Hello Carol, nice to hear your voice again - we had a nice conversation going a few months back.
Both of the marriages you mention were a leetle bizarre.
PJAL (or APJL) did marry Catherine Grandjean, daughter of Michael Grandjean "civil officer" - whatever that is - in 1855. It took place in the Royal Bavarian Chapel in St. James, Westminster. That doesn't mean that either of them was Royal or Bavarian. I understand that Catholic marriages were still not often publicly celebrated in London at the time, and that this private chapel, attached to the Bavarian embassy, was a discreet locale (foreign soil even) used for that purpose; it was certainly used for public worship. At the time, PJAL was a humble machinist, and eventually died in a poorhouse.
The strange thing is that there is no further trace of Catherine Grandjean that I've been able to find, and 20 months later PJAL had the first of 8 children by Julia Piguet, daughter of a protestant Swiss hotel porter. That first child was my great grandfather Charles Leon Leleux.
The 1832 wedding between Joseph Leonard Leleux of South Hackney and Eliza Bigg of Bethnal Green is also unusual, in as far as he had to apply to the Vicar General at Lambeth Palace for a licence to marry. I don't know what that was all about. Maybe his or her parents disapproved (but both were over 21) - or perhaps there was some dispute as to whether they were legally entitled to marry. Any one else come across that?
Anyway, my Leleux antecedents continue to baffle me.
Best wishes from Labour Day weekend in sunny Toronto, and thanks for your past help,
John
