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Hi, Would anyone know what U S O would stand for next to a name on a Census. The Census I've been looking at was on Dorset OPC'S for 1851 in the Parish of Hampreston, it only seems to be next to two entries for George and John Lockyer. Thanks Ellen.

It is probably USD..........Urban Sanitary District Reg

Thanks Reg, But it definately is U S O not U S D and why only next to two people and no one else ? Ellen

I see what you mean - it is placed quite carefully next to these two entries rather than being scrawled across the page. They are both lodgers - could it mean 'under settlement order'? Someone else may be more clued up about settlement orders than I am, to confirm/rule out. Here is the Ancestry extract for ref: 1851 England Census about Geroge Lockyer Name: Geroge Lockyer Age: 13 Estimated birth year: abt 1838 Relation: Lodger Gender: Male Where born: Christchurch, Hampshire, England Civil parish: Hampreston County/Island: Dorset Country: England Registration district: Wimborne Sub-registration district: Cranborne ED, institution, or vessel: 6a and 7a Household schedule number: 61 Household Members: Name Age Geroge Lockyer 13 Harriett Oxford 43 James Oxford 8 Mo John Oxford 68 William Oxford 2 John Sackyer 10 Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1854; Folio: 399; Page: 14; GSU roll: 221001.

This is from the Workhouse Site: Settlement The principle by which a person could only claim poor relief from the parish under which they were officially 'settled'. Anyone trying to claim relief without correct settlement qualifications could undergo forcible removal to their own parish. A child's settlement at birth was taken to be the same as that of its father. Illegitimate children were granted settlement in the place they were born. If a boy became apprenticed his parish of settlement became the place of his apprenticeship. At marriage, a woman took on the same settlement as her husband. Settlement could also be acquired by various means such as renting a property above a certain value, or being continuously employed employed in a job for a year and a day.

But Settlement orders were defunct by 1851! OC

Thanks for all your help on this one, it has given me some thinking material. Ellen.