Can someone pinpoint where this house is? NOW WITH PHOTO

[Phodgetts]

I could well imagine that the house still stands somewhere but with a different name. I had a similar house quest and mine was Eveline Cottage. It was on the Isle of White and it is now The Rectory! I was very fortunate that someone on the IoW was able to help out, she was / is a worker in a local museum and the subject grabbed her interest especially as there were links with Osbourne House and good old Queen Victoria.

I looked up the meaning of the name Ormonde with the hopes that it might give us a clue, but apparently it is an old German variant of Armande. The meaning of Ormonde is 'army man'. I would hazard a guess that it would mean something to the original owner of the house or the person who had it built.

P

PS Where id your Gt Aunt live?....... where the photo was found.

[Annie65115]

You mention Norton - are you sure that was the Yorkshire place and not the Norton that was in Derbyshire/Ecclesall Bierlow?

I ask because that Norton is now part of Sheffield and within the wider curtilage of Norton is an estate called Jordanthorpe. Jordanthorpe was built in the 1960s on farmland and the roads on the estate are named after the old farms that were once there; and several roads are called Ormond Rd/Drive/Close etc.  So if there's any doubt over which Norton it was, this might be worth checking out.

[nicktothewood]

It is most definitely the Norton in yorkshire, near malton. I know this because I still live there  . The photo was found here but she inherited most of the things from her parents so it may have come from them (parents also lived in Norton).

The change of name is what worries me because it could be literally anywhere in England so I cant really narrow it down to one location.

google street view is extremely handy for this though.

Nick.

[Phodgetts]

Perhaps a rethink on the method of research is needed.

"We are trying to work out whether the lady on the photo is a family member, but to do this we need to find out where the house is."

Perhaps researching all the family members as thoroughly as you can will reveal the house and it's whereabouts. I expect that there will be more info in the archives to be had researching it that way, rather than the other way round. I would imagine that the answer lies somewhere in the 1891 / 1901 and 1911 census somewhere. For the photo to have been kept in the family, I would expect that it is more than just a passing interest and quite probably of personal note, i.e one of the women folk from the family is indeed featured in the photograph.