Francis & Mary Ann Smith (Nee' Spink), Vanished after Marriage!

[StanleysChesterton]

It's been suggested to you they emigrated - and I've seen this in my tree.  I was super-lucky though.....

I found a 19 year old girl who got married right before Xmas and then emigrated to Aus.  I did feel very sorry for her, being dragged half way round the world at her age.... but I didn't have to go looking for her to discover her fate because when I googled her name up popped a Trove.au article where the newspapers had visited/interviewed her as she'd gone on to live to 84 and the article gave her whole life story, so I knew what'd happened.  She eventually died aged 91.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/168169228

They'd said where she came from, who she'd married, when she'd arrived, and everything - so I had the full life story delivered on a plate.  Without that I'd have simply left her on the chart as (DISAPPEARED) as some people aren't of as much interest as others and they were my GG-grandmother's brother/his wife (13 children, so a lot of brothers/wives and associated people on the tree)

You needed to be married to get into the programmes of emigration probably - and for your families to let you go traipsing around to new countries, and probably the new countries wanted nice/married/solid people.  So you'd get a marriage, followed by a disappearance.

[Wiggy]

You needed to be married to get into the programmes of emigration probably - and for your families to let you go traipsing around to new countries, and probably the new countries wanted nice/married/solid people.  So you'd get a marriage, followed by a disappearance.

Definitely not - lots of young women arrived on 'bride ships' to try to even up the genders in the colony.  Don't know about America though.

But that's getting away from the topic, as David's people were married.