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From: "Ann" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Marrying Brother's Wife?
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:55:26 +0100
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I think common sense must have prevailed eventually.
Who better to look after a family of young children than an aunt or uncle...
well ok they could still have turned into the proverbial wicked
step/mother/father.
But I guess in most cases the chances were less.
Also to marry someone you already knew... saves all that hassle of
"courting" a new lover, and lets face it, most of the time a hasty union,
would have come from some sort of necessity. In my families case, the second
marriage was 10 weeks after the sisters death, and a child was born 9 months
and 20 days after.
Ann
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Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [CHS] Marrying Brother's Wife?
>A local philanthropic millowner (Hugh Mason) married his dead wife's
>sister
> and, knowing that he would not have married a second time without it
> being
> legal, speculation was that he married abroad, but where?
>
> The answer came when the Guardian Newspaper Archive made its debut
> on-line.
> He even had his marriage announcement advertised in the newspaper. He
> had
> married by Special Licence of the King of Denmark at the Evangelical
> Church at
> Altona (now a suburb of Hamburg in Germany). Apparently this church
> frequently conducted such ceremonies - so if you had the money!!
>
> best wishes,
> GAY
>
>
>
> Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire
> gayandmike.co.uk
> tamesidefamilyhistory.co.uk
> ashtongrammar.co.uk
> www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk
> www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm
>
>
>
>
>
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