Squiggly writing help please

[Biker]

Hello,
This is an extract from the 1851 census, sorry original copy is quite poor so this is the best I can do.  The surname of this family is Gage (but looks like the enumerator messed it up a bit). Can figure out most of it but ... (apologies for large image)

what I can't figure out is:

Mary ? (what is her initial) and where is her birthplace?
There appears to be a number 3 written right next to her initial, or is it part of it? 


Thanks in advance
jonathan

[Biker]

If it helps, here are better shots of the 'initial' and 'birthplace' problems.

[casalguidi]

Well, Mary could just be Mary B - if you look at the B in Bloomsbury with the curly bits afront but just separated

Still looking at the other ................

Casalguidi

[suey]

Looks like Mary J B, was she a MaryJane with a middle name?

Don't know about the place of birth though - give us a clue   where would you expect her to be born and where in the Country was the census taken?

[Biker]

Suey, I wasn't going to give clues or my ideas so as not to influence anyone  but ..
It's the 1851 census in St Luke, London.

Not sure exactly about the marriage, but there is a likely one for a plain Mary or a Mary Ann - this is unconfirmed though.

On her birthplace, I initially thought City ? Mx but also thought Clerkenwell.

The two Mary's I have in mind - one born St Giles, Cripplegate and the other St Ann Blackfriars.

Any help?

Jonathan 

[casalguidi]

The best that I can come up with is:

City So.....  M (for Mdx)

Don't know

Casalguidi

[suey]

Does look like City something -
just had a quick look at Reg Dists on Genuki for London and Middlesex, closest is City of London, but I can't make that second word look like London 

[Lyn S]

My guess would be 'Mary B' born 'Clerkenwell'.

The first part of the place of birth looked as if it could be 'City' but I think that is due to a stray line from the entry below.

I may well be wrong but I don't think 'City'  - as in 'London' - would have been used in the 1851 Census.

Good luck!

Lyn S

[legs11]

hi there,

I think the squiggle is the letter B, if you have a look at the birthplaces the first one is definitely a B.

the places, i am not sure of but the third one looks like chiwigan, i think.

don't laugh if I have the place in the wrong county, I live down under so have to look at it upside down, and it's too hard to turn the computer upside down.

legs11