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How could my Grandmother have got away with it?
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ZZzzz | Report | 6 Jul 2012 18:55 |
Declare herself Widow on 2nd marriage when I have found her 1st Husband died 40 ish years after she was "widowed" This was in Western Australia by the way. :-0 |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Jul 2012 18:57 |
a good fibber!!!! |
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Bobtanian | Report | 6 Jul 2012 19:18 |
I strongly suspect My great aunt did the same, but I have never found a death for her first husband, unless she hid him under the verandah, |
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Island | Report | 6 Jul 2012 19:21 |
One of my great grandfathers has 'married' next to his name in the same handwriting as whoever filled in the 1911 - presumably him - but this is crossed out and 'widower' written above it in a different hand. That too is crossed out. :-S |
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Island | Report | 6 Jul 2012 19:23 |
Bob, they called patios back yards in them days :-D |
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Bobtanian | Report | 6 Jul 2012 19:27 |
Ah! |
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ZZzzz | Report | 6 Jul 2012 19:51 |
Bobtanian. |
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Bobtanian | Report | 6 Jul 2012 20:44 |
I have a pretty good info on the children of the first marriage,alas (three girls) |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Jul 2012 20:48 |
My g grandmother had 8 children out of wedlock, by the same man, and in the 21 years before they married, she was known always as Mrs P- the surname of my g grandad and all the children bore his surname.. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 6 Jul 2012 20:55 |
My understanding is that after 7 years of no contact and the "widow" having made genuine efforts to find last Husband and could not find him, needed to make a statment to that effect before declaring herself widowed. |
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BrianW | Report | 6 Jul 2012 23:03 |
My great grandmother married great grandad as a spinster despite having been married before (and having a young child by her first husband). |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 7 Jul 2012 05:43 |
In England, at least until fairly recently, you have never had to show proof of your marital status, so you could tell the vicar whatever you wanted, and he would believe it. |
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Ingrid in Oz | Report | 7 Jul 2012 08:03 |
ZZzzzz it was the same in Australia if after 7yrs of no contact you could declare yourself widowed. Thats how most of the convicts remarried and had second familys out here while the 1st wife/husband was back in England. |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 7 Jul 2012 13:54 |
My daughter and I both married in different parts of the UK and both had to show birth certs and certs of baptism and swear as to our status and she married in the next parish as ours at the time did not have church bells - which she wanted! |