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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #90 on: Saturday 01 August 15 16:17 BST (UK) »
Is it me -- or did these people move on darn quickly after the death of a 'supposed' loved one!!!

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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #91 on: Saturday 01 August 15 16:41 BST (UK) »
If you mean the speed at which they remarried, it was a matter if survival. Men needed women to care for the children while he worked, women need men to support them and their children. No government dolling out benefits, only the workhouse if they had no other means of support.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #92 on: Saturday 01 August 15 16:53 BST (UK) »
If you mean the speed at which they remarried, it was a matter if survival. Men needed women to care for the children while he worked, women need men to support them and their children. No government dolling out benefits, only the workhouse if they had no other means of support.

That's very true, Jebber. I remember being slightly shocked at discovering my Aunt Nelly had remarried just a year after her husband had been killed in WW1. But she had three children to support and how would she work with three young children? Her only option was to remarry.

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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #93 on: Saturday 01 August 15 17:20 BST (UK) »
I've got 3 close but long ago ancestors (all men) who married again within 10 weeks!

One was understandable (handful of young children), though i was surprised when i first found out about it, but one had only 1 child (a girl aged 12), and the other, a man of 60 with grown up children, married a 28 year old spinster, had 4 children (the first died early) in quick succession then died of 'general decline' leaving her with 3 young children.
CARDIFF:Lord,Griffiths,Barry,Cope,Mahoney ~ PEMBROKESHIRE:Griffiths,Rees,Owen,Thomas ~ ESSEX:Lord,Foreman,Hatch ~ SOMERSET:Lord,Cox,Hockey,Linham,Bryant ~ STAFFORDSHIRE:Cope,Elks,Hackney,Gallimore,Davenport ~ SUFFOLK:Lord,Lockwood,Hatch,Rix,Foreman ~ IRELAND:Barry,Meany,Cummins,Grogan ~
PONTYPRIDD:Leigh,Brooks,Adams,Davies,Thomas ~ KENT:Leigh ~ CHESHIRE:Adams,Tudor,Illidge ~ DENBIGHSHIRE:Edwards,Bolas ~BRECON:Leigh,Thomas,Davies ~SOMERSET:Adams,Keitch,Bridge ~ABERGAVENNY:Minton ~ MERTHYR:.....


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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #94 on: Saturday 01 August 15 18:02 BST (UK) »
I even know of people who had another wife lined up while their first wife was still alive if she was dying of a long illness.

Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #95 on: Saturday 01 August 15 18:11 BST (UK) »
My uncle by marriage's mother died giving birth to him. His father remarried within three months- to his dead wife's sister.
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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #96 on: Saturday 01 August 15 18:25 BST (UK) »
I even know of people who had another wife lined up while their first wife was still alive if she was dying of a long illness.

Yes I've known of this too.  Sadly it wasn't that long ago, only about 30 years, and the children were not that young.
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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #97 on: Saturday 01 August 15 20:17 BST (UK) »
I suppose it was stress of a dying spouse and probably as they had children, they found a new woman/man to marry once their current spouse was dead. Maybe a friend, neighbour, work colleague.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #98 on: Monday 03 August 15 15:11 BST (UK) »
I even know of people who had another wife lined up while their first wife was still alive if she was dying of a long illness.

I've even come across one chap having the banns read before the funeral!
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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