BETWINED ??

[joboy]

In 1871 census RG 10 175 page 66 refers to Marylebone Dorset Square Ward.
That page is very unclear but the street I am pretty certain is 'Boston Place'.
The family that I am interested in are the 4th and 5th entry from the bottom of the page ........... named WOOD.
What is their address ? .............. what I see is a word that looks like 'Betwined' ............... and this peculiar word appears on adjacent pages.
Any thoughts ??
joboy

[casalguidi]

Hi Joboy

What you are seeing is the word "returned".  If you look to the left, you will see a census schedule number ie. the number of the form that the enumerator gave out and that was obviously returned uncompleted.  If you look at some of the entries - this is written next to a husband or wife - they wouldn't have had a form each.  Make sense?

It is more usual for a space to be left for returned forms - not to be written against somebody elses entry.  Blame the enumerator!

Best wishes

Casalguidi

[joboy]

Thank you for that ......... it does make sense.So I can safely assume that the WOOD family lived at no.54 Boston Place?
joboy