An Intriguing Marriage Certificate

[Rowan Tree]

Hi,

I've got an intriguing marriage certificate:

29/07/1889
St. John the Baptist, Halifax, Yorkshire
Wellington ELLIS to Eliza Jane CROWTHER

Wellington had been married before as follows:
09/11/1872
Christ Church, Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire
Wellington ELLIS to Alice HASPEY (aka Alice ASPEY)

A married Alice ELLIS (nee ASPEY) appears as a witness at her sister's wedding:
24/12/1872
Christ Church, Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire
Samuel BARNETT to Elizabeth HASPEY (aka Elizabeth ASPEY)

After the December 1872 marriage, I can't find any trace of Alice. It doesn't appear that she had a child, and I can't find her death/burial.

Her husband, Wellington ELLIS appears on the 1881 census, living with his parents. He's recorded as "unmarried." Then Wellington gets married in July 1889. On his second marriage certificate he's recorded as a widower. What I'm finding intriguing and what I'd like help with deciphering, is what else is faintly wrote on the marriage certificate around Wellington's condition when marrying (see attached image).

And if anyone has any suggestions as to what may have happened to Alice, that'd be great.

Many thanks,

Rowan Tree 

[Rowan Tree]

Part of the 1889 marriage cert.

[mckha489]

I think I see in the very faint bit

“She also committed Bigamy”

 the bit immediately after wife might be “said to be Quite deceased” But I am not as convinced about that.

[PatLac]

She died Alice Aspey according to this tree.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LD54-8TX

Maybe the marriage was annuled?

[sparrett]

I see
Wife not found.
..... to be dead.

I agree with- she also committed bigamy-
Sue

[mckha489]

She died Alice Aspey according to this tree.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LD54-8TX

Maybe the marriage was annuled?

There was an Alice Aspey baptised Warrington 1850. I think that death is likely to be her.
Parents Thomas & Ellen Aspey

(I presume OP's Alice Aspey was born Yorkshire)

[sparrett]

Records show towards the end of her life, the single woman who died at Warrington Hospital according to the online tree, did not have a complete birthdate known.

I agree with mckha489, she is not likely to be the missing wife.

Sue

[maddys52]

I don't have access to the article, however there is a mention of Alice ELLIS under the title "A Postman's Divorce" in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph 3 December 1887. 

Modified to add:
found it now, unlikely to be yours, as I think occurred in Norwich. Alice ELLIS was part of the divorce case in George Albert SMITH and Alice Maria CHAMBER.

[mckha489]

I don't have access to the article, however there is a mention of Alice ELLIS under the title "A Postman's Divorce" in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph 3 December 1887. 

Nothing usefully identifying

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/ded3990e-579a-4be6-82da-29154e90f59b

Another article describes as a girl (still a woman of the town)