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handwriting help please :) :)

grandaughter82

master brummie
hi,
any suggestions on the maiden name and the Coventry area - well i think its a Coventry area they have wrote.
writing back then grrrr lol
thankyou xx

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Webb formerly Barnett. [Father]. Spon Street, Coventry. (Spon Street still exists; just off the west edge of the city centre.)
 
1851 census for Spon Street, Coventry

Thomas Webb age 36 born Mollington Oxford
Charlotte age 34 (previously Charlotte Cragg Barnett married 1838)
Jesse age 11
Eliza age 9
Charlotte age 8
Thomas age 1
 
1851 census for Spon Street, Coventry

Thomas Webb age 36 born Mollington Oxford
Charlotte age 34 (previously Charlotte Cragg Barnett married 1838)
Jesse age 11
Eliza age 9
Charlotte age 8
Thomas age 1

thankyou alberta i stumbled across this too on ancestry but on the birth certificate that i have the son thomas is down as william thomas webb born 1849. so im confused and i cant find anything out there with william thomas. so im wondering if they just put thomas instead of the william?
 
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