1851 surname and status - Portsmouth

[BreadBaker]

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?

[CaroleW]

Status of 66yr old Sarah is widow

Surname is Bessent according to the addition on Sarah jnr entry

[Treetotal]

Sarah  Bessont.or Bessout...Nurse...widow and the other Sarah married
Carol

[MonicaL]

Family Search are also indexing the entry for Sarah Snr as Bessent www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGBM-Q9V

Monica

[BreadBaker]

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.

[BreadBaker]

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.

[Treetotal]

It looks like it says Puddletown to me.
Carol

[CaroleW]

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

[shanreagh]

The Bessent uses the double 's' or long 's' feature to show the double 's'. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s