Demo House

The story of this house

The Demo House family tree captures sixteen individuals spanning nearly a century, from 1888 to 1985. The family is marked by a striking concentration of surnames, with Test appearing in ten records and Vance in six, suggesting either a close-knit lineage or the integration of these two family lines through marriage. Those whose lifespans could be calculated lived to an average age of seventy-four years, a robust figure for the era represented. The record itself is spare in certain details—birthplaces have not been documented for any of the individuals, leaving their geographic origins unknown. Yet what emerges from the numbers is a family whose presence spanned nearly a century, rooted in the surnames Test and Vance, with members living into their seventies and beyond. The tree invites further research to fill in the particular places and circumstances that would give fuller shape to their story.

Those who came before

1888–1962