"B" placename in Hampshire

[bibliotaphist]

This one has me defeated. A place of birth on the 1861 census (RG9/734/34/12):



...and again on the '71 (RG10/1265/34/9):



I think this is the same person on the 1881 census (RG10/1265/34/9), with a clearly different place of birth. However I wonder if this is a mistranscription in the summary of what the original census form said(??):

[Treetotal]

This might help:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HAM/indexpars.shtml#B

Carol

[bibliotaphist]

This might help:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HAM/indexpars.shtml#B

Carol

Thanks Carol. "Beaulieu" is the most obvious near(ish) match; could be an attempt by the enumerator to tackle the spelling!

[Edward Scott]

My immediate reaction was 'Beaulieu'

Edward

[Craclyn]

Thinking phonetically it could be the enumeratorīs attempt to make sense of someone saying Beaulieu.

[Craclyn]

Snap Edward
We both had the same idea.

[Treetotal]

This might help:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HAM/indexpars.shtml#B

Carol

Thanks Carol. "Beaulieu" is the most obvious near(ish) match; could be an attempt by the enumerator to tackle the spelling!

That would have been my choice but wanted to see if you came up with the same.
Carol

[bibliotaphist]

Right then; thanks all. That's enough of a consensus for me to go and start looking in Beaulieu.

I have to check the spelling every time I type it.

[chinakay]

Thought Beaulieu was pronounced Bewlee.

Never mind