of teeth between them, and ask them. Truly.

I used to live in rural Lincolnshire. When I bought that house I realised I had no spare light bulbs. So off I went to the olde proper hardware shop. Not only did the owner know that he didn't have the lightbulbs I needed, he told me why. The people who lived in my house before me (it was an ex rental) were Polish and had changed all the light fittings to suit their bulbs. If I wanted them all changed his brother could do it and I'd find him in the olde pub. I did and he was and he did change them all. Told me about the people that lived there before the Polish, and everything I could possibly have needed to know about the landlord (big local farmer) too.

Fountains of knowledge. the lot of them