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Re: Marriage to older brother's widow - on BMD but not in probate a year later
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 11 September 14 23:49 BST (UK) »

I'm pretty much convinced, short of ordering up a copy of the 1869 marriage certificate (though plenty of lies on certificates), that Catherine Spear married both brothers and as Galium suggested brother William may well not have approved thus his handling the probate and John being officially noted as still a bachelor at death.

The certificate may well hold the answer. It would be interesting to see who the witnesses were.
As you say, there seems to be just the one Catherine Morcumb who fits and she married with that name so presumably no cover up.
William could have just taken charge and it was an error- that's something you may never know. They could have been separated by then. Who was the informant on the death certificate?

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