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Hi Colin:
My best guess is that neither Louisa nor Enoch died. Divorce was not an option. So they quietly married again and either nobody noticed or there was sufficient tolerance for this kind of thing. Enoch married Mary Ann Cross and Louisa married Joseph Webb who may have been a cousin. It's possible that Louisa's mother was Sarah Webb.
Best wishes, Irene

Well, now I can't just find where I saw Louisa's death but Enoch and his new wife Mary Ann Cross are on the 1861 census with (apparently) her daughter Mary Alice Cross aged 6. They married in the March Quarter of 1856 in Stourbridge. None of these places are in my patch and so I'm not familiar with the significance of the registration districts versus the actual place of marriage. So I might have Louisa's death date out a bit but she's gone by 1861 and no chance to name children with significant family names - not that there were any. There are 4 generations of William Southalls just to make things harder.
Unless we have a bit of bigamy going on here - surely not! Could the 2 marriages be for the same Louisa Southall with the same glassblower father William. I'm clutching at straws. I need to lie down in a quiet place and think some more.
Thanks very much Colin - I'll keep on with this one.
Regards, Irene

Thanks so much Colin. I can't believe I missed this one. I have been searching a lot on FreeREG for Worcestershire church records and so far found nothing relevant. I must have missed checking it for this one. It's looking good that this is the one I want. I'm very pleased with this - thanks again.
Regards, Irene

Hello David:
As I mentioned before - shortage of surnames does make this more complicated. My William EVANS was baptised at Llangwm, Denbighshire in 1734. He was the son of Evan ROBERT and Elizabeth MORRIS. He married Gwen DAVIES at Llanfor, Merionethshire in 1758 by licence and his marriage bond states that he was of Llanycil so he had presumably already moved there. I believe that Evan ROBERT purchased Fedw Arian sometime during William's childhood.

William's life is summarised in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography - see https://biography.wales/article/s-EVAN-WIL-1734?&query=william%20evans&searchType=nameSearch&lang[]=en&sort=sort_name&order=asc&rows=12&page=1

So I don't think that he can be the same one who went to Pwllheli.

Actually, I do have a marriage bond for William's half sister Hannah EVANS on her 2nd marriage at Llanycil in1784. In summary: Griffith THOMAS of Coed Corlion in Llanfawr, yeoman and bachelor to Hanna EVANS of Fedw Arian in Llanycil, widow. Bondsman was Evan EVANS. Both Evan and Griffith signed.

So it does happen but I take your point. It's probably pretty unusual. I must have got lucky with that one.

Thanks for getting in touch. There are quite a few of William's descendants with DNA tests on Ancestry but this might be too far back for enough in common to show up.

Regards, Irene

Thanks for the marriage info. Elizabeth's father was William Evans - a well-known Calvinist preacher. So this seems possible at least, even though there are lots of other William Evanses in the parish. I would still like to know what the bond and allegation says. I'm not sure that the marriage bonds are available away from the Library. Perhaps someone with a reader's ticket might know?

And it's interesting though very disappointing that the Llanycil marriages are missing from FindMyPast. I wonder why.

Elizabeth re-marries in Devonport in 1804 so presumably Hugh Pugh dies. I haven't been able to locate an obvious burial for him in Llanycil or adjacent parishes. And not in Devonport either. Nor have I found any children for this couple though Elizabeth was already the mother of an illegitimate daughter Anne Frances before she married Hugh.

Thanks for the help,
Irene