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Canny Lass, Thank you for your reply with details of the second half of the leaflet. The email which I originally received had both links so I already had it but thank you for your persistence. As a child, after visiting the memorial to my grandmother when I was 10 years old, I was always fascinated by the name of her late husband, as he had the middle name Sedcole. Nearly fifty years later I decided to do something about my interests and try and find out where the name came from. First of all I discovered that he actually wasn't my grandfather but my great grandfather. Apparently he and his wife had adopted their daughter's child, which for some reason she was unable to bring up herself. I knew that daughter very well when I was a young boy as she was a lovely aunt. I grew up, not knowing that she was actually my father's mother. He himself only found out in old age. My enthusiasm for my research continued and great grandfather Secdole's family continue to fascinate me and I went back two generations and discovered Robert Smith Watson, born in Bedlington in 1815. One of his brothers had the middle names Ogle and Bates. His mother's brother had Ogle as his only name. While sadly I must have the strength of will to not get obsessed with the Ogle family, I am intrigued to try and get some idea of why my ancestors thought enough of this family, or the village named after them, to give the name to children. We are really looking forward to our visit to Bedlington, which is now also going to include a visit to the village of Ogle. Martin

Rigger, I've researched Netherton for years and never come across an East Row. However, my research has been concentrated on the collieries and what's now known as Nedderton Village. The area of Netherton, particularly in relation to the census' stretches way beyond the colliery rows and has its boundaries as far afield as Hartford and Stannington. Symptoms has a point when he says the enumerator may have written the name incorrectly. I've found Stone Row written as South Row. Another problem is that street names changed over the years but some residents continued using the old name for many years, even on official documents. Another problem I've encountered is the apalling handwriting of some enumerators. 'First Row' looks very much like East Row on som parts of the census. Can you give me a bit more information. You mention that the entries are "among the Netherton streets and rows". What are these other streets and rows that are mentioned? Perhaps those street names might give me a clue. A link to the actual document would be even more useful.

In the 1901 census it'was simply called 'East End'