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here is a photo, postcard, of Croft House Arnside.  It was posed in 1913.

The temp navvy town of Klondyke at Heysham (1898 - 1904) was actually situated at the very back corner of Heysham Golf Club.  From the lane that runs round the back of the golf club off Trumacar lane you can make out some of the bumps where the foundations were.  Heysham Heritage Centre on Main Street in Heysham Village are the most likely to have information on both Klondyke and Dawson City (they have a webpage)- Jackie

Hi - in 1959 my late m-in-law applied to remarry after her husband had been 'absent' for over seven years.  She had to apply to the court and she also had to place adverts to find him in local and national papers for three consectutive week ( that is local to the last place where she knew he was).  In her case it was agreed - but strangely this was the 2nd time she went through this process - she married 4 times!

In  1942 her 1st husband had been captured and held prisoner in Burma.  He was after seven years presumed dead by the War Office and she remarried.  However, he wasn't dead and returned to find his wife had remarried, his parents had died, the house he lived in had been sold and he nad a young son.  Amazingly he remained sane and married again himself. 

So yes it is legally possible - but most people didn't go though that - they simply went to a church or register office and lied - as in the case of my grandfather and father who both married bigmaously - one in the church (twice) and the other in the register office - the years were 1917, 1926 and 1961.  Jackie

following Emms thought and Herberts later connection with Tyldesley - there is a Herbert Jennings b. 1883 who is a visitor on the 1891  census at Alfred Street, Tydesley. Jackie