'The missing' Stephen Feening

[majm]

May I add to Sue's speculations ...

I wonder if there would be medical records noting he may have become vision impaired… perhaps long after the following incident … or perhaps the horse drawing the carriage that he put his bride into may have spooked Stephen flashing back memories to the horse and whip incident that is detailed in the following cutting:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/101355198 Nepean Times 9 Nov 1901.   

JM

[rosball]

A transcription of the marriage certificate may reveal something, such as a shared residential address.

Sue

There is a marriage certificate in the divorce papers, Sue.   It doesn't seem to reveal anything.
I'll try to add a snip.

Ros

[sparrett]

A transcription of the marriage certificate may reveal something, such as a shared residential address.

Sue

There is a marriage certificate in the divorce papers, Sue.   It doesn't seem to reveal anything.
I'll try to add a snip.

Ros

I had not realised the certificate was included in the file.

Interesting news item from JM.
I would be surprised if there was not a permanent effect on the eyesight from that mishap.

Sue

ADDING a linked copy or snip  of the certificate would be interesting, if possible. Ros.

[rosball]

Marriage certificate snips

Ros

[Weyman_85]

Selina was expecting, or thought she was expecting a baby .
There is not a birth record that I can locate, but as we sadly know, not all pregnancies reach full term.
Or
The couple already had an exnuptial child.

Stephen was not prepared to take on married life, but elected matrimony to make and honest women of Selina. There may have been family pressure from either side.
As soon as the paperwork was completed, he disappeared.

Sue

Perhaps, we'll never really know. I know there was no child out of wedlock. My family is full of unwed mothers so I doubt she would have been shamed here. I've also been made aware of her life and character and if there was a child there, with or without a husband, she would of hung on to them. She could of however, thought she was pregnant. You're right. The divorce court papers are lengthy but we know they didn't live together. The night he disappeared he told Selina he was going into Sydney to see about a home. She went home to her grandparents (her own parents are dead by now) and he went and stayed at his fathers. If they'd shared an address you would think one or both of them would have retreated there on their wedding night? Oh the mystery!!

[Weyman_85]

I wonder if there would be medical records noting he may have become vision impaired…

JM

Hi JM I haven't found any medical records but I'll keep looking. When they put a warrant out for his arrest, they added a description of what he looked like. There was no mention of part blindness or obvious eye injuries (doesn't mean he wasn't vision impaired but leads me to believe it wasn't obvious).

Sel

[rosball]

I have checked the death notices for some other siblings in case one was closer to Stephen.   However none of these mention any brothers or sisters.

Ros

[Weyman_85]

Police description...

[Weyman_85]

I have checked the death notices for some other siblings in case one was closer to Stephen.   However none of these mention any brothers or sisters.

Ros

Ros - you've given me an idea here! John Feening (Stephen's father) and May Martha (sister) were clearly very close. John left her everything in his final will as well as leaving her in charge of his affairs even though he had numerous children still alive including a handful of sons. I wonder if any of May's children are still around and remember her speaking about her past... hmmmm!