was your wife clever enough 
She's certainly clever enough; there's a website that sells historical maps centered on any specified postcode. It's a print of a digital scan rather than a 'genuine' old map.
Our house was built sometime in the 1870s; I'm not sure exactly when because it and the adjoining house were originally one property. When it was divided (in 1909, I think), the original deeds stayed with the other half, and I just have the documents relevant to my half. The earliest mentioned date is June 1st, 1874 when the land was bought by one John Hadrick Stephenson from Joseph Whitwell Pease and William Randolph Innes Hopkins. Stephenson built the house sometime before July 15th, 1879.
