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From: "Jan Paton" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Different Father - explanation?
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:34:15 -0000
References: <3e.2c52eac9.2b8943b0@wmconnect.com>


Hi

I have 2 cases in the same generation of the same family
where a woman 'married' her husband's brother. In one case
the original husband died soon after the marriage and the
wife 'married illegally' in London (don't know where yet!)
and in the second case I'm not sure they 'married' at all,
but were shown in the next Census as being husband and wife.

Jan
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Subject: Re: [Lon] Different Father - explanation?


> What was the status of her mother on the 1901 census?
Married or widowed?
> You say your Grandmother was orphaned at age 4- so I
assume you mean her
> mother died as well?
> Is it possible Samuel died sometime before her birth, and
perhaps she did in
> fact have a different father from the rest of her
siblings? (coincidentally
> with the same surname) One never knows- a brother-in-law
comforting and
> assisting the grieving widow left alone with 9
children....of course one
> could speculate endlessly.
>
> Perhaps a search for the death of Samuel is in order?
>
>
> In a message dated 2/22/03 3:06:12 PM Eastern Standard
Time,
> writes:


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