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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: BreadBaker on Tuesday 29 December 20 22:13 GMT (UK)
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Evening. Struggling to read a surname and also the status of someone in the 1851 Portsmouth census. Not convinced that Ancestry is correct.
Looking for the Head of the household Sarah ------. Be---nt or Be--out?
And also want to check the status of both Sarahs. I have Sarah (Head) as widow and Sarah Moody as Married. Do you concur?
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Status of 66yr old Sarah is widow
Surname is Bessent according to the addition on Sarah jnr entry
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Sarah Bessont.or Bessout...Nurse...widow and the other Sarah married
Carol
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Family Search are also indexing the entry for Sarah Snr as Bessent www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGBM-Q9V
Monica
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Status of 66yr old Sarah is widow
Surname is Bessent according to the addition on Sarah jnr entry
Sorry, I don't understand. What "addition" and which Sarah jnr as there are two.
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Family Search are also indexing the entry for Sarah Snr as Bessent www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGBM-Q9V
Monica
They are but then they also have her birthplace as Riddletown whereas I believe it to be Puddletown.
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It looks like it says Puddletown to me.
Carol
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If you look at the entry for Sarah Moody aged 27 - she is shown as daughter hence my reference to Sarah jnr
If you are using Ancestry - when you access her entry via the index - underneath Sarah Moody is Sarah Bessent in brackets
However - I looked up the births of the 2 Moody children and mothers maiden name is shown as Townsend - not Bessent
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The Bessent uses the double 's' or long 's' feature to show the double 's'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
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Many thanks everyone. Alfred Thomas (or more correctly Thomas Alfred) is my great, great, grandad and I shall carry on trying to find out exactly how the household fits together.