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From: "SUSAN" <>
Subject: Re: [SOG] Bigamous marriage - on record?
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:04:20 -0000


Bill,
Bigamous marriages still appear in the Civil Rgistration lists if they took
place. I have a Scotchmer who married three times, the 2nd and third times
after 1837 but the marriages were still listed in the ONS Marriage Indexes.
Have you tried the Times Index to see if any Court Case was reported?
I trust this is of use to you.
Kindest regards
Susan
Susan A Atkins
Seaforth, Lancashire L21 1BJ
GUILD OF ONE NAME STUDIES NO 1961
SCOTCHMER & LAKEMAN WORLDWIDE
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/t/k/Susan-A-Atkins/ (scotchmer ons)
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----- Original Message -----
From: Wilfred Gathercole <>
To: <>
Sent: 01 November 1999 21:36
Subject: [SOG] Bigamous marriage - on record?


> Another list carried an article quoted from The Guardian dated
> Monday 1 September 1986. In it was the following statement:
>
> <However, there is no legal power to remove a marriage certificate
> <from the books even when the marriage is invalid (bigamous for
> < instance). (Such a) marriage is voidable but one of the parties has
> < to go to court to void it.
> <Even then, the marriage would remain on the register.
>
> Could someone say whether this is correct, i.e. that a bigamous
> marriage, if it ever took place, would still appear in the index?
>
> My aunt was born c.1890 but we can find no trace of her birth
> record, or of the marriage supposed to have taken place between
> my grandmother and a man who turned out already to have a wife
> who was in a mental institution. Even so, mother and daughter
> appear in the 1891 census using his surname. If the quoted
> statement is correct then we can assume that the deception was
> discovered before any marriage took place but not before the
> "pledge of affection" had been given, which is what we now
> suspect. But could a register entry have been expunged?
>
> Bill Gathercole, York
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