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Re: Last chance saloon?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 07 July 11 14:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Steve (+ others)

We have looked in many Parish Registers in Hull & Sculcoates for this marriage and have come up with nothing. There is a chance they were married elsewhere (Whitby for example) but nothing has shown up to date.

I know they were in Hull from March 1876 onwards.

On her children's birth certs they show her surname as formerly: Moss, Richards, Allison (this was her birth name - Ann Elizabeth Allison).

A clue might be found if anyone can find out what happened to Oliver Richards - he seems to have vanished completely after 1871 census.

She also married again (after the death of James Bibby in 1883) - to James Beckett in 1893 and that certificate names her as Bibby and says she is a widow...could be a fib of course....

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Re: Last chance saloon?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 07 July 11 17:07 BST (UK) »
Hi Paul
Have you tried Yorkshire trade directories between 1870 and 1880?
Looking for Oliver Richards and/or James Bibby around Hull/Whitby area.
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Re: Last chance saloon?
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 07 July 11 20:03 BST (UK) »
We've tried some but I can't remember for which dates.
I will mention it as another possible source.

Oliver Richards was a fisherman so it could be he was lost at sea, or travelled to another port and just "disappeared"!

Both James and Elizabeth were in Hull in March 1876 and she was last seen prior to that in Whitby in April 1871 (census) married to Oliver Richards. Something between these two dates is the key to the mystery!
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