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Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] Stenhouse and marriages.
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 02:35:15 EDT

In a message dated 8/4/01 2:07:05 AM GMT Daylight Time,
writes:


> . I would appreciate if someone could answer two questions. Firstly does
> anyone know where Stenhouse is or was.
> Secondly, was it a custom to, while married and having children with your
> wife, to have another spouse (probably not married) and have another set
> of children with her. This second set of 9 children were born interspersed
> with the other 9 children he had with his wife. One was in Glencairn and
> one was in Ayr.This was in the 1700 and I was wondering if this was a
> common or an uncommon event

Hi Jean
Stenhouse is now a southwestern suburb of Edinburgh.

Your proposition that one man had two families in the 1700 ..one in Ayr and
one in Glencairn would, I think, be very unusual. What makes you believe it
was the same man? I have come across bigamous marriages in the late 1800s and
it is probable that some men abandoned families and took a new wife,
especially if they emigrated abroad.

The idea is intriguing ....... how about giving us chapter and verse??

Irene

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