A REAL Challenge for you all.

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Mike

Are there any other clues on Harriet's marriage certificate? Witnesses perhaps?

Isobel

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PS Just to throw another thought into the system. I have one ancestor who was married 3 times. On her first certificate she was listed as spinster (correctly I presume) with her correct father. Her second certificate was consistent - widow now, with the same father.

On her 3rd however she was listed as spinster and her father was given as the father of her 2nd husband!!

Isobel

[MikeGH]

Thanks Isobel - I really feel encouraged by that!!!

Mind you - I alos had one that threw me for a long time when it turned out she was married, widowed and remarried in under 18 months!

I thought that was good going even by the standard of some of todays so called celebrities.

Sorrry  - Re Harriet's Mariage Certificate - the witnesses actually enabled me to fully identify her Husband and his family which had been another absolute horror story - born illegitimate in Chorley Workhouse.

He was also totally absent from the '51 & '61 census.  LUCKILY his married sister was a witness which led me to his Mother and Step Father and so to him living under his step fathers name until he married - we MAY have the same scenario here!

His Mother married within 3 months of his birth to someone else in the workhouse so I am ASSUMING this was his natural Father.

Mike