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Isabella Perry was baptised 1 Dec 1878 at Coleford, Somerset.
Parents: William (labourer) & Mary, of Coleford.

Mary or Mercy?

Mercy Dawson married James Button in Frome in 1851.
Philip John Button, mmn Dawson, born in Frome in 1869.
Mercy Button married William Perry in Frome in 1873.
Alice Kate, Isabella and Henry Charles Perry, mmn Dawson, born in Frome in 1873, 1875 and 1878 respectively.

Birth
Edgar Leslie Perry b Bristol 1908 mmn Knight
Note Occasional Copy A (not sure of that)

Ah, now that does look interesting.

Did you know that if the GRO indexers couldn’t read the surname it is entered as ...

Yes.

But FreeBMD indexes ten births including Edgar Leslie Knight with the same reference - Bristol, 1908, June quarter, Vol 6a, Page 5 - and all 10 are missing altogether from the births index on the GRO web site. Not just the mothers' maiden surnames, everything. I think the GRO must have missed a page out when they were indexing that book.

What was Isabelle’s maiden name?

I don't know. That is one of the things I would like to find out but as the birth index entry is missing from the GRO online index I have no way of knowing it for certain in the short term.

Was the ‘long s’ still used around 1911? I thought the word could possibly have been ‘assistant’ with the second letter of the word being a long s

I did briefly wonder about that, but a female cook as an assistant to a carter seems a bit odd.

Also odd, though nothing do to with deciphering, is that the son's birth is in FreeBMD but not in the GRO online index; I can't be sure of having found the daughter's birth; I can't find the marriage; and I have no idea where the husband was. Or why the information about Isabelle's marriage and number of children has been crossed out.