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Thank you all so much for this information. Bartolemi certainly did have an interesing life. I came to him because I was intrigued by the wording of William Potter's [my great great grandfather by marriage] will. In it he states that if his daugher Annie's husband shall be living at William's death, then she is not to inherit absolutely but to receive monies by way of a trust. There were two daughters, Annie and Elizabeth. It was Elizabeth who was part of my family but both of the girls seem to have absentee husbands. The date death of Elizabeth's husband has not yet been established despite much seeking. In an idle moment I thought I would check up on Annie's husband and found she was second husband to Bartolemi Fabronius. From there I followed his life with much amusement and laughed out loud when I read the newspaper report.
I imagined that Ethelberga was a maligned wife, and the fact that Bartolemi married again four years later while Elizabeth/Ethel was still alive interested me. I can now see that he would want to make a new life without her.
Now of course I shall have to find out more about her.
All the clues you have collectively supplied will be a great help in my next step on the way.

Re Wivenhoe question, see my replies above. Thank you.

There were 3 children, Mary Jane born 1855 died aged 4 hours,  James born 1856 died 8 months and William born 1853 wh survived and was brought up by Eleanor's sister, Margaret Bridgewood later Miller. The only later information I have about Eleanor is in 1861 when she is an assistant nurse at Newcastle Infirmary. In the records I have post 1851 she always calls herself Palmer.
When Mary Jane was born in 1855 the family were living at Felling shore. In 1853, William was born in Gateshead.

I am researchng James Palmer who died on 20th June 1856 at 49 George Street Westgate Newcastle. The death certificate states that he was 30 years old.
James was the father of a number of children by Eleanor Bridgewood although I have not found a marriage entry. I cannot find a James Palmer in either the 1841 or the 1851 census for Newcastle so I have not made much progress. James has a son, also called James, who was born and died in 1856.
I was hoping to find some sort of burial record which might give me some information about him.
Without a marriage certificate it is not easy to find his parents names. The later family were all workers in the steel works.
I have tried Freecen and all the big sites for information. It may be that James was not his birth name but I have tried variations and still come up with nothing.
I really do not know where else to look and any suggestions would be welcome.
Thank you.

Thanks. Weddings were obviously very different then to todays extravaganzas.