Comments on: Two Weddings and a Funeral – https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/two-weddings-funeral/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-weddings-funeral Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia Fri, 21 Dec 2018 05:01:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nan Bailey https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/two-weddings-funeral/#comment-12243 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:25:04 +0000 https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/?p=4770#comment-12243 In reply to Moya Sharp.

Yes it is and getting more complicated the more I find out. I had a lot of help from various people in the Middlesex discussion group on Roots Web. The discussion groups are very quiet now, but have extremely helpful members. Also, you can go back years in the archives to search for snippets on your family

]]> By: Moya Sharp https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/two-weddings-funeral/#comment-12232 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:15:37 +0000 https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/?p=4770#comment-12232 In reply to Nan Bailey.

Wow that is certainly complicated, amazing you have managed to unravel it all.

]]> By: Nan Bailey https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/two-weddings-funeral/#comment-12163 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 06:18:12 +0000 https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/?p=4770#comment-12163 I also have such a marriage in my tree. My Great great Grandfather Samuel Bennett Ross married Sarah Ann Godfrey in supposedly April 1834 at Shoreditch, Middlesex. Sarah died in the March quarter of 1853 and Samuel Ross married her younger sister, my Great Great Grandmother Elizabeth Adelaide Godfrey on 3 June 1854. I found out this year that they were sisters not cousins as I had been told and this was confirmed with finding London newspaper articles of the story of Samuel Bennett Ross being charged in court for not providing for the support of his younger children from his second marriage and that his second wife was unaware that her marriage was illegal.

There are still many mysteries in this to be unravelled including what happened to Samuel Bennett Ross. I cannot find his death. Was he imprisoned? The search goes on.

]]> By: Anne Young https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/two-weddings-funeral/#comment-12157 Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:14:01 +0000 https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/?p=4770#comment-12157 Marrying your deceased wife’s sister was not allowed under the Anglican Curch and English law until 1907 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deceased_Wife%27s_Sister%27s_Marriage_Act_1907

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