« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 13 February 08 22:12 GMT (UK) »
Thought this might be fit for here:
A WIFE PURCHASED. - On Wednesday last week, a couple appeared before the superintendent registrar at Bodmin, Mr. Elias H. LIDDELL, to be married, their banns having been previously called before the Board of Guardians. The registrar having heard that one of the parties was already married, considered it his duty to caution them, and told them if that were the case they were rendering themselves by a second marriage liable to transportation. The man then produced a certificate from another man, who was the husband of the woman before the registrar, stating that he (the man who now appeared to be married) had purchased his wife of him for £1; but of course the registrar could not regard this document as conferring legality on such a proceeding, and he therefore refused to marry the parties, who went away apparently much disappointed. The husband who had sold his wife was one of St. Germans, and the man that purchased her is a navvy living in the neighbourhood of Bodmin.
Flintshire - Hughes, Price, Simon, Messham, Griffiths, Powell, Tattum, Eaton, Roberts, Pownall, James, Enion
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