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The one thing that would scupper this is that on the death cert for Ann Henning 19th May 1880 she is given as wife of Charles Henning a shipping clerk. If he had disappeared some 15 years or so earlier why would he be noted on the death cert? seems unlikely.....
I think you might find that it was quite shameful in previous centuries to have to admit your husband left you. On the other hand he might have convinced his wife that the only job he could secure with the shipping company was as a clerk in the USA and had been sending money back to England.
I have one aunt who told the family her OH had died during WWII sailing on an arctic convoy. He signed on as a cook although was a surgeon and had actually been in the navy during WWI. I knew the name of the ship but research showed it plied betwwen Britain and the Mediterrnean Sea. He actually died in a London hotel after mistakenly taking too many tablets, according to the enquiry.
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