Hi Geoff
NOTEA Decree of ? Divorce at the insistance
of the said J S R Bremner was pro:
by the Lords of Council & Session
on 16th . Extraced on 26th Feby 1848
conf extract produced ...siding
& Declaring that she is loosed acquit
ed & freed of the marriage betwixt her
& the said Soter Drelinkiewicz & that it is
lawful for her to marry any other free person
whom she pleases in the same
manner as if she had never been
married, or as if the said Soter Drelinkiewicz
were dead.I'm not yet convinced that the right Adam has been found. We could be looking at three different Adams !!!
I looked at the transcription of the 1841 Census on FreeCEN:
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5a151daff4040b9d6e29f447/adam-grzybouski-1841-midlothian-st-cuthbert-s-1816-?locale=enUnder occupation the transcript says "Government Allowance", not doctor. Have you seen the original? I wonder what government? Regarding the ages, in the 1841 Census ages were supposed to be rounded down by five year intervals, so don't read too much into apparent discrepancies. In 1851 Maria is shown as 43, and her parents as 75 and 66 (25, 60 & 50 respectively in 1841).
It's odd that Maria would be a dress-maker in the 1851 Census if her husband was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a freemason. Where is Maria in 1861? What was her marital status then?
I do not know whether there are signatures on the marriage between Adam and Maria, but if so it would be good to compare Adam's signature with the later marriage found in London.
The Ł2 sent to the known Adam came from Karol Sienkiewicz who was the joint founder of the Polish Library in Paris and was the private secretary of Prince Adam Czartoryski. Many emigrated from Poland after the Uprising of November 1830, especially those who had been in the Polish army. Did I read somewhere that Adam's occupation was given as something to do with the army on one of his children's marriages? If he was friends with Soter, another army chap then it would make more sense for him to be army as well, rather than a doctor. They both seem to have disappeared around the same time...
Adam the doctor who was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons was recorded in their Calendar as resident in Berlin until at least 1888.
Looking forward to the information from the Edinburgh Lodge!
Gaie