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Bigamy!!

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MrDaff

MrDaff Report 25 Sep 2009 17:22

In the 1860's, if someone is convicted of bigamy, would the bigamous marriage records be destroyed? Just to save me searching if they are... just found a fella, right name, right area, convicted of bigamy... lol... don't you just lurve these skeletons, lolol!! My dad is gonna go ballistic!!

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 25 Sep 2009 17:30

A friend doing a one-name study tried to order a certificate for a marriage she thought may be bigamous, but the GRO list must have been 'flagged' somehow and they wouldn't issue one.
Having tracked the family, we thought we knew which church they may have used and were able to get a copy of the marriage details from the register fiche at the county records office.


Gwyn

Susan10146857

Susan10146857 Report 25 Sep 2009 17:31

Don't think so Daff.....but don't quote me on it.......oooo send us his name...if he was convicted he may be found in some newspapers.....They loved a good old trial in those days.

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Member since 2003

Jac

Jac Report 25 Sep 2009 17:36

Gawd Daff - how lucky are you to have found a marriage......... bigamous or not in the 1860's? ))))

I have a strange feeling in me water that me grandad (who was a wandering thespian) might have had a previous wife/family or two about the country before his final "official" one - but he was wily enough not to enter into holy matrimony as far as I can tell.

I dont see why the records would be destroyed, cos if he was convicted of the crime, then probably the records were merely amended to show the fact?

xxxxx

Liz 47

Liz 47 Report 25 Sep 2009 19:29

On the l86l census my great great grandparents were married with two children. My great great grandfather was a Royal Marine.

1871 - my great great grandmother states she is a widow.

1877 - my great great grandmother remarries - I have a copy of the marriage cert.

1878 - my great great grandfather is discharged from the Royal Marines, and in l88l is married to someone else.

Bigamy in OUR family??????

Liz

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Dad and Aunty Dolly with Grandad WW1

Jac

Jac Report 25 Sep 2009 19:31

I'd rather think that they had very poor memories! ))))

Jac xxx

MrDaff

MrDaff Report 25 Sep 2009 19:46

lolol.... I love it, and thank you everyone for your ideas, lolol..... This guy may well have been for real, and not just a smoke screen on his son's marriage certificate.... Susan, it is the descendant of the First Fleet convict, lololol but he is not the bigamist, I think that might be his gt grandson? Oh, and his *wife* may have been a relative.... same name!!

I so lurve this branch of the family, lolol... they are so wicked interspersed with some really tragic stuff.... I have wept buckets over them!

Love

Daff xxxx