Your Genealogy Claim to Fame?

[pinefamily]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Desert

[Beeonthebay]

The 2nd husband of 1st cousin 8x removed was Joseph Peyton, Captain RN in HMS Defence, and in the Battle of the Nile, August 1798 ... so sailed in battle with Nelson.

Her first husband John Williams, an ordinary wealthy bloke from Exeter, got divorced from her, Elizabeth Melhuish my 1st cousin 8x removed, through the House of Lords ... Williams's Divorce Bill ... February 1783, Mrs Williams accused of adultery with Captain Peyton in Exeter ... and of course she was much vilified in the press in the days and months after.  much airing of dirty linen by the servants was done, in the House of Lords, to achieve the desired outcome.

The marriage record in the parish register (1774 Withycombe Raleigh, Devon) is noted "divorced" on the left in another hand.

And Elizabeth and Joseph married promptly a few months later and lived ?happily? ever after at Wakehurst Place, Sussex, now a National Trust house and Kew's garden in Sussex. 

Salute,

Janelle

A happy ending we hope  

I've read some divorce papers recently and boy do they make interesting reading!!  The maid saw this and that and tells the master and it's always the adulterous woman of course and the husband seems to keep the children, well they do on those I've read so far.

[KGarrad]

I've read some divorce papers recently and boy do they make interesting reading!!  The maid saw this and that and tells the master and it's always the adulterous woman of course and the husband seems to keep the children, well they do on those I've read so far.

Until The Matrimonial Clauses Act (1937) a woman could not use adultery as a grounds for divorce (in England/Wales)!
Women required additional offences to adultery such as cruelty, incest or sodomy.

[pinefamily]

It was certainly a man's world, wasn't it?

[pharmaT]

It was certainly a man's world, wasn't it?

Still is to a greater  extent

[..claire..]

I'll say 

[Rainbow Quartz]

MrQ is a big Manchester United fan, and told me that Jesse Lingard, one of their players, is from Warrington, where I was born. I have one of my distant relatives, surname North, marrying a Lingard, and wondered if there was a connection. Guess what? On Jesse's Mum's birth record, her mother's maiden name is given as North! Not verified this yet, but if correct, my Great grandad is Jesse's GG grandad!

[pinefamily]

MrQ is a big Manchester United fan, and told me that Jesse Lingard, one of their players, is from Warrington, where I was born. I have one of my distant relatives, surname North, marrying a Lingard, and wondered if there was a connection. Guess what? On Jesse's Mum's birth record, her mother's maiden name is given as North! Not verified this yet, but if correct, my Great grandad is Jesse's GG grandad!

 I'll bet Mr Q is happy about that.

[Rainbow Quartz]

MrQ is well impressed!