Thanks again for your help, Brian. Do you or does anyone else know what 'Independent' would mean in the context of an IOM census? Presumably she was not a blood relative of any of the other members of the household? She may well have been a sister-in-law of the head of the household, James Hutchin.

I am still following the line that my Ann was born Ann WOODS ca. 1877 and was married to a William HUTCHIN but, unfortunately, this census result fails to provide concrete evidence either way. Thanks again for your time.

Patrick
Bolton