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The Common Room / Re: Presumed dead
« on: Sunday 03 November 19 18:11 GMT (UK)  »
Oh, wow. I can't believe all the help I've been offered and information given that I hadn't realized. Thank you, everyone, especially stanmapstone who quoted a point of English law on the matter. I now have a better understanding of how mu g-grandma managed to remarry without producing a death certificate. :D :D

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The Common Room / Re: Presumed dead
« on: Sunday 03 November 19 01:01 GMT (UK)  »
Applying for birth and marriage certificates is definitely my next option. The lady was married 3 times and I have her other two marriage certificates but not the relevant one for her second husband.

Thank you to everyone for offering advice.

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The Common Room / Re: Presumed dead
« on: Sunday 03 November 19 00:13 GMT (UK)  »
He and his (apparent)second wife appear on various US census through to 1930. There is also a death certificate record in1939 but his surname, Doyle, was a rather common name. I haven't personally pursued his history this is information from other researchers.

I have records of registration for the birth of all the children. The father is not named on the latter two documents.

If there is a separate record dept for 'declared' deaths I might be able to clear this mystery. ::)

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The Common Room / Re: Presumed dead
« on: Saturday 02 November 19 22:44 GMT (UK)  »
G-grandma married in1898 and had a son in 1899. They and their son are recorded on the 1900 US census living in Dunbar, Fayette, Pennsylvania. She (minus hubby) and their son were back in England by July 1901 where the birth of their daughter (my grandmother) was registered. She remarried in 1908 having had a third child and expecting a fourth, both to her second husband. It is because of the seven-year wait that I suspect she had no evidence of her first husband's death. 

If other people's research is correct g-grandma's first husband re-married in 1904 in Bonanza, Sebastian, Arkansas.

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The Common Room / Re: Presumed dead
« on: Saturday 02 November 19 21:56 GMT (UK)  »
Family folklore has it that she was unaware of her husbands death until after her return to England. However, the fact that, in an era when such things were frowned upon, she was expecting her second child to another man before she remarried leads me to think that disputes that she was ever informed of a death.

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The Common Room / Presumed dead
« on: Saturday 02 November 19 21:41 GMT (UK)  »
My g-grandmother remarried 7 years after returning to England from America without her husband. Would she have had to go through a legal process to declare her first husband died and would there be an official record separate to the 'normal' death records?

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