Bertha, your experience is exactly the same as mine both near here at Uffington and at The Dean Heritage Centre. At the latter, I mentioned to staff that my family lived in there between 1840 and 1870. I expected the doors to be locked and not to be freed until they had extracted every last shred of information. Not a bit of it, they were entirely underwhelmed.

Same thing near here at Uffington. My grandmother was born there in 1878. Interesting family with many connections. Up to 25 years ago, most of the inhabitants were my family. Contacted them recently for second time without even the courtesy of a reply.

Roger