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Initials after house or property name
« on: Thursday 12 August 21 08:33 BST (UK) »
I'm trying to find out which property in the very small ( 14 houses !) hamlet of Wooperton, Northumbrland, near Alnwick.belonged to the Burdon family.   Various websites and gazetteers list the name of the person i'm looking for but not the actually property and they have the entry :
Augustus Edward Burdon, Hartford Hall, R.S..O  and Wooperton, R.S.O.
The period covered would be around 1880-1920.
What does R.S.O stand for, please?

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Re: Initials after house or property name
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 August 21 08:43 BST (UK) »

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Re: Initials after house or property name
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 12 August 21 08:44 BST (UK) »
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Burdon

Hartford Hall mentioned
But not at Alnwick

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Re: Initials after house or property name
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 12 August 21 08:51 BST (UK) »
Quote from: bewitched1965 on Thursday 12 August 21 08:33 BST (UK)
What does R.S.O stand for, please?

Are you sure it does not say RSD - Rural Sanitary District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_district
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Re: Initials after house or property name
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 12 August 21 08:57 BST (UK) »
Perhaps Hartford Hall was

https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/hartford-hall/

Not at Wooperton

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Re: Initials after house or property name
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 12 August 21 09:11 BST (UK) »
Probate entry - died 29 December 1908 - gives his address as Hartford Hall, Bedlington.
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
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Re: Initials after house or property name
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 12 August 21 09:14 BST (UK) »

"...Various websites and gazetteers list the name of the person i'm looking for but not the actually property and "

What are the lists?   Electors?  Property owners?    What?

Census 1891   has 14 households at Wooperton Northumberland.  Four families associated with the railway  (search..... Henry HALLAMBY), Wooperton Lodge, Wooperton Cottage....accounts for the households.

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Re: Initials after house or property name
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 12 August 21 09:14 BST (UK) »
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

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Re: Initials after house or property name
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 12 August 21 09:21 BST (UK) »
1881 census - with address as Hartford House, Bedlington

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WM-H1S9


Added:  Using Ancestry and looking at the Enumerator's walk - property is described as Hartford Hall.
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY
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