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Thank you for your help guys, that makes complete sense.

Chrissie.

Name: William Smallwood
Year of Registration: 1855
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Warwick (To 1932)
County: Warwickshire
Volume: 6d
Page: 263

Possible death for William

I think this is them in 1851,
the image is shocking so it is badly transcribed

Name: May Samllwood
[Mary Smallwood]
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1823
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Willm
Gender: Female
Where born: Serrington, Kent, England

Civil Parish: Warwick St Nicholas
Town: Warwick
County/Island: Warwickshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability:

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Registration district: Warwick
Sub registration district: Kenilworth
ED, institution, or vessel: 2f
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 83
Household Members:
Name Age
Eleana Herbison 22
Alfd Samllwood 7
Edwin Samllwood 4
Emma Samllwood 1 Mo
Louisa Samllwood 8
May Samllwood 28
Willm Samllwood 30

HO107; Piece: 2073; Folio: 537; Page: 20;

May is actually Mary and she was born in Leamington not Kent
Louisa is 3 not 8 and so on

Mary is not 23, it looks like thirty something, but has a line through it. William is a tailor

Living in Bridge St Warwick

Christine,

In the C19 "in-law" often meant step-child. Perhaps Mary had children by a Mr Smallwood before marrying James Hydon.

Peter

Son in law and daughter in law usually meant that the wife had been married previously and they were her children from the first marriage.
The husband has sort of adopted them, there was no formal way to do it.

They are his son and daughter in "the law"

1861 census
7 Portland Row, Leamington Priors
James Hydon Head Mrd, 45yo, Bricklayer, born Northampton.
Mary Hydon, wife, mrd 43yo, Laundress, born Warwick, Birmingham.
Eliza Jane Hydon, daughter, unmrd, 3yo, born as above.
Alfred Smallwood, son in law, unmrd, 17yo, labourer, as above.
Louisa Smallwood, daug in law, 13yo, no occ, born as above.
Agnes Smallwood, daug in law, 8yo, scholar, born as above.

1871 census
33 Comyn street, Leamington Priors
Mary Hydon, Head,mrd, 53yo, Laundress, born warwickshire.
Emma Smallwood, daug, unmrd, 30yo, gen serv, born as above.
Edwin Smallwood, son, unmrd, 25yo, plasterer, as above.
Eliza J Hydon, dau, unmrd, 13yo, nursemaid, as above.
George H Hydon, son, 10yo, pageboy [?], born as above.

All of the Hydon people are my family. What I can't work out is who are the Smallwoods and how can they be daug in law and son in law to the head of the house and also at such a young age? Also, why is Emma Smallwood down as daug to the head in 1871?
Chrissie.